Tiger Airways tells stranded passengers: Come back in three days

Monday, 27 Oct, 2009 0

MELBOURNE – More problems for Tiger Airways – or rather more problems for the budget airline’s passengers, according to a story in The Age.

Federal police were on hand to protect Tiger Airways staff when, on Friday, they told a planeload of Melbourne-bound passengers they would be stranded in Hobart for three days, the paper reported.

A Tiger Airways spokeswoman said the airline had not called in the police officers who are permanently stationed at the airport.

She said Tiger did not have any crew based in Hobart and when a cabin crew member became ill, he could not be replaced.

“We need a certain amount of cabin crew to fly each flight by law,” she said.

The spokeswoman said some of the 140 passengers had been able to re-book on flights leaving Saturday and Sunday but some were unable to fly until Monday.



 

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