Originally Posted by Typhoonpilot

I can tell you that I have taken a dying man from JFK to DXB once and I will never do it again. The man had doctor notes and clearances, but the flight was a nightmare. We were in almost constant contact with Medlink and had a couple of onboard doctors looking after him the whole way. It wasn't fair to the other passengers for that man to be on the airplane.

Commercial airliners are not meant for dying people to be riding on. If a person has a terminal illness they need to go back to their home country much earlier in the process or pay for a dedicated air ambulance.

Korean most likely did the right thing in this case.

Typhoonpilot