Mother Arrested After Complaining Her Daughter's Seat Was Covered in Vomit on Frontier Flight From Vegas

She continued: 'She jumped up to say "mom! My hands are wet." She smelled it. She says "this is vomit, mom". So we went to look. It was on the bag, all over her shirt, her hands.'

Swinney said she confronted the flight attendant over her failure to clean the seat.

The airline denies this and claims Swinney became abusive and this is when the crew called for back up from airport police who arrested the 53-year-old passenger.

Swinney added: 'I felt humiliated. I felt more bad that my child had to see me be handcuffed and taken away from her.'

Following her arrest, Swinney is facing a misdemeanor trespassing charge.

She is due to appear in court in Las Vegas in June.

Frontier Airlines has responded to the incident:

'During boarding of flight 2066 from McCarran International Airport (LAS) to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) last week, two passengers told the flight attendants that vomit was present in their seat area.

'The flight attendants apologized and immediately invited the mother and her teenage daughter to move to either end of the plane so that the seat area could be cleaned. The mother and daughter were also told that once boarding was complete they would be provided other seats if available.

'The daughter was also offered cleaning products and invited to use the lavatory to wash up. The mother was unsatisfied with the response and became disruptive. As a result, the flight attendants determined that the mother and daughter should be deplaned and accommodated on another flight.

'The mother refused, and following procedure, law enforcement was called. Law enforcement then requested that everyone deplane so that the mother and daughter could be removed allowing the aircraft to be re-boarded and depart. We apologized to our passengers for the inconvenience caused by the departure delay. The safety of passengers and crew is our top priority at Frontier.'

It basically comes down to who you want to believe in this situation. It is hard to imagine an airline handling this situation in any way other than doing their best to diffuse the situation and clean up the vomit. That said, this would not be the first time someone was handled disrespectfully and not given basic courtesies while on a flight.