Flight delay: Commandos called to airport
SriLanka Airlines is willing to consider paying compensation for passengers who were caught up in a 15 hour flight delay this week and staged a protest, its Corporate Communication head Chandana de Silva told The Sunday Times.
He said that no passengers of the particular flight from Kuwait via Dubai had so far asked for compensation and that they could consider it if any passengers appealed to them officially in writing.

He added that the flight delay was due to a technical fault. The flight which was scheduled to arrive at the Bandaranaike International Airport at 5.30 am arrived only at about 8.00 pm. Most of the passengers were on transit to India.

On arrival they had refused to get off the flight prompting the authorities to switch off the airconditioning inside the aircraft and to call for the assistance of commandos to evict the passengers.

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