Over 200 outgoing passengers in limbo after CAL delays

By Alva Solomon On In News |
Stranded Caribbean Airlines passengers Azam Bahadur, his wife, Sherry, and their daughter, Aaliyah, await word on their flight at the Princess Hotel.
Stranded Caribbean Airlines passengers Azam Bahadur, his wife, Sherry, and their daughter, Aaliyah, await word on their flight at the Princess Hotel.

Some 248 Caribbean Airlines (CAL) outbound passengers have been stranded here over the past three days, after repeated flight delays.

CAL transported the passengers to the Princess Hotel around 12am today, after tempers flared between them and airline and airport staff at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). Some of the passengers had been waiting in departure lounge of the airport since Monday night.

CAL area manager Carl Stuart met the passengers at the hotel today and advised that only those persons with medical conditions would be able to travel as a priority. One passenger said they were told that some 161 persons are to be accommodated on the airline’s next flight out of Guyana, but she noted that, “even to that, they can’t tell us when exactly we will be able to travel.”

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