Aerolineas Argentinas flight delays spark passenger violence

[Pieter C. 5]

Argentina Flight Delays Spark Passenger Violence

 

January 14, 2008

Frustrated customers smashed ticket counters and threw objects at airline staff at Argentina's main airport on Saturday after the country's flagship airline canceled international flights for a second day.

 

Television images showed damaged ticket counters and broken glass in the main hall of the Aerolineas Argentinas terminal, where passengers angry at delays caused by a baggage handlers strike and a walkout by ticket counter workers shouted down an Aerolineas Argentinas employee and threw objects at him.

 

The strike for higher wages had sparked delays at the airport since Friday. Several thousand passengers were stranded when Aerolineas Argentinas canceled its flights abroad, according to local media.

 

Phone calls to the airline and airport company went unanswered on Saturday.

 

"There's no one from the company, no one is showing their face or telling us when we're going to fly. We're stranded with children and the elderly," a woman whose flight to Venezuela was canceled on Friday told local TV.

 

Aerolineas Argentinas is 95 percent controlled by Spain's Marsans, with the remainder held by the Argentine state.

 

(Reuters)

 

[Imran K. 0]

Argentina Flight Delays Spark Passenger Violence

 

January 14, 2008

Frustrated customers smashed ticket counters and threw objects at airline staff at Argentina's main airport on Saturday after the country's flagship airline canceled international flights for a second day.

 

Television images showed damaged ticket counters and broken glass in the main hall of the Aerolineas Argentinas terminal, where passengers angry at delays caused by a baggage handlers strike and a walkout by ticket counter workers shouted down an Aerolineas Argentinas employee and threw objects at him.

 

The strike for higher wages had sparked delays at the airport since Friday. Several thousand passengers were stranded when Aerolineas Argentinas canceled its flights abroad, according to local media.

 

Phone calls to the airline and airport company went unanswered on Saturday.

 

"There's no one from the company, no one is showing their face or telling us when we're going to fly. We're stranded with children and the elderly," a woman whose flight to Venezuela was canceled on Friday told local TV.

 

Aerolineas Argentinas is 95 percent controlled by Spain's Marsans, with the remainder held by the Argentine state.

 

(Reuters)

 

Oh my lord...what a situation!

 

Im trying to imagine such an incident in KLIA or something...

 

yeh..i can see that happening. :S