Traveller tells airhostess to leave plane

A Saudi domestic flight was delayed for nearly two hours after a passenger caused havoc over the presence of stewardesses in the absence of related male companion, a newspaper in the conservative Gulf Kingdom reported on Tuesday.

The stewardess aboard the flight from the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah to the eastern port of Dammam has just started to serve the Saudi passenger when he asked her whether she is accompanied by a male relative.

“He then asked her angrily: why are you here without a related male companion…the passenger then started shouting and demanded that the plane must not take off before all women without a male companion are taken out,” Okaz daily said.

It said the pilot then radioed the Jeddah airport security men, who hurried to the aircraft on the runway and forced the passenger and his son out.

“The incident caused a delay of nearly two hours in the flight…authorities are still investigating the case,” it said.

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