from USA Today yesterday: "A first class passenger on a flight from Delhi to London awoke to find the body of a woman who had died in the economy cabin placed in a seat near him....The economy section was full and the cabin crew needed to move the woman and her family...as...the first class cabin allowed the family members...some level of privacy on the February flight."
While we were waiting for our luggage at Boston's Logan airport last night, a woman said to me, "It's like a cattle car". and I responded, "No, at least on a cattle car, they kill you at the end to finish your misery".
Seems British Air has the right idea.....though they could have woke the guy to let him know. "Sir, we'd like you to meet your new seatmate"
Our flight home to Boston landed at at 10:45 PM (15 minutes early) from Phoenix, though four 1/2 days late due to a cancelled flight because of snow last Friday. It took them ten minutes to open the door once we were at the gate because, the pilot said, "We surprised them and they weren't ready for us."
I must assume no US Airways flight has ever arrived early before. There were no other planes landing and the terminal was completely empty when we finally disembarked at 11, as they must have awakened Bobo the gate attendant to find a jetway.
The luggage arrived , with no other planes there, at 11:45 pm....one hour later. Well, that's when the carousel started spinning anyway. At midnight I retrieved my bag... as bags were placed 6 to 8 feet apart... it was the last one off. Yep, over an hour since landing to get a bag, when 1.there no other flights in and 2. no other baggage. Maybe Air Botswana would have been the better choice.
Note please that Boston is statistically one of the lowest airports for bag transfer to another flight. Most bags terminate there. The only combo possibly worse than US Airways and Logan would be Richard Nixon and Golda Meir teaming up as a couple on "Dancing with the Stars". On the way to baggage, down a long corridor, there were ,at least, 500 bags stranded, unclaimed from cancelled flights over the weekend, all this due to a 7", long-melted-away, snow.
From now on, when I need to travel anywhere closer than Sydney, I'm driving...and that includes The Falkland Islands.
Back to politics tomorrow
