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LONDON — Airlines have already begun charging for food, drinks, seat assignments and baggage. Now one is demanding that passengers cough up extra cash on board for fuel.
Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded for six hours in Vienna when their Comtel Air flight stopped for fuel Tuesday. The charter service asked them to kick in more than 20,000 pounds ($31,000) to fund the rest of the flight.
Bhupinder Kandra, the airline’s majority shareholder, said travel agents had taken the passengers’ ticket money before the plane left but had not passed it on to the airline.
Denver Post wire services
