Asian Lady Missed Flight

Due to errors Lynne Smillie was unable to board her flight to Benidorm, Spain, even though the plane was still on the tarmac - forcing her to return the next day to jet off to Spain. A disabled woman missed her flight after a series of blunders by bungling staff - who left her by a lift and misplaced her boarding pass. Lynne Smillie, 49, had planned to fly to Benidorm for a holiday to celebrate her 49th birthday last month. Excited for their trip, she and husband Stephen, 54, arrived at their Manchester Airport gate bang on time. But a string of errors saw them unable to board their flight, even though the plane was still on the tarmac - forcing them to return the next day to jet off to Spain.

A passenger on a budget airline was not kicked off a flight on Friday despite unleashing a racist verbal tirade on an elderly black woman. Many people have vowed to boycott Ireland-based Ryanair in wake of the incident on the flight from Barcelona to London Stansted Airport, and officials are demanding criminal charges against the passenger who appeared to threaten the woman sitting nearby. Fellow passenger David Lawrence, who recorded video of the outburst that has gone viral, said the man refused to sit next to the woman because she was black. At one point the man can be heard calling the woman "an ugly black bastard," and later says, "don't talk to me in a foreign language, you stupid ugly cow. A passenger confronted the man and his tantrum eventually stopped, but he was not kicked off the flight. The woman ended up moving to another seat on the plane. The woman's daughter told HuffPost that the man became hostile toward her year-old mother when he tried to get to his seat.

International air travel is making a strong recovery from the pandemic but not all vacationers have made it to their intended summer destinations, at least on time and with all their luggage. Packed planes, pilot shortages, and weather delays are all taking a toll on flight schedules, resulting in thousands of disrupted trips. So far this year, airports have canceled roughly , U. In a controversial move, Heathrow Airport also capped its departing passengers to no more than , per day and extended that limit this week to until the end of October. Europe has been hit particularly hard by flight disruptions.

As a semi-frequent traveler, I'm at the airport a lot. I have missed flights before. I have witnessed people missing flights. I have seen people getting upset about missing flights. This YouTube video, of a woman at Hong Kong's international airport completely freaking out after missing a flight to San Francisco, has apparently become the latest online sensation: HK woman's airport hysterics an online hit.