Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran jumped on a drinks cart and served drinks to passengers on an international flight that he had arranged to be diverted to pick him up, along with 30 other business people and government representatives. Foran had been travelling from Auckland to Tokyo for a trade summit and was…
Let’s say they were 200 passengers on the plane, the diversion landing boarding and take off costs those 200 passengers 1.5 hours each. That’s 300 hours of people time lost.