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Old Oct 9, 2009, 8:53 am
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Originally Posted by carpetbagger
It was the responsibility of AF to take care of the 300+ passengers and provide the necessary care taking. There is no need to fly in AF personnel from Paris to do so. Just send the stranded passengers to the existing lounges, restaurants or even waiting areas at the airport. If it comes to the point to pay for the food and drinks for the passengers maybe one of the crew members has a credit card. BTW anybody here who knows why the purser is called "purser" ? Probably AF is not obliged to pay cash.
I will not advocate AF in that case but it is certainly NOT the role of crew member to use their credit card to pay drinks to stranted passengers.

Passengers do have their own credit cards and can thereafter send (or at least try to) the bills to AF if necessary.

I would certainly have done that.
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