Too many on the plane, passengers are offered 500 euros … to leave the plane

orange with 6 media, Posted on Sunday, Jul 09, 2023 at 2:05 pm

As a plane prepares to take off for Liverpool from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, the pilot announces that 20 passengers will have to leave the plane for safety reasons. The Daily Mail said the 19 volunteers each collected 500 euros in compensation.

Passengers on a flight from Lanzarote (Spain) to Liverpool (UK) had an unlikely adventure on the evening of Wednesday 5 July.

Pinned to the brim easyJet’s flight back from the Canary Islands, the English passengers were treated to a startling announcement from the pilot, he says. daily Mailrelayed by The Independent. “The plane is too heavy to take offExplain to them.With safety being the number one priority, there is no way, given the current wind conditions, that this aircraft could be airborne. There are a number of factors: It’s too hot, the wind isn’t great, and the steering isn’t greatThen it was included in complete transparency.

To solve the problem, he then offered an unexpected solution, which can be heard in a video posted to the TikTok social network: “I would like to ask up to 20 volunteers to choose not to travel to Liverpool tonightAccording to the Daily Mail, 19 of them accepted the offer. And the deal would not be too harmful for them, as they could catch the next plane in the direction of Liverpool.

Donate 500 euros to the volunteers

In exchange, each of them was entitled to compensation of 500 euros. For the passengers of the flight, the issue was not without consequences, as take-off, scheduled for 9:45 pm, could not take place until 11:30 pm. They finally landed in Liverpool at 3 am. Completely safe, as the nineteen volunteers left the plane a few moments ago.