Quebec passengers say they were abandoned by Porter Airlines after 7-hour nightmare experience [Video]

A Montreal-area couple and their friend are calling out Porter Airlines for what they said was a “total nightmare” travel experience that left them with over a thousand dollars in additional costs.

Alessio Recine, his wife Azzurra Billig, and their friend Marie Lessard and her partner were travelling home to Montreal Trudeau Airport from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in what was supposed to be a short three-hour flight that turned into nearly seven hours stuck on the plane.

The Porter Flight PD572 boarded at 4:30 p.m. on March 30. “The doors close. We think we’re leaving, but instead we stayed on that airplane for more than six hours without leaving the tarmac,” Recine told Global News on Friday.

He reached out to Global weeks after the incident, after waiting for compensation from the airline.

“It turned into an over 12-hour ordeal that included: almost no provisions or support provided onboard, no accommodations for the night, no food vouchers and no guidance beyond …