Click to play videoNew Delhi: 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.
In a bizarre incident in Vienna, a chartered airline that had stopped to refuel asked its passengers to shell out Rs 10,000 each to fund the final leg of their journey.
Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded for six hours in Vienna when their Comtel Air flight stopped for fuel on Tuesday. The charter service asked them to kick in more than 20,000 pounds ($31,000) to fund the rest of the flight to Birmingham, England.
When the passengers objected and refused to deboard, Austrian police had to be called in. The standoff ended only after the passengers agreed to be escorted to ATM machines to withdraw money.
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