(2hrs delay) Full Flight Athens to Milan on Wizzair A321 HA-LXS ATH-MXP

SHORT STORY BELOW
Flying this year was undoubtedly harder than before, with airlines reducing their capacities and countries implementing travel restrictions. However, for those who could manage to fly between allowed countries, the experience was great! Half full planes, cheap prices...
This time I am flying Wizzair between Athens and Milano Malpensa. At our gate in Athens, many passengers were set aside by border officers and their passeports were seized. This was not that awkward at first, but then the number increased as the boarding time approached. These people eventually couldn't board the plane, i don't know the exact reason but I suspect one which is that their nationalities would not enable them to enter Italy due to the travel restrictions.
The other passengers board as usual, but soon after the crew announced that the boarding was completed, the captain said that there were 99 people on board but they were expecting 94. The turnaround coordinator, helped by the crew, started checking everyone's ID card to verify if they were on the passenger manifest. We started to see passenger standing up and leaving the aircraft. But still 2 were missing. They checked a second time but were left unsuccessful. They eventually de-boarded the plane and started screening everyone as if it was the first boarding. They found the two missing unallowed passengers, and charged a couple passengers for oversized luggage who went through the first time, what a bad luck !
Total delay 2 hours!
Hope that story made the flight a bit more interesting, because it sure was a bit strange for us passengers as we didn't know if the people on board were bad-intentioned or not.

[@JelmersAviation]

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[@FrenchSpotter]

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