Secret no-fly list causes Bangkok holiday nightmare

A PASSENGER claims he was left stranded for 10 days at Bangkok Airport, sleeping on a cockroach-infected mattress in a windowless detention room, over a secret no-fly list.

Rehan Motiwala a 29-year-old US citizen was trying to get home to his family in California, but airline staff in Bangkok had refused to grant him a boarding pass. US and Thai officials said he wasn’t allowed to travel but didn’t give any explanation, so Motiwala assumed he’d been put on the US government’s secret no-fly list, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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