Passengers stuck for hours aboard two Air Transat flights stranded on the tarmac at the Ottawa International Airport last month testified at a public hearing Wedneday that their treatment was "deplorable." After landing, passengers were kept aboard the planes for up to six hours without air conditioning, food or water. Alan and Patricia Abraham were among the passengers stuck for hours aboard Air Transat Flight 507 on July 31. Air Transat has offered to give each passenger aboard the flights $400 in what the company calls "a gesture of good faith." Air Transat representatives are attending the hearing, but declined to ask the first witnesses questions.

Source: CBC News August 30, 2017 15:51 UTC