Shuttle driver confused planes at Budapest Airport: hundreds of passengers could not fly
An airport shuttle driver confused the planes and took passengers to the Tirana flight instead of the Dubai plane. Later, they had to leave the plane but boarding the new passengers would have taken too much time. As a result, Wizz Air delayed the plane, so they could not fly home with hundreds of passengers from Dubai while hundreds of people remained stuck at Budapest Airport. According to one of the passengers in Dubai, they did not get any help from the Hungarian budget airline. Wizz Air denies the allegations.
Two hundred passengers stuck in Dubai and Budapest Airport
According to Blikk, more than two hundred passengers waited for their plane in Dubai, but Wizz Air informed them Friday afternoon that their aircraft would only take off on Saturday afternoon.
That is because an airport shuttle driver confused the planes at Budapest Airport and took the passengers of the Dubai flight to the Tirana plane. Thankfully, the crew and the passengers discovered the problem, but disembarking the plane and boarding the new passengers would have taken too much time. Furthermore, since the plane had to land in Larnaca due to the violent conflict in the Middle East, the crew would have run out of authorized work time.
Wizz Air denies
As a result, Wizz Air decided to cancel their Friday Dubai flight and postpone it to Saturday. However, according to passengers waiting for the pink-blue plane in Dubai, they did not offer help for the passengers waiting in Dubai. Therefore, he had to book a nearby hotel for Friday night.
Wizz Air denied those allegations. In their official statement concerning the issue, did not mention the driver’s error at the airport, but acknowledged that the boarding process took too much time in Budapest. The crew’s authorized working time would have ended before they reached Larnaca, so they decided to postpone the flight’s take-off.
Wizz Air added that they provided help for their passengers stuck in Budapest and Dubai. The company also apologized for the inconvenience.
Since Blikk wrote nothing more about the delayed flight, we assume the passengers came home yesterday afternoon.
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