British Airways pilots and flight attendants were forced to stay in an orgy hotel in Milan when their normal layover hotel was full. The carrier’s outsourced travel desk blundered – intending to book crew into the four star Mo.om Hotel in Varese. Instead, they misentered the property and booked the Mo.om Motel, a sex motel where rooms rent by the hour.
Rooms at the hotel feature bondage beds and swing frames; mirrored ceilings; “human-dog” cages and leather harnesses; sex toys – and one of their rooms contained a spa bath moulded in the shape of a vagina.
While on property, crew reported a continuous 24-hour orgy in adjacent rooms (“moaning and groaning all day and night”), “suspicious fluids” in several rooms, plus prostitution and drug dealing in the parking lot.
Several of the crewmembers declared themselves “unfit to fly” the next morning from failing to achieve actual minimally-required rest, though the airline says flights out of Milan weren’t delayed as a result. According to the airline,
A small number of crew were moved to unapproved hotel rooms due to availability issues with our usual provider, without our knowledge. We are urgently investigating to prevent a repeat.
Unpleasant accommodations booked by an airline seems pretty standard, actually. It certainly is for passengers! easyJet is known for making passengers share rooms during overnight mechanical and crew delays – even male and female strangers sometimes must share a bed. Airlines are often very cheap when they’re providing rooms.
- Air Canada has sent a man and a woman, who didn’t know each other, to a hotel to share a room.
- Here’s American Airlines making three passengers sleep in the same room, they weren’t strangers but one had to sleep on the floor.
- A Chinese airline once made passengers stay in an S&M-themed hotel.
At the same time, maybe the outsourced travel desk just thought they were giving this crew what they wanted? An entire British Airways crew was nearly kicked out of a resort after a drunken fight, crew fabricated a mugging to cover up a wild night in Rio and a flight attendant was investigated for offering sex to passengers. And that was following a scandal in which several BA flight attendants were exposed by a colleague for having sex with passengers for money. BA crew antics at layover hotels are legion, as well.
Of course, these outsourced hotel desks are… outsourced for a reason, and BA is notoriously cheap. They’re currently cutting back on water for passengers!
During the pandemic things got so bad at the American Airlines hotel/limo desk for crew that flight attendants were sleeping in airports, unable to get through to the vendor. An orgy at the motel is better than that!
(HT: Paddle Your Own Kanoo)
A few years ago a TripAdvisor contributor recommended a ‘good value’ hotel in Mexico City. Our family was heading to Oaxaca, so I booked a series of rooms for our family at the hotel for our 48-hour interim stay in Mexico City The location was great, but the hotel…it was a “love hotel”. Suffice it to say that the teens in our family never let me live it down.
Surprisingly, there were other folks there who didn’t appear to be participating in “love”. I saw several groups who had come in on shopping sprees. Maybe they, too, were the victims of the TripAdvisor review.
Alternate theory: the crew members were unfit to fly after inviting themselves next door to engage in the festivities. I would expect all crew members to have earplugs for noisy accommodations if they actually want to sleep.
Bow Chicka Wow Wow…
If it were a close knit crew it wouldn’t make any difference what kind of hotel crew schedules book them into.
We never had those kinds of problems in the 60’s & 70’s, just saying.
Sounds like somewhere I need to check out next time in Milan!
@Maryland — Bahahaha!!
Unfit to fly, too exhausted to fly…all the same. Perhaps, they offered a little a role play to other patrons of the hotel with their uniforms. Lol.
Did anyone get pegged?