Airline passengers stranded for third day
Airline passengers stranded for third dayThousands of weary travelers faced a third day waiting to reach their destinations Sunday as US Airways struggled to recover from the ice and snow storm that paralyzed airports in the Northeast. The airline was still trying to find seats for 100,000 passengers systemwide whose flights were grounded by Friday’s storm, spokesman Andrew Christie said. Many of the passengers were diverted to US Airways’ hub in Charlotte, on Friday. (Star News Online)
Airlines learn to fly on a wing and an apology Airlines are getting serious about saying they’re sorry. After a spate of nightmarish service disruptions, American Airlines, JetBlue Airways and others are sending out more apologies, hoping to head off customer complaints and quell talk of new consumer-protection regulations from Congress. But no airline accepts blame quite like Southwest Airlines, which employs Fred Taylor (New York Times)
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Odd items found on city trains, buses When transit supervisor Eulette Stewart-Graham received a letter from the parent of a distressed child, it wasn’t the boy’s lost bag that was important - it was the contents: his goldfish, Slurpy. The boy’s pet never turned up, but Stewart-Graham responded to the letter anyway. As station supervisor of New York City Transit’s lost property unit, she and her staff are used to questions that range from the mundane to the quirky and even bizarre.(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The corpse & the airline passenger We’ve all had terrible experiences onboard plane flights, but you’ve likely never experienced anything quite like this. A British businessman was stunned to find he’d been assigned a seat right beside the most unlikely passenger possible - a corpse. The bizarre situation occurred when a woman travelling in the economy section of a British Airways flight from Delhi to London died just after the jet had taken off. (CP 24)
Passengers on cruise ship recall jumping incident The ship the Carnival Glory is back at sea Sunday after pulling into Port Canaveral late Saturday morning because of Friday morning’s search for an Orlando man who went overboard. Passengers said the stories of how Michael Mankamyer went overboard highlighted their own cruise experiences, WESH 2 News reported. (WESH)
Get kids to help choose next vacation destination Like most families, William and Susan Ortega have not yet planned their summer vacation. “I haven’t really thought about it,” William Ortega said. “Like everything else we do, we wait until the last minute. I know it’s better to plan ahead but sometimes it’s just not possible.” The Ortegas and their two sons — Billy, 12, and Josh, 8 — usually wait until May to prepare their wish-list of places to visit in the summer. (El Paso Times)
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