TOILET TROUBLES FOR CATHAY
Toilets on plans, especially on long-haul flights, are often the subject of complaints by the travelling public. They say they are often dirty, uncared, not cleaned for hours, with doors that don’t close properly, lights that don’t work, and there aren’t enough of them, with endless queues especially before landing. Try to imagine the panic when all ten toilets on board were completely blocked. Unbelievable but true…
This happened on a Cathay Pacific flight from Riyadh to Hong Kong. All of the ten toilets on board the Airbus plane became blocked after take-off. Passengers wandered from one toilet to the other until the truth became obvious. There was chaos on board, with passengers demanding a rapid solution. The cabin crew’s job to make passengers comfortable suddenly became impossible. When the captain made an announcement that he was going to make an unscheduled landing in the nearest international airport, there was a relief on board. The flight landed in Mumbai.
The cabin crew has never been so delighted to hear the captain say, “Cabin crew, cabin crew, seats for landing”.
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