Chocks Wahay
Yep, in hindsight taking the pax off wasn't a good idea, but, in keeping with our desire to get all of our passengers to their destination, we made the decision and acted with the best interests of all of those passengers in nce on the two respective flights at heart. Had the shoe been on the other foot and those who refused to get off were the delayed nce-cdg sector passengers, I think they may have taken a different view.
Further, and I won't go into the detail, the engineering situation the Ops team was faced with was changing by the minute with crew duty times ticking away, had they all got off a delay of no more than 1.30 or there abouts was going to occur. But no blame for trying to get everyone home in my view.