Jordan Times (http://jordantimes.com/article/air-france-asks-passengers-for-refuel-cash-at-damascus-stop)

Interesting...

....and one of them is Fuel in the Bowser - especially when your destination is iffy.
Prober:sad:

Air France or Scare France? similar to scarebus as opposed to airbus

Story now confrmed by several credible sources (at least the DAM diversion part). Being rather intimately familiar with ops into he region, I must say I'm rather bewildered by the decision to divert to DAM - I would only have done that in a full emergency given present conditions there.

Larnaca is only a litte over 200 Kms from Beirut, and everyone flying into the region knows it as the last friendly port of call. I smell more in this story then a simple dversion. Did they linger over Beirut for too long and they did not even have reserves left for the hop back to LCA ? (That sounds too reckless to even contemplate...) Was LCA closed for some reason (sometimes it can have fog at dawn even in mid-summer) ?

In any case, will be interesting to hear some factual information if it ever gets out.

Prober & andrasz,
Just about says everything.

maybe some people left the plane at damascus? :oh: