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This trip will be remembered by passengers of a Beijing - Warsaw flight. Delayed by 10 hours, they were also asked... to chip in hard cash for flight repair. Initially, the airlines refuted these claims, but in Warsaw, the passengers were met with the LOT board member who refunded them and gave them a voucher for the next flight.



Once passengers landed in Beijing, they were asked to wait inside the airport arrivals hall. There, they were met by the board member of Lot, Maciej Wilk.



"I know that today you faced an absolutely atypical situation, for which I would like to apologize. Believe me or not, but it is indeed true that we had a situation where the crew in Beijing airport refused to accept any other payment than cash, and this caused an issue," said Wilk.

"Mr. Krzysztof, our representative in Beijing, took a... well... very unconventional decision. We are grategul that we got the flight en route to Warsaw and safely back here. This would not have happened without you, for which I am very thankful to you and once again I would like to apologize for this," he continued.



Wilk refunded passengers (they collected $340) and handed out vouchers for the next flight.



Maciej Wilk reiterated that this is a very abnormal situation, as normally there is no problem with paying for services via credit card or a bank transfer.



LOT initially refuted these claims, saying that passengers "misunderstood the situation."



According to witness accounts, LOT representative walked around the gate entrance asking passengers who has local currency, because he has to pay the mechanics. They refused to accept LOT's wire transfer.