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Passengers stage sit-in after 30-hour delay
Group refused to leave until carrier admitted flight was more than a day late
Passenger power rules – at least it did when 50 travellers refused to leave a delayed jet until they were compensated sufficiently.
The jet, operated by the French company Aeris, arrived in Paris more than 30 hours late on its flight from the Mexican resort of Cancun. The BBC News website reports that when the flight arrived at Paris’ Orly airport, some 50 of the 200 passengers on board refused to leave the plane.
A spokesman for the airport reportedly said: “Some passengers decided to form a group – they demanded 1,000 euros per person.” The carrier then sent a negotiator on to the plane, but the passengers still refused to leave until some seven hours after it landed – and only once the airline had produced a document admitting that the flight was more than 24 hours late.
The BBC website reports that the Aeris “passengers’ bulletin board”, presumably partly intended for disgruntled travellers to air their concerns, had been taken off line on Monday.
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