Passengers on the Moscow — Murmansk flight spent 14 hours at Sheremetyevo due to a departure delay

The flight was delayed by 14 hours

Flight DP6855 from Moscow to Murmansk departed from Sheremetyevo with a 14-hour delay. This was reported by the Telegram channel 'Ostorozhno, novosti' (Caution, News), citing passengers, and Gazeta.Ru carried the information. The flight was scheduled to depart at 18:50 on October 24, but it was rescheduled seven times, and, according to passengers, airline staff did not explain the reasons for the delay.

A night in the terminal and 900 rubles in compensation

Passengers, including many children and pensioners, say they had to sleep on the floor. Around two o'clock in the morning they were called to boarding, put on a bus and driven to the plane, but were then returned to the terminal and sent back to the waiting hall. After that, the flight was postponed several more times — in the end, the aircraft departed for its destination only in the morning, at 08:20 Moscow time. As compensation for the long wait, passengers say, they were credited with only 900 rubles each.

Massive delays at Moscow airports

The incident with the flight to Murmansk occurred against the backdrop of large-scale disruptions: the day before, at Moscow airports, a total of more than 210 flights were delayed and cancelledand the most extensive schedule changes affected Sheremetyevo in particular. Passengers complained that they were waiting for their flights for several hours, even though there was no information about any closures of destination airports.

Context and what remains unknown

It was previously reported that opera singers staged a concert aboard a delayed plane in St. Petersburg. The reasons for the seven-time rescheduling of flight DP6855 and the mass disruptions at Moscow airports are not disclosed in the cited publications; the information about the compensation and waiting conditions is based on passengers' accounts, and there are no official comments from the airline in the sources.

Why this matters

The situation affects thousands of passengers whose trips were disrupted by more than 210 delayed and cancelled flights in a single dayand shows how service and compensation issues are handled during prolonged disruptions — in the described case, that meant 900 rubles and a night in the waiting hall. In practical terms, this means that passengers on delayed flights should document the times of rescheduling and the waiting conditions, since reports of the compensation paid are based precisely on their accounts.