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Etihad plane veers off Abu Dhabi runway in fog

Posted by: pm
31 Jan 2012
I was on that flight and no passengers were sent to hotels. We were not even given food or water and we were not informed what had happened or when we were going to fly home anytime
Posted by: Brian
3 Feb 2012
I was also on that flight. Nobody was sent to a hotel. We were left to wander around the airport trying to find out what was going on. We were sent from one terminal to another at least five times but were never given any idea when we would be taking off. It was chaos, absolutely no communication between the airport staff and no consideration for what the passengers were going through. It could easily have been far worse. The security staff seemed to have no idea what was going on and the Etihad staff spoke no Arabic so they couldn't communicate with them. It got to a point where something very dangerous could have happened.
Posted by: Brian
3 Feb 2012
I was also on that flight. Nobody was sent to a hotel. We were left to wander around the airport trying to find out what was going on. We were sent from one terminal to another at least five times but were never given any idea when we would be taking off. It was chaos, absolutely no communication between the airport staff and no consideration for what the passengers were going through. It could easily have been far worse. The security staff seemed to have no idea what was going on and the Etihad staff spoke no Arabic so they couldn't communicate with them. It got to a point where something very dangerous could have happened.




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