A PASSENGER on an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin posted a shocking video where the stewardess announced the flight had been canceled just before take off.
TikTok user @gracieb2509 posted the video with the caption: “@Aer Lingus what a joke.”
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In the video, Grace films her and her friends’ reaction to an announcement made by the Aer Lingus flight attendant over the plane’s speakers.
In the video, the stewardess says, “Some of my crew are out of hours.
“It is a legal maximum that they are allowed to work per day and it is regulated by the aviation authorities.
“We have no choice but unfortunately I had to cancel the flight
“There is an airlift coming to the door soon and we ask that you take everything with you.”
Grace and her friends were clearly shocked by the announcement and she later added in the comments that “the seat belt sign was on and they did the safety demonstrations”.
The flight was from Dublin to London, which usually takes around an hour and 20 minutes.
Grace explained in the comments to the video that they were delayed and sat on the runway for two hours before the cabin crew announced that some of them had run out of legal hours so they could work.
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Some comments asked the unfortunate passenger if Aer Lingus had done anything for the passengers on the canceled flight.
She said: ‘They still haven’t offered us a new flight, they just said ‘contact us to make arrangements. “”
Commentators were shocked but many felt bad for the flight crew.
One person said: ‘Can we also acknowledge that this crew also didn’t get paid the whole time you sat on the tarmac? They only get paid when they’re in the air.’
Someone else said, “How come they allow passengers to board the plane before they realize they can’t staff?”
Someone else added: ‘That’s what happened to my daughter so they got a crew from another plane that still had enough hours left for the flight – crazy.’
Another person said: ‘It’s not the staff who are to blame – it’s the senior management who think they can abuse these staff and make them work for free.’
This comes during a turbulent time for air travel and an extremely trying time for Aer Lingus.
Last weekend, at least 4,000 people were affected by Aer Lingus flight cancellations.
Aer Lingus passengers have been haunted by cancellations, after flights to Gatwick, Lyon and Amsterdam were withdrawn.
The airline says the cancellations are caused by a spike in Covid among their staff, as well as strikes in France.
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