Nightly News   |  November 17, 2011

Passengers asked to pay for plane’s fuel

The passengers on a charter flight from India to Britain were asked for $205 each - a total of $31,000 - when the plane made a refueling stop in Vienna, Austria. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: And you know how the airlines are charging for every conceivable thing these days? Imagine being asked in midflight to pay for fuel. The passengers on a charter flight from India to the UK were asked for $205 a piece, a total of $31,000, when the plane made a refueling stop in Vienna . And they came up with the money, though some of them had to get off the plane and hit the ATM in the terminal to do it. Apparently the travel agents who took the passengers' money did not pass it along to