Passengers had to use bottles as toilets on flight to Brisbane

Virgin is grappling with the fallout of a disaster on board a flight from Bali to Brisbane, after all toilets malfunctioned mid-air and passengers were forced to improvise in humiliating conditions.

The ordeal unfolded on Thursday afternoon when Virgin flight VA50 departed Denpasar.

The rear lavatory was already out of service, but the six-hour Boeing 737 MAX 8 service was not delayed or cancelled due to limited engineering support in Bali.

Midway through the journey, the situation worsened when the remaining two toilets failed completely.

The rear bathroom was already out of service, but the remaining two toilets failed completely midway through the flight. / Supplied

“For the remaining three hours, the cabin crew informed us we would need to relieve ourselves in bottles or ‘on top