Flight passenger hits out at ‘selfish covidiots’ after 200 forced to isolate

A FLIGHT from the Greek island of Zante after which almost 200 passengers were told to self-isolate after coronavirus cases were confirmed was “full of selfish ‘covidiots’ and an inept crew”, a traveller has said.

There are 16 cases of Covid-19 linked to people who took Tui flight 6215 to Cardiff on August 25, and officials know that seven of those cases were infectious or potentially infectious while on the flight, according to Dr Gwen Lowe, consultant in communicable disease control for Public Health Wales.

Stephanie Whitfield was on the Tui flight to Cardiff and described how passengers were not wearing masks correctly and just seemed to “disregard the rules”.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Lots of the people were wearing the masks underneath their noses or even underneath their chins.

“They were taking the masks off to talk to friends and they were going up and down the aisles to talk to their friends without their masks on.”

Asked about how the crew dealt with this, Ms Whitfield said she saw a crew member ask one woman to put her mask on, adding: “But the vast majority of people weren’t being spoken to.”

Ms Whitfield also told the BBC: “The flight was full of selfish ‘covidiots’ and an inept crew who couldn’t care less.”

A spokeswoman for Tui said: “The health and safety of passengers is always our priority... A full investigation is now under way as these concerns weren’t reported during the flight or before today.”