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Aug 08, 2008 News
Some of the passengers who travelled to Barbados on a Liat aircraft on July 20 last are currently inquiring the whereabouts of their luggage.
They were scheduled to leave Guyana on July 19 last and return on August 2. Instead, their departure flight was postponed to the following day. The return date remained.
Among the passengers was Mr. Harrinarine Deosarran, of 37 David Rose Housing Scheme, Mahaica, who travelled along with his wife and two children.
He said that his family was not notified that the flight was postponed. Deosarran told Kaieteur News that he explained to the officials at the airlines that they had travelled a lengthy distance to get to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and he was not about to waste all his money to go all the way home until the next day.
He said that he and his family were allowed to stay at a local hotel until the day of their flight.
On July 20, the Deosarran family, along with some 50 other passengers, boarded the Liat flight and departed the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
They were told they were flying non-stop to Barbados. Instead of the direct flight to Barbados, the aircraft stopped for 20 minutes in Trinidad.
Deosarran and 20 other passengers were taken off the plane at 13:05hrs. The man said that they were told by the supervisor at the Piarco International Airport, who was not wearing any form of identification, that they were to stay still until she returned to speak to them.
Two hours passed and the supervisor did not return. The passengers were then taken to a Trinidad hotel, and were not given anything to eat until 19:00hrs.
Deosarran could not say what happened to the other passengers, but he suspected that they, too, were asked to remain in Trinidad.
The passengers spent one night, and departed Trinidad the next day on the same flight in which they left Guyana, and finally arrived in Barbados on July 21.
The Deosarran family enjoyed their vacation in the Land of the Flying Fish and thought they would not have any further inconveniences with Liat.
The family, along with the other passengers, boarded Liat flight 781 to return to Guyana.
At the Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados, he was ordered not to board the plane with his hand luggage.
The hand luggage contained some US$577 worth of items he had bought in Barbados.
Deosarran had four pieces of luggage, but he boarded the plane with only the one containing his personal and travelling documents.
The aircraft arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Saturday, August 2, at 9:25hrs, and the passengers were told their luggage had not yet arrived from Barbados.
They were eventually given two numbers to contact Liat about their missing luggage, but the numbers rang out.
From the date of their arrival to Wednesday, Deosarran has been contacting the airline’s customer service on the given numbers.
He managed to get two responses, one of which advised him to uplift his luggage at the local airport on Wednesday.
Deosarran only received two pieces of his luggage, one of which contained some flying fish and fruits he purchased in Barbados.
The items were all spoilt and the luggage damaged. So far, he has three pieces of luggage, but his hand luggage remains misplaced.
Deosarran visited the manager of Liat, who gave him $16,000 to cover his transportation cost but no word on his missing piece.
The other passengers also missed pieces of luggage, but they have been silent. Attempts were made by Kaieteur News to contact the given numbers, but they proved futile.
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