Hell on earth! Must have felt like that, stuck on a plane at Gatwick for nine hours waiting for the fog to clear. Imagine the toilets! Everyone worrying about deep-vein thrombosis. The 200 passengers had already come all the way from India. What a total shambles.
One passenger tried to leave but was told it would be illegal and the police brought him back. What was illegal about that? He would have shown his passport. Where was the problem about letting them all off, to stay airside if need be? I'd have unloaded the lot and told them they could hang about for a later plane or make their own way. Instead they were treated worse than cattle.
Once ended up in Diss myself when fog made Heathrow impossible. As in this case the crew ran out of time and another had to be organised. We waited in the plane, on the tarmac in this tiny Kent airport without a coffee machine in sight. So I got up. Walked off. Down the steps and around the plane.
Must have looked a total prat, but I needed to stretch my legs and nobody takes me prisoner. That's what these people were treated like. Criminals. Somebody, somewhere, should get out a great, big cheque book and say a massive sorry.
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