An American Airlines flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida was detoured to the Bahamas earlier last week, stranding passengers at a neighborhood airport overnight with none accommodations, forcing travelers to sleep on the ground.
It also temporarily turned the passengers into illegal immigrants within the island nation. “They made some extent to say that, like, ‘y’all are illegal immigrants here right away, y’all don’t have much say in anything.’ Although we didn’t decide to be there,” Dimas Henriquez, passenger of American Airlines flight 2421, told Fox News Digital.
“We were literally locked in… It was impossible to go away,” he continued. “I used to be awake your complete time, but people were on the ground covered in corners and stuff, like very opened up. It looked like we were camping indoors.”
Henriquez said there have been roughly 90 passengers on the August 3 flight that was detoured attributable to weather. The traveler revealed that American Airlines staff told the travelers one other crew from Miami was on their option to fly them out because the unique flight crew was “full on time.”
“The core of the entire issue with what happened to us was we were there for 14 hours. But what happened throughout the 14 hours was the really sucky part, where we only ever spoke to 2 people your complete time up until possibly just like the very last hour, where everybody was awake and clocking into work and showing as much as the airport,” Henriquez told Fox News Digital.
After they reboarded to fly to Miami the following day, Henriquez claims an agent told him that he was booked on a connecting flight to Raleigh to interchange his original itinerary, but upon arrival in Miami he went to get the boarding pass and was told “that plane is full, you were never on that.” Henriquez was told there wasn’t one other alternative flight available for 2 days.
When asked about the opportunity of a token to cover the waiting period for his connecting flight, Henriquez claims he was denied a voucher. The passenger and his friends self-funded a automotive rental to drive themselves home to North Carolina from Miami.
“Giving anyone a refund for just missing one leg of the trip isn’t enough when you will have them undergo plenty of excruciating circumstances like that. I feel as if [it warranted] a courtesy to succeed in out and at the least help me find another way home,” Henriquez continued. “They only gave me back $120, but that doesn’t even cover what I needed to do to get myself home to unravel my very own problem that was attributable to this.”
Henriquez, a Columbia native who has lived within the U.S. since he was a 3-year-old toddler, says he was “a bit stressed” while within the Bahamas.
“I’m a green card holder. I’m not even speculated to be there. And I don’t want anything coming up in my citizenship application or something saying, ‘Hey, were you somewhere you weren’t speculated to?’ I’ve been very vocal about [how] I didn’t need to be there, “he said.
“I knew I couldn’t be there, and it was never my intention to be there. I might haven’t been there alone, I might not have left the country alone accord,” the traveler told Fox News Digital.
The North Carolina tenant went to Puerto Rico with a bunch of friends to avoid passport logistics or currency exchanges, a sentiment Henriquez said other passengers shared.
The passenger posted a video about being left stranded on the airport by American Airlines on TikTok, one on his personal account and one other on the profile of a fellow passenger. The video garnered thousands and thousands of views, with users flocking to the comments to clack their keyboards in disbelief of the situation flight 2421 passengers faced.
One user wrote, “Speak to an attorney asap,” while one other comment read, “American Airlines all the time does this,” and one other profile wrote, “forget a refund I would like legal compensation!”
American Airlines has yet to reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi is a contract production assistant at Fox News Digital.
An American Airlines flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida was detoured to the Bahamas earlier last week, stranding passengers at a neighborhood airport overnight with none accommodations, forcing travelers to sleep on the ground.
It also temporarily turned the passengers into illegal immigrants within the island nation. “They made some extent to say that, like, ‘y’all are illegal immigrants here right away, y’all don’t have much say in anything.’ Although we didn’t decide to be there,” Dimas Henriquez, passenger of American Airlines flight 2421, told Fox News Digital.
“We were literally locked in… It was impossible to go away,” he continued. “I used to be awake your complete time, but people were on the ground covered in corners and stuff, like very opened up. It looked like we were camping indoors.”
Henriquez said there have been roughly 90 passengers on the August 3 flight that was detoured attributable to weather. The traveler revealed that American Airlines staff told the travelers one other crew from Miami was on their option to fly them out because the unique flight crew was “full on time.”
“The core of the entire issue with what happened to us was we were there for 14 hours. But what happened throughout the 14 hours was the really sucky part, where we only ever spoke to 2 people your complete time up until possibly just like the very last hour, where everybody was awake and clocking into work and showing as much as the airport,” Henriquez told Fox News Digital.
After they reboarded to fly to Miami the following day, Henriquez claims an agent told him that he was booked on a connecting flight to Raleigh to interchange his original itinerary, but upon arrival in Miami he went to get the boarding pass and was told “that plane is full, you were never on that.” Henriquez was told there wasn’t one other alternative flight available for 2 days.
When asked about the opportunity of a token to cover the waiting period for his connecting flight, Henriquez claims he was denied a voucher. The passenger and his friends self-funded a automotive rental to drive themselves home to North Carolina from Miami.
“Giving anyone a refund for just missing one leg of the trip isn’t enough when you will have them undergo plenty of excruciating circumstances like that. I feel as if [it warranted] a courtesy to succeed in out and at the least help me find another way home,” Henriquez continued. “They only gave me back $120, but that doesn’t even cover what I needed to do to get myself home to unravel my very own problem that was attributable to this.”
Henriquez, a Columbia native who has lived within the U.S. since he was a 3-year-old toddler, says he was “a bit stressed” while within the Bahamas.
“I’m a green card holder. I’m not even speculated to be there. And I don’t want anything coming up in my citizenship application or something saying, ‘Hey, were you somewhere you weren’t speculated to?’ I’ve been very vocal about [how] I didn’t need to be there, “he said.
“I knew I couldn’t be there, and it was never my intention to be there. I might haven’t been there alone, I might not have left the country alone accord,” the traveler told Fox News Digital.
The North Carolina tenant went to Puerto Rico with a bunch of friends to avoid passport logistics or currency exchanges, a sentiment Henriquez said other passengers shared.
The passenger posted a video about being left stranded on the airport by American Airlines on TikTok, one on his personal account and one other on the profile of a fellow passenger. The video garnered thousands and thousands of views, with users flocking to the comments to clack their keyboards in disbelief of the situation flight 2421 passengers faced.
One user wrote, “Speak to an attorney asap,” while one other comment read, “American Airlines all the time does this,” and one other profile wrote, “forget a refund I would like legal compensation!”
American Airlines has yet to reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi is a contract production assistant at Fox News Digital.
