For Jennifer, a nervous flyer, the entire ordeal was horrifying, the couple told 9 Now – and it was another passenger who invited Jennifer to sit with her after cabin staff failed to offer to relocate them further away from the body, they claim.
‘When my husband turned around and said, “move, move”, I was pretty shocked and I said, “are they going to put her there?”,’ Jennifer said.
But they were further traumatised after being forced to sit next to the corpse for the remaining four hours of their flight transfer in Doha – and the couple say nobody from the airline has contacted them after their ordeal.
Cabin crew wrapped the body in blankets and left her on a seat, asking Mitchell and Jennifer to move along the row to make space.
‘Ms Colin booked tickets through Qantas and travelled with Qatar Airways, a fellow Oneworld Alliance carrier,’ a Qantas spokesperson said.
