Pissed-off passengers stage sit-in on Ryanair flight

[marmar]

BRUSSELS (AFP) – More than 100 angry Ryanair passengers sat in a dark cabin without food or water for four hours Wednesday, refusing to leave their plane after it was diverted to Belgium, authorities and passengers said.

The passengers, mostly French tourists who were supposed to land near Paris after returning from holidays in Morocco, refused to come out of the aircraft even after the crew had left it at the Liege airport in southern Belgium.

Reda Yahiyaoui, a business owner who was travelling with his wife, a two-month-old baby and a three-year-old, said the passengers had no water and the toilets in the plane were locked.

"The pilot left and he even left the cockpit door open," he said. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101117/ts_afp/belgiumirelandprotestairlinecompanyryanair

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wow! Those Europeans sure do know how to stage a protest!!!!

[midnight]

2. Private industries are proving that they can't serve the public.

[DrDan]

3. it was RyanAir, I believe, that wanted to charge for use of restrooms

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Good for them.

Ryanair knew all along that due to their delayed departure the destination airport would be closed and they would have to divert the flight. They should have arranged for busses to meet the diverted flight at the alternate destination to take the passengers to the original destination or nearby so that the passengers could get to whatever transpo they needed to get home as per the passengers original plans.