Air Canada cancels Casablanca-Montreal flight after altercation

An Air Canada flight from Casablanca to Montreal was cancelled following an altercation between the cabin manager and passengers.

Tensions escalated when the cabin crew member and passengers got into an altercation. In videos posted by Jalal Belayane and other passengers on social media, the flight attendant can be seen shouting at passengers sitting in their seats. “Are you going to behave (properly), or are we going to disembark?” she asks. The argument began over demands for blankets on Air Canada flight AC 73, scheduled for 8:50 a.m. local time on Friday. “I saw the cabin crew member running, and that’s when I started filming because there was yelling. The way she came screaming, it was shocking,” says Jalal Belayane, assuring that “there was never (any) aggression against Air Canada staff, there were just demands for blankets.” The passenger added that the people who asked for the blankets were people in their 40s and “no one got up.” Four passengers reportedly made the requests to keep warm, but the crew did not have enough blankets for all of the 296 passengers who wanted them, the report said. The Press. Enough to provoke the indignation of some passengers on this flight whose ticket costs nearly $1,500.