Most people were awake all night, while few got very little sleep. I awoke for the morning prayer and waited for the stores to open so that I could get some breakfast. Everyone had been so upset with Turkish airlines because on top of delaying our flight and keeping us in the airport overnight, they didn’t even give us food vouchers. Eventually, they gave us food vouchers for breakfast at a time when most people had finished their breakfast.
Although they’d promised that we would depart at 1:00 pm, they kept delaying the flight as they had done the day before. By the time it was 8:00, many people became impatient and one passenger with an infant daughter lashed out at the airline’s workers. She wanted to know why the airline kept lying to us. They explained that they needed to clean the ice off of the wings, but everyone wondered why they had not done this in the 36 hours that they’d kept all the passengers at the airport. After this encounter, passengers were allowed board. Once everyone did board, they were all so happy to just get out of the airport that the didn’t even realize that we sat in the plane for seven hours before it actually took off. Apparently, they still hadn’t de-iced the wings and were doing that when the passengers had already boarded. Once we took off, everyone was just glad that the plane left JFK and hoped for a safe arrival in Istanbul.
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