An airline on which passengers claimed they were forced to pay for refuelling has cancelled next weekend’s services in and out of the United Kingdom, it was announced today.
The move by Austrian-registered Comtel Air comes as some UK passengers are still stranded abroad, while others are battling to get their money back after being "held to ransom" on the tarmac at Vienna airport earlier this week.
Only one of the two Comtel flights from the Indian city of Amritsar to Birmingham via Vienna took off last weekend.
With passengers stuck in Amritsar, those that did take off said they had to raise £20,000 (€23,400) to fund the rest of the trip from Vienna to Birmingham.
They were stuck at Vienna for six hours and the flight that should have got back to Birmingham on Saturday only arrived on Tuesday morning.
Today, a Birmingham airport spokeswoman said Comtel had told the airport that this Saturday's and Sunday's Birmingham-Amritsar return flights via Vienna had been cancelled.
"They said we would know in the next couple of days about flights after that," the spokeswoman added.
PA