Too fat to fly! EasyJet passengers ‘organise whip-round’ to pay for people to leave plane with too many heavy men on board
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 20, 2013 0:48
The 7.05am flight from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport to Geneva was delayed by an hour-and-a-half because the plane was 300kg overweight due to an ‘exceptionally high proportion of male passengers’.
Engineer Simon Lay – who was onboard the plane to go on a skiing holiday – said the pilot struggled to find volunteers because the airline was only offering £100 compensation.
So a collection tin was passed around the cabin until enough money had been raised to persuade four people to disembark.
The four passengers were driven to Birmingham and put on another flight to Geneva which arrived at 2.30pm UK time. Mr Lay, 40, said: ‘The whip-round certainly happened, I put two quid in. I saw other people throwing in fivers.
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