NYC man needs Air France to pony up $600K for his delayed flights to brother’s funeral: swimsuit

A Staten Island man claims he deserves $600,000 as a result of there have been delays throughout his Air France journey to France to attend his brother’s funeral.

Nicholas Owoyemi took an Air France flight from John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport in Queens to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris Sept. 20, with a deliberate connection to Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport in his homeland of Lagos, Nigeria.

However the journey went awry when Air France “excessively delayed” his connecting flight, he stated in a Staten Island Supreme Court docket lawsuit in opposition to the airline.

Owoyemi, 66, who’s representing himself, stated the airline owes him for the “emotional and monetary pressure” they allegedly put him by way of on the round-trip.

“They gave me the runaround they usually misplaced my baggage, which was not discovered for 3 weeks,” Owoyemi, 66, fumed to the Submit. “They dropped the ball. It’s terrible.”

Owoyemi, who was imagined to arrive in Lagos at 9:40 p.m., in line with his ticket, as a substitute arrived at 1 a.m. on Sept. 21, the courtroom docs state.

As a result of delay, Owoyemi and his journey companion “couldn’t attain their vacation spot and needed to keep in a close-by lodge in a single day for pointless however extra value,” he stated in courtroom papers.

Though he made it to his brother’s funeral service, Owoyemi stated his return journey to New York was additionally delayed by greater than 5 hours and at one level Air France “rebooked” him on a Delta Airways flight that didn’t have him listed as a passenger.

“As a consequence of Owoyemi’s poor medical/coronary heart situations, he suffered grief and discomfort and have become unwell at some point of time at Paris Airport,” he stated in courtroom papers. “Sick, [he] walked the lengthy distance between Air France and Delta Airways terminals a number of instances to catch a flight to New York.”

“You need to be capable of journey with minimal distraction,” Owoyemi stated, including, Air France “dropped the ball from the start.”

Air France didn’t instantly return messages.