Russian Stowaway Causes Two Transavia Diversions

In 2018 on the first day of summer break, a 40-year old woman accidentally entered Munich airport without being properly screened*. Terminal 2 was closed for 5 hours and everybody had to leave. It took 7 hours until the first plane took off after the closure, some 200-260 flights were cancelled.
Anyway, long story short: The 40-year old woman did not even know that she caused the closure of the terminal. She took off with one of the last planes before the Terminal was closed 😉

Why did she even bother with it? It's not like there are any passport controls for travel within both countries if going by road, should the status of her EU visa have been the reason behind trying to sneak into the plane. Surely she had more to loose doing something like this than travelling by land...

A nice lucrative EU261/2004 payout for the other passengers on the flight! Ka-ching!

I'm very sure the airlines won't be responsible for this one.

Not in this case.

I believe Russians escaping from the oppressive regime. Not sure why she didn’t claim asylum in the Netherlands, although we don’t know the specifics of her circumstances.

Would be interested to see how that would develop. At the end of the day it is the airlines responsibility to make sure who enters their planes (and who doesn't). They should be made liable for not having a strict enough boarding control, regardless of what happened in the security control.

If you want to make money with EU261, just use your mileageplus miles tk book a flight with Eurowings this Thursday.
Pilots will be on strike so chances are high your flight will be cancelled.
And if not: mileageplus awards can be changed/cancelled free of charge due to Corona.

Nice to see that Ada Quansett (beautifully portrayed by the late, great, Helen Hayes in the original Airport movie) is still playing her stowaway game.

As for Transavia, did they not verify the number of passengers onboard prior to departing the gate?

What relevance does the woman's nationality have to the story? Or was it simply you sensationalizing the headline and capitalizing on the hatred that's being directed even towards ordinary Russians? It's just a bad look.

Racist clickbait!!

It would have been relevant if said stowaway snuck into a flight heading to Moscow (the irony).

very surprised the flights went out. in the US they would have taken everyone outside security, swept aircraft and swept the sterile area. they are pretty lucky it was "just some woman".... Could have been a different story.

Seems there was an empty seat on the flight for her to sit in.
Kind of ironic that she knew where to sit I mean where nobody was assigned a seat.
Also what happened at the gate and when getting on the plane. Most airports check the boarding card at security, to board the plane, and may be even another couple of times before you are seated so how this could happen today is amazing.