Posted on 06/15/2015 5:22:25 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Is that mess hall different from the airport food facility?
I can’t remember where we ate, when we would pass through on flights.
First World Problems.
I mean I *LOVE* Montana, family there and all that, but I can imagine someone being rather upset at the persons responsible for them HAVING to stop and stay a while there if it were unplanned.
I sort of wondered the same thing when I saw the story on the national news.
It looked like they were doing the best they could for them. Certainly could have been a lot worse.
Better there than the King Neptune Hotel.
Thank-you, Canadians, for being kind to these passengers.
Sorry, Canada. But you’ve got your share of idiots too,eh?
“Life in Goose Bay army base, living the dream. Thanks United Airlines,” someone else tweeted.
Now THAT’S funny.
I left a dog-faced woman in Labrador;
I didn’t wanna Retriever.
As much as I HATE UA, especially the terminal staff; I would still be praising them for a safe passage to the USA.
They are demonstrating that safety is priority one. We can take a stop on Canada and have stories to tell.
Those Europe to west coast runs are over uninhabited areas of Canada. I always wondered what the surface was like.
My heart knows what the wild goose knows / And I must go where the wild goose goes ... wild goose knows And I must go where the wild goose goes ... honk honk
Stopped at Goose Bay in August of ‘90 en route to Saudi Arabia...
Nice folks. Did their best to accommodate a late night arrival.
So if any folks from Goose Bay are reading this, thank you.
Been to Goose many times. It is not the Intercontinental, but nice, friendly, clean with great food. If you don’t like the place, LEAVE. Oh, you landed with an emergency and can’t? Sad. Weasels. It is a nice place, apparently there are some who aren’t as nice as Goose.
Was there 1966-67, teaching DoD students when it was a SAC base on one-sided, Canucks on the other. Many “Goofy-Newfis”worked there, Very nice folks. On 9/11 thousands of people were taken care of by the people in St. John’s Newfoundland when all the planes were put down. Hats off to all.
Sounds nicer than the really crummy Days Inn (no restaurant within walking distance) that USAir dumped us in for 3 days in Charlotte. Gave us food vouchers that the pizza and chinese delivery services wouldn’t take.
The passengers are lucky they did not land in Dec or Jan. It is very cold then. When I was in the AF. We deployed to Goose Bay too fly air refueling missions. I seen snow banks so high that you could not see the tail of an aircraft about to take off. They barracks had pot belly stoves for heat. The heat did not radiate very far from the stove. To close and you burned up, to far away and you froze. The mess hall serviced good hot chow four times a day. I got to do some shopping at the Hudson Bay store. It was no fun working on a aircraft because of the cold. You wore Arctic clothing. Had a Nelson heater blowing hot air over the work area. You took off one glove did a few minutes of work then had to stop and warm up the frozen hand. Then continue on with the repair. Just think of this three straight days; day and night working none stop to support the first B52 flight around the world. The 509Th Air Refueling Squadrons was one of the support groups for this mission. You sleep when you could and eat as you worked. Putting all this aside. I did enjoy the area when is was warmer. Have many memories of Goose Bay and the country side beauty I flew over. The endless white capped clouds to the bluest ski or the green forest and blue lakes. Fill the weakling memory of GOOSE BAY.
Enough said?
I’ve seen it in winter, it is reallyyyyyy cold.
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