A flight by Austrian-registered Comtel Air was held on the tarmac in Vienna for six hours on a flight between Birmingham Airport and Amritsar in India. The 180 passengers were essentially “held to ransom” having to hand over hundreds of dollars in pounds or euros each because there was no money to pay for fuel to finish the journey. Around £20,000 was needed to complete the trip and those who could not or would not pay were escorted off the plane. Some passengers are apparently still stranded in Vienna.
