*yawn*
Cancelled flights happen every day all over the world, and the airline's only obligation is to rebook you on the next flight and get you to your destination eventually. They are under no obligation to provide hotel vouchers, free meals, etc. The comments allegedly made by some of these passengers were good for a laugh, though. "umm, we're like, you know, like in a foreign country, and umm, it's just not safe out there."
The same thing happened to me in Punta Cana Airport in February 2007,(on a different airline, though). The flight was cancelled until tomorrow becuase of a snowstorm in the US and the other passengers were acting like it was the end of the world. You just go back to your hotel and come back in the morning. This is what travel insurance is for.
Oh, and 274 passengers?! That must have been a big plane.
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