5 minutes ago, Beat666 said:

For five years, I worked at Zurich Airport. If folks truly knew how many planes with issues are in the air, they’d probably opt for the train instead. Overhearing countless chats between pilots and mechanics left me more than a little concerned.

 

 

YIkes....!!!!

39 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

YIkes....!!!!

 

But it is still the safest form of transport in the world.

 

Mode of Transport	Fatalities per Billion Miles	Safety Rank
Air (commercial)	~0.07	🥇 Safest
Train	~0.43	🥈 Very Safe
Bus	~0.11	🥈 Very Safe
Car	~7.0	❌ Least Safe

On 7/24/2025 at 9:07 AM, Jethro Tull said:

Many years ago.

I had checked in, and was airside, for a flight from Jeddah to Heathrow when the flight was cancelled and an estimated 12 hours delay was announced.

We were given the option to surrender our passport so we could return to Jeddah to spend the night in a nice hotel or spend 12 hours at the gate on those plastic chairs.

 

Lots of opposition to handing over their passports but in the end around 50% took the hotel option.

Seemed like a good decision and while there were a lot of angry voices about handing over their passport they were given a choice.

JED-LHR says something about Saudi Immigration and airport procedures

When my flight from Chiang Mai to Incheon was cancelled this year our passports were not taken

All foreigners exit stamp canceled and provided  bus transport to a hotel

 

Same thing happened, many years ago on a BKK-NRT flight

Passports were NOT confiscated. 

I think immigration this time was applying their operational discretion,  or pure laziness 

It took hours to cancel the exit stamps of hundreds of people that time