Singapore Airlines Reportedly Kept Passengers On Plane For 3 Hours Without Air-Conditioning What should have been an easy 4-hour flight from Singapore to Kolkata, India, turned into a nightmare for passengers, well before take-off. That’s what a passenger aboard the flight is alleging on Facebook. Ms Chandni Doulatramani complains that flight attendants were rude to passengers and that passengers were kept in the aircraft cabin without ventilation for nearly an hour. Her comments were accompanied by a video. Viewed nearly 80,000 times, the video shows passengers talking to airport police aboard the Singapore Airlines flight. We breakdown Ms Doulatramani’s dramatic allegations after the jump. 1. Boarding bus issues It’s surprising that Singapore Airlines uses tarmac boarding in this day and age, but that’s probably not the airline’s fault. But anyway, passengers on board SQ516 were put on a bus that would take them to their aircraft, a Singapore Airlines Airbus A330. That journey was anything but smooth, according to Ms Doulatramani. She writes, The driver started the bus, moved it by half an inch and then got off the bus. He repeated this four times. Every time we thought we were going to leave, he got off. This didn’t last […]
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