Posted on 06/13/2015 5:40:43 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Hundreds of men, women and children have been abandoned at remote barracks in Canada for 20 hours so far after their United Airlines flight from Chicago to London made an emergency landing.
The passengers were apparently forced to sleep in uncomfortable beds with only two blankets and no heating at Goose Bay barracks on Friday night after landing due to a 'fault' with the aircraft.
They have reportedly been given only two meals, have had 'no word at all' from United Airlines - and two elderly passengers were even 'dumped' at the wrong part of the barracks and left overnight.
But while the passengers remain hungry, cold and 'confused', the crew spent the night at a hotel in Newfoundland and Labrador, passenger Simon Millward told DailyMail.com from the barracks.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Calling all lawyers.
It was kind and courageous of the Royal Canadian Air Force to accommodate those passengers with barracks, Air Force chow, sheets, blankets and precious time. They put their necks out to do that much and did so more than most of us are aware.
Thanks, Canadian Forces!
I flew a lot on business during the late 70s, early 80s. I can remember full meals with appetizer, entree and desert. Served on “china” with stainless steel eating utensils. Drank from a real glass, too. The airlines did their best to simulate eating at home.
I’m in favor of the “drivers” of my flight getting a great rest even if I have to sleep in squalor. I want the pilots to be feeling tip top so they can get me where I’m going without screwing up.
So true.
After UNited bent over for that fraud Muslim woman I vowed to not use them. Now this? I have about 200,000 miles to use so that shouldn’t take too long.
Good plan to make the passengers "rough it". Give these passengers any comfort in accommodations and soon they will demand the same during the flight.
United Airlines. Why does this not surprise me?
I was stationed in Goose Bay or 15 months in 69,70. We had plenty of food and plenty of heat. Cooks in the chow hall used to make eggs including omelets to order. They would crack the eggs with one hand. Sometimes I’d go for breakfast around midnight and again in the morning. I gained about 25 lbs while I was there.
Just before WWII broke out, three US Navy ships, zig-zagging to avoid German submarines, collided with the Labrador coastline. Hundreds of US sailors drowned or died of hypothermia. The very-rural Canadians saved as many as they could. A book was written about the pre-war tragedy, but not by an American: it was written by a Canadian, apparently to spare their American ally the grief in recalling it to mind. Not surprisingly, Google doesn't have a reference to this little-known disaster.
I was at the Alert Barracks. Maybe the eggs were just old but they did have a strange taste. I figured they were powdered as I never saw anything but Scrambled eggs there.
I got my comeuppance there once. In the states I had been eating Jalapeno peppers out of the can. HOT! I was used to it.
One of the women cooks in the chow hall had just gotten a personal order of little red cherry peppers so I took one. She warned me they were hot! “I’m used to it!” I said.
I just took a nip off it and spent the next 15 minutes running cold water over my lips to kill the heat. That broke me of bragging real quick! it was many years before I would take a hot pepper again. I’ve never had such a hot, HOT! pepper in my life.
Where is Happy Valley on that map? That was the closest town on that map. As I was pined up in the Alert Barracks there I never got to town.
The milk may have been powdered. I never drank it or the chow hall coffee. The guys used to refer to the milk as coming from the “iron cow”. AF coffee was generally pretty bad.
I never made it into Happy Valley either. I didn’t have a car. There were some pretty old cars on the base. They were referred to as “goose-mobiles”. I did get up to Northwest River though. It was primarily a fishing village north east of the base.
Our flight crew used to make quite a bit of money when they flew to isolated bases. They would load up on fresh bread, eggs, milk and sell it on base. An underground economy.
These passengers had better like Goose Bay more than the bottom of the North Atlantic.
IMO the only big screw up was the airlines not having very good communication with the group. I am somewhat impressed they were able to put together a couple of meals for 300 in a remote location.
I suppose ANA offers excellent service during emergency landings at remote airports?
I remember National Guard flights coming in and the crew going to the BX for BX prices on stereo equipment, cameras, etc.
I found this satellite map on the Goose Bay website. You can zoom in and find Happy Valley ESE of the airport.
http://www.goosebayairport.com/map.html
They would at least make snacks freely available (United laughs at passengers requesting pretzels), not charge for alcohol, allow 2 checked bags, and even bow in the process so yeah I would personally follow a Japanese airline to the end of the earth.
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