Stanley Johnson hits back after BA flight cancellation

Stanley Johnson has hit back after causing the cancellation of a BA flight to London Gatwick.

The former prime minister’s father was on a flight from Malaga to Sussex airport last week which had to be diverted to Heathrow due to runway complications.

The plane was supposed to refuel at Heathrow before taking passengers to their intended destination, but after Johnson caused a disturbance and tried to disembark the plane, the flight was cancelled, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded.

The incident sparked a huge outcry on social media, with many social media users calling the former prime minister’s father a “self-centered‘ And ‘arrogant‘.

But he reacted defiantly after the episode went viral, saying he was “glad” the flight had been cancelled.

Write in the Independent, He said: “I’m not a troublemaker. If I try to make scrambled eggs for breakfast and they end up sticking to the pan, I recognize it immediately. But this time, I did the right thing.”

Johnson said he was not alone in his outrage over the hijacking.

Another woman, he said, was “on the verge of hysteria.”

“I absolutely cannot go back on a plane,” she said. “I just lost my husband in a plane crash. This morning I had a hard time getting on the plane in Malaga. I just can’t imagine going back on a plane now, for another takeoff and another landing. No, I won’t. I absolutely won’t.”

Ultimately, authorities “opted for the nuclear option,” Johnson writes, canceling the flight.

“I am sorry, truly sorry, for the inconvenience caused to other passengers, some of whom no doubt had cars or relatives waiting for them at Gatwick, and who found themselves disembarking at Heathrow, willingly or unwillingly.

“But this time, I’m glad I stuck it out. And there was at least one passenger – this poor woman whose husband had just died in a plane crash – who thanked me for it.”

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