Travellers have previously been refused airline seats for being too fat or too drunk—and now we can add too smelly. An American flyer was ejected from a Jazz Air flight scheduled to leave Charlottetown, PEI, for Montreal on February 6th because his body odour was deemed too offensive. Passengers say the flight was delayed by about 15 or 20 minutes while airline employees first tried to isolate the man and then removed him when that did not clear the air. A spokesperson for Jazz, an Air Canada regional spin-off, confirmed that a man was “deplaned”, but would not divulge the reason because of privacy concerns. The man apparently caught a Jazz flight the next day. No word if he had cleaned up his act by then.
The Economist - Gulliver's Blog
For reference, that's a 500-mile flight.