Passengers Stage Sit In
I guess this shows that people can only be pushed so far before they get angry. The passengers on this flight had been delayed 3 hours before they left, and then were not told they would be landing in the wrong country and expected to take a 250 mile bus journey. With better customer care the same situation wouldn’t have been an issue.
More than 100 angry Ryanair passengers staged a sit-in in an aircraft cabin for several hours on Wednesday after their flight was diverted to Belgium.
The planes were diverted to Liege due to heavy fog conditions
The travellers, mostly French tourists returning from holiday in Morocco, were bound for Beauvais, in northern France.
But their flight - along with three other Ryanair flights - was forced to land in Liege instead.
Roughly 100 passengers on board ended up spending a total of eight hours on the plane before agreeing to leave.
Passengers told AFP that the flight had left Fez in Morocco three hours late but had been unable to land at Beauvais, some 85km (53 miles) north of Paris.
“The plane did not land in Beauvais but in Liege without warning. Consequently, we refused to leave the plane,” Mylene Netange told AFP.
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