Originally Posted by
ffay005
Sounds horrible. If transfer security was such a mess, you could have exited at HEL and re-entered via Priority security for your VAA flight. How much time did you actually have between landing and departure?
We had missed the connection anyway. - 6min from our arrival to VAA departure. Was re-scheduled to next day already when we landed. But still a bit surprised VAA didn't wait, since it was last flight for +24hrs. We were at least 9 pax, probably more.
Transfer desk did not offer anything but Hotel and Alepa vouchers. They do not arrange ground transport such as Taxi or VR. I could have taken a Taxi myself, and later tried to claim the cost from AY I was told.
Well, let's see how the EC261 goes. The delay from DXB on app. 1h was caused by a puking child. They decided to deboard just after pushback, luggage unloading took a while. They might claim this is an extraordinary event. (But in this case only one factor of several to why we are sitting in HEL for +24hrs)