Georgia-stranded Bahraini families enroute to homes
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Staff Reporter
The Bahraini families stranded at an international airport in Georgia are on their way home, thanks to the quick intervention into the matter by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is learnt that the ministry officials got in touch with the airlines, which, without any notice, cancelled the flight from Kutaisi International Airport in Georgia to Abu Dhabi, pushing the families into great distress.
Left with no money to afford lodging as well as food, the members of the stranded families would contact our sister newspaper Al Ayam, which drew the Foreign Ministry’s attention into the matter through a special report.
The families have flown to Abu Dhabi from where they will be taking a connection flight to the Kingdom. The ministry thanked the airline management for fixing the issue while arranging flight service for the “stranded families”.
Earlier, speaking to Al Ayam, Muhammad Abdullah, one of the passengers in the group, said: “Concluding our trip to Georgia, we went to the international airport in Kutaisi to catch a flight for Abu Dhabi, which is the transit before flying to the Kingdom. We were really shocked to know that the flight had been cancelled hours before the scheduled take off time.
“We approached the flight’s counter and explained our ordeal to them. However, their response was a thunderbolt to us. “They gave us three options: return by booking new tickets of other airlines or travel to a different nation at our own expense and book a different flight back home from there, or wait there for 10 days for the departure.”
Muhammad added, “We informed them that hardly we possessed the money or other resources to stay there for longer periods and the group comprised 13 individuals belonging to two Bahraini families. But they showed no lenience and refused to give housing as well as other facilities. We are now left with not many choices.”
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