When you cannot find seat in a crowded metro or a bus, you stand around, and that’s okay. But ever heard about passengers standing in the aisle? Well, a Pakistani airline made that happen. Recently, a flight from Karachi to Saudi Arabia was overbooked and instead of 409 passengers (which was the capacity), the airlines issued hand-written boarding passes to 7 extra people.

© Twitter

Eventually, these passengers stood in the aisle. Yes, not kidding. The airlines breached air safety rules like it’s no ones business. While the aviation authority is dodging the blame around each other, the captain of the Pakistan International Airline flight, Anwer Adil has his own explanation for this mess up. “After take-off when I came out of (the) cockpit, (the senior purser) informed me that there were some extra people who (had been) boarded by the traffic staff. I also noticed some people were those who were categorically refused jump seats by me at the check in counter before the flight”, he said in an interview. He couldn’t fly back to Karachi as that would have meant wasting fuel.

© Twitter/representational image

Well, this seems like for the authority, it was a matter of sheer negligence, something which they are okay with, and are brushing it off as ‘no big deal’.