After hijacked flight for diarrhea, dog farts. When you say 'a flight of m..-."

Talk about flying off the handle... The media halfway around the world had just finished reporting the Tragicomic odyssey of Delta Airlines Atlanta-Barcelona flight., forced to turn back due to emergency-diarrhea (which evidently affected one of the passengers in an unstoppable and irrepressible manner), that the news reported another bizarre and repulsive episode that happened in the clouds.

Protagonist, despite himself, is a pair of New Zealand travelers who For hours she grappled with a farting dog. Gil and Warren Press had purchased two premium economy seats on a Singapore Airlines A380, hoping that the roomier seats and better quality catering would make their thirteen-hour flight between Paris and Singapore (the first leg of their journey home) more enjoyable.

They could not, however, foresee that they would find as their neighbor an elderly lady with her noisy, slobbery, farting little dog. "At first there was the gasp of breath. Then, when the board service started, the dog started drooling. It was obvious that he was under great stress," Gil Presses told the media.

A flight attendant offered the New Zealand couple to move to Economy, where the entire back row was free. The two held out for a few hours. But when the little dog began to emit repeated intestinal gas, they had no choice but to say goodbye to their seats in Premium Economy and move to the back of the cabin.

Upon arrival in Singapore, the airline offered the Presses a $125 voucher for KrisShop (Singapore Airlines' online 'store'), later increased to $200 for each.

But the couple rejected both, claiming that the amount did not even remotely reimburse what they had paid extra for Premium Economy, then finding themselves traveling for more than six hours in Economy, and demanded full compensation for the ticket price.

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