Originally Posted by
pon18n
So the PIC of the flight has made a personal facebook post explaining the situation
https://www.facebook.com/chongsiri/p...99101286847466
Note that it is in Thai though. You can google translate it if you want, but I'm a native, so here's my summary for you guys.
He claims that KK has complimentary upgraded pax from J to F which is different from PIC manual. So he tried to fix this pre boarding. KK insisted that pax should take priority and refuse to demote pax. PIC refuse to take off. KK refuse to change. Then 2 hours passed and things happened the way it did.
that's what most of us already understood.
that does not change the fact that the pilot has no right to take over 200 passengers hostage, take the risk that the flight is cancelled and the plane remains in Zurich and blackmail ground control that seat arrangements are changed. What would have happened if nobody of the passengers in F agreed to change voluntarily. Would the pilots have insisted that ground staff use FORCE against the passengers and take them out of their seats (remember the UA case, where an innocent passenger was injured by security when they used force to free his seat for a off duty pilot??)?
that the pilot goes now public on FB against the apology of TG's president makes things even worse! what the hell does this guy think!
now it is obvious, that he needs to be fired!