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Cruise lines, passengers scramble to respond to coronavirus
Cruise lines, passengers scramble to respond to coronavirus
Being caught on board a cruise ship with a huge number of individuals as the new coronavirus spreads far and wide isn’t the sort of peaceful get-away imagined by most explorers, a considerable lot of whom are deferring or dropping arranged travels when appointments ought to be at their busiest.
Journey lines, in the interim, are battling as they attempt to console apprehensive travelers while a…
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Thousands of Travelers Stranded at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport after Pakistan Closes its Airspace
BANGKOK – Nearly forty nine hundred air travel passengers were stranded at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International airport on Thursday after Pakistan closed its airspace on Wednesday.
Some 4,900 passengers were stranded at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday due to the temporary closure of airspace over Pakistan which snarled regional air traffic, especially between Asia and Europe.
Suvarnabhumi general manager Suthirawat Suwannawat said 4,000 of them were Thai Airways International travellers.
As of 1pm on Thursday, 16 inbound and 20 outbound flights were cancelled, while three flights returned on Wednesday after departing the airport, Wg Crd Suthirawat said.
THAI resumed flights to Europe on Thursday by rerouting to Chinese airspace. The airline is trying to send passengers stuck at the airport to their destinations through its allied airlines and on three planned special flights.
The flight resumption has reduced to 3,000 the number of THAI passengers waiting to leave the international gateway, according to Thera Buasri, director of THAI’s Ground Operations Control Department.
“It’s now down to 3,000 [stranded passengers],” he said. “We expect to take no longer than three days to send them all to their destinations,” he said.
The terminal at Suvarnabhumi was so crowded that Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, tweeted a warning to “Please spare your time for your trip!”
The disruptions marked an unhappy end to a month-long tropical holiday for a group of 25 Danish students unable to board a connecting flight in Bangkok.
“The guard over there just said we have to go down to the basement to sleep. So we can’t get any help or information,” Sara Bjerregaard Larsen, 21, told the Associated Press.
Swiss tourist Gerlinde Hoff, 60, stayed overnight at the airport with her husband and by midday was still waiting for another flight home, according to Reuters.
“They only say ‘You have to wait, you have to wait, you have to wait,” she said. “I’m angry and I’m tired. It was such a nice holiday and now it’s a little bit not so nice”.
Malaysia Airlines also said in a travel advisory on its website that it was avoiding airspace over Pakistan and northern India “until further notice”.
Pakistan aviation authorities said the country’s air space would reopen as of midnight Thursday (2am on Friday in Thailand). The government closed it on Wednesday after Pakistan said its military had shot down two Indian warplanes and captured a pilot, escalating tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.
India also suspended flights through some of its northern airports on Wednesday. Those facilities were back to normal on Thursday, but flights both to the US and Europe out of New Delhi were affected.
A United flight from Newark, New Jersey, to New Delhi was rerouted through London and later cancelled, and Air Canada cancelled flights from Toronto and Vancouver to the Indian capital.
Air China cancelled its flight on Thursday from Beijing to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. According to an employee of the airline’s publicity office in Beijing, the status of other flights would be decided later.
The closing of Pakistan’s airspace saw Gulf Arab airlines, which serve as a link between East and West in global travel, rapidly reshuffle their flights.
In the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, civil aviation authorities immediately halted their flights to Pakistan. Airlines in those countries include the long-haul carriers Etihad, Emirates and Gulf Air.
Saudi Arabian Airlines and Oman Air similarly cancelled flights to Pakistan. Pakistanis work in a variety of blue- and white-collar jobs across the Gulf Arab states.
Passengers Stranded as Dana Air Pilots go on Strike
Passengers Stranded as Dana Air Pilots go on Strike
Passengers Stranded as Dana Air Pilots go on Strike
Passengers Stranded as Dana Air Pilots go on Strike
The aviation industry has suffered another setback as Dana Air pilots embark on strike in protest of the non-payment of their salaries, grounding the airline’s operations and leaving hundreds of passengers stranded nationwide.
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Passengers stranded in dark after Eurostar trains suspended
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Passengers stranded in dark after Eurostar trains suspended
LILLE: Hundreds of passengers were left stranded in dark, stifling Eurostar trains in the early hours of Wednesday after several suspected migrants climbed onto the tracks near the French port of Calais.By 5:00 am French time (0300 GMT), passengers on the 9055 train from Paris to London were still waiting at the Calais-Frethun station in northern France after “intruders” on the tracks blocked trains from entering the Channel Tunnel, a Eurostar official said.Water and food have been distributed to passengers and “rescue services are also present for those who need help, particularly the elderly,” added the official, describing the situation as “complicated”.
A passenger aboard the train, Geraldine Guyon, said the situation remained tense in the station, which lies close to the port of Calais where some 3,000 migrants living in makeshift camps have been ramping up their attempts to cross the tunnel to Britain.
“There must be about 1,000 people on the platforms which are full to overflowing. There is no communication, soldiers are present,” said Guyon from the train of 18 cars, which could be carrying a maximum of 750 people under Eurostar rules.
Clothilde, 23-year-old French woman who lives in London, said she had seen the police hurrying down the train and believed there were migrants on the roof.
“We have not see the migrants, but we knew that they were everywhere on the roof and that’s why we waited for a helicopter to ensure there were no migrants above us,” she said, adding: “Passengers are not allowed to leave the station, except to take a taxi at the entrance.”
A spokesman for French rail company SNCF said people on the tracks on the French side of the tunnel had forced a train to slow down.
“Once the train stopped, law enforcement intervened… and that blocked Eurostar services that were travelling towards London and the power had to be cut for safety reasons,” he said.
A Eurostar official said the company hoped to transport passengers to London, the train’s original destination, in the coming hours. Five other trains originally disrupted by the incident have either been sent back to where they departed from or on to their final destination.
“We are doing everything possible to ensure passengers are welcomed with a drink, food, taxis and hotels when they arrive,” a Eurostar spokesman said.
France and Britain have brought in emergency measures to deal with a surge in the number of migrants trying cross the Channel Tunnel after people died while making a desperate attempt to reach England.London has announced an extra seven million pounds (9.8 million euros) to help France secure the Eurotunnel site on its side of the Channel, in addition to 4.7 million euros already spent on erecting barriers aimed at securing access to the terminal and the platforms.
But Europe is struggling to cope with a surge in new arrivals fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, and Eurostar services have been repeatedly hit as thousands of them have attempted to reach what they see as the “El Dorado” of Britain.Services on the Channel Tunnel were also disrupted by striking French sailors, who blocked Calais for several days in July.
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Photos: Air passengers stranded in various airports in Nigeria
Photos: Air passengers stranded in various airports in Nigeria
Photos: Air passengers stranded in various airports in Nigeria
Here are some passengers at Abuja airport, waiting for flights that won’t be coming anytime soon following a national air traffic control strike. The passengers say the planes have been grounded but no one is really telling them anything, they are just announcing flight cancellations and delays. The airport authority is yet to make…
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Air France passengers stranded in Manchester 'so pilot can rest'
Air France passengers stranded in Manchester ‘so pilot can rest’
Hundreds aboard Air France flight to Paris not allowed off plane for more than seven hours after landing at Manchester as pilot exceeds working hours limit
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Passengers on a plane diverted to Manchester from New York were left stranded onboard without food and water for…
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