Heroic 'Virgin Australia' Pilot Completed 6-Hour Flight with No Working Toilets, Passengers Pissing Themselves, Human Waste Spilling Onto Floor

ABC (AU) – Virgin Australia has apologised after passengers on a flight from Bali to Brisbane overnight were left without any working toilets during what one described as "a filthy, humiliating nightmare".

In a statement, Virgin said the flight took off with one rear toilet out of service but then the remaining two lavatories became unserviceable during the last one hour and 40 minutes of the flight.

However, passenger Aaron, who was on board Flight VA50, said the Boeing 737 departed Bali Thursday afternoon with only one working toilet, but it too broke down about halfway through the six-hour flight.

Many people will see this story and think, "shame on Virgin Australia". They'll probably call Virgin Australia negligent. They'll say that if you're going to embark on a 6-hour flight with one broken toilet, you better be sure as hell that your other two toilet are in pristine working condition. All of that criticism is fair. They were telling people to pee in bottles for christ sakes. Passengers were relieving themselves in toilets that were already filled to the brim with relief. This all sounds exceptionally disgusting. It was a serious health hazard. A violation of basic human rights. 

Aaron said human waste eventually leaked onto the floor.

The crew told us we would have to relieve ourselves in bottles or on top of whatever was already in the toilet," he said.

"Toilets quickly clogged and overflowed with human waste, urine, and used toilet paper. The stench spread through the aircraft, seeping onto the floor."

Had I been one of those Virgin Australia passengers returning from Bali (probably with my tail between my legs, because I watched one TikTok that said I could live like a king there for a few hundred dollars a month, so I was like "Fuck you friends and family! I just cracked the code to life!", only to blow all my money within half-a-year and be forced to move back to my parents in Ipswich) I would be upset too. 

But I would like to commend this pilot. Unless the plane I'm on is at serious risk of nosediving into the Outback and killing us all, there's pretty much nothing I'm not willing to sit through if it means I make it to my destination in time. "Getting there on time" is the only thing I care about on a flight. I'm flying to Rome for my honeymoon next Monday, and I would sign up for three mid-flight fist fights right now if it guarantees me a delay-free flight. So in this Virgin Australia no-working toilets situations, if I'm hypothetically given the following three options to choose from:

1. Getting on my plane on-schedule, and risk plugging my nose for a few hours to arrive on time

2. Being stuck in an Indonesian airport for an indefinite amount of time until the next plane is ready

3. Making an emergency pit stop at some airport in some middle of nowhere Australian territory for God knows how long until the airline comes up with a solution

I'll take my chances with the elderly woman next to me wetting herself mid-flight. 

Simple Flying – According to passengers who spoke with the publication, after the cabin crew announced that all lavatories would be out of service for the remainder of the flight, one elderly woman was unable to wait and suffered the humiliation of wetting herself in public.

I can shower when I get back to my parents. Well done pilot. Way to keep your eyes on the prize. As a passenger, I will accept my half-hearted apology. And I will bank my free "We're sorry!" flight for when I save up another couple thousand bucks and try my luck next year in Cambodia.