Algerian Immigrants Stranded at Airports due to Tickets Crisis

Hundreds of Algerians, especially the immigrants living in France spent their night to at Algerian airports in the capital Algiers, Oran, Constantine, while some others resorted to hotels or family and relatives, because of the lack of tickets, and even latecomers on flights did not find places because of the saturation of the flights to France until September 20, as thousands of students will miss the school start in France, workers and employees will be threatened with expulsion from work as well.

Echorouk paid a field trip on Saturday morning to Algiers airport, and found long queues in front of the Office of Air Algerie at Houari Boumediene airport, where hundreds of passengers lined up in front of Air Algerie office hoping to get a ticket to France, some of them book a ticket just for coming to Algeria and collided with the lack of tickets to return back to France, and some of them delayed a flight or wanted to change the timing, but were surprised with the fact that all places were booked up to September 20, hundreds of passengers were unable to change flight dates, especially after September 20, as many families decided to sleep at the airport after their dream of getting a ticket evaporated, especially those who were late for flights.