Does your flight make you feel sick?

Today we have been dealing with one holidaymaker who has recently returned from his Package Holiday in the Caribbean. He tells us that when he got on the flight, everything was OK but shortly after take-off, he began to feel unwell.  He was suffering with breathing difficulties and nausea and could not sit or stand.  The crew and his family helped him to the back of the plane where he was laid on the floor next to where the crew sit and close to an exit.  At no stage was he offered any medical treatment and he remained on the floor for the whole flight.

When he arrived in England, he was given some oxygen and later treated by his GP.

Several issues come to mind:

1. Was his condition due to fumes or contaminated air on the aircraft?
2. Were others also ill on the flight?
3. Why was he laid on the floor at the back of the aircraft?
4. Why was he laid close to an emergency exit - and allowed to remain there when the aircraft was landing?
5. Why did the crew not administer medical attention?
6. Did the pilot enter what had happened in the 'Mandatory Occurrence Report'?

With these facts you would have thought that the Safety Regulation Group of the UK Civil Aviation Authority would be interested; apparently not!  They have told this holidaymaker that what happened to him is not in their remit! 

Time methinks for those to wake up and smell the coffee - this was a serious health issue on a UK aircraft and if does not fall within their remit, whose responsibility is it to investigate this incident?

This holidaymaker is being closely advised by us, particularly on aircraft safety and aerotoxic issues!