Airline passengers are becoming angry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11776062
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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 travellers, mostly French tourists returning from holiday in Morocco, were bound for Beauvais, in northern France.
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.

It instead landed in Liege at about 2330 local time but passengers only agreed to get off after 0330, with the bus leaving at 0430.

"The plane did not land in Beauvais but in Liege without warning. Consequently, we refused to leave the plane," Mylene Netange told AFP.

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

Perhaps they'd rather have crashed at Beauvais, then. Silly people. Why not get off the plane and stretch their legs until they could go on to their destination? Do they really dislike Belgium THAT much?

When I was on the way to Istanbul, Turkey while in the USAF in 1967, weather forced our Pan-Am plane to divert to Belgrade. I was traveling in uniform, but got off the plane, went into the airport and grabbed a snack in the transit area. I got lots of stares, too. Not many 20 year olds in USAF dress blues at that airport, I imagine. It was interesting. After a couple of hours, the weather at Istanbul improved and we continued on our way. :shrug: