Overnight at the Hotel 747-400
During the bad weather at LHR last week, an acquaintance of mine was left, along with the rest of the PAX, to sleep onboard the 747-400 of a major carrier while it was still at the gate due to cancellation.
Apparently both the flight crew and cabin crew left the aircraft at around 2.0am. leaving the PAX to 'fend for themselves' until 7.00am. the next morning when they were asked to leave the aircraft while it was cleaned and re-supplied.
She is obviously not a happy bunny and would like to know what the legal implications are, of leaving nearly three hundred passengers, many drunk, unsupervised, overnight aboard a parked aircraft.
She would also like to know the reason for the delay. The PAX were told by the flight crew at midnight that once the aircraft had been de-iced it could go. I had heard that by that time there was nothing going in or out of LHR due to runway closure.
Any answers anyone?
SoS