This strikes me as one of the more unusual reasons for a long haul flight diversion, as reported by The Aviation Herald.
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ATC calling in sick? Does Suriname also have a 'government shutdown' right now?
No, they have a civilised legal system where people aren't expected to work when they're ill 😉
"The plane landed in Cayenne at 4:33PM, after a quick 35-minute flight. "
Did you mean 'Paramaribo'?
While we all have heard of hidden city bookings, this is a rare case of a hidden country booking. And unlike that notorious hidden country booking on Ryanair Flight 4978, nobody got dragged off the plane and jailed in Belarus.
100%. We should do that in the USA, too.
After all, as ‘Big Poppa’ once said: We “got enough to feed the needy… no need to be greedy…”
You know who will never call in sick, or even be sick ever?
Like what I keep telling people.
We need to remove humans from the controls.
The Surinamese are amongst the laziest and incompetent people on the planet. The men, especially.
@JHS
Inside the cockpit, yes.
Outside the cockpit, no at least not under current technology. But don't tell those power trip happy attendants that they're more important than pilots, their union will think how make it rain money. Even they're not obsolete, they're still replaceable.