Originally Posted by
ech207
I agree with you that the captain may have been stretching the truth. My sense is that they were probably dealing with the situation the best they could. That said, to a certain extent the captain may have been lying - which is unacceptable.
I assumed his comments were coming from higher up the ladder, to keep pax contented. Who knows what would happen if some other info had been given.
For example, someone may have thought, wait for the fools in the back get really tired so they would rather stay here and sleep than potentially have to disembark be transported to a hotel then come back in a few hours.
