There was a case several years ago where an AA flight headed to Dallas landed in Austin sitting for hours and would not let passengers headed to Austin deplane. The called 911.
Efficiency…
Was it in the boonies? I guess they could have gotten out and walked, so, not hostages.
In 1980, I took a round trip on Amtrak from Los Angeles to Ann Arbor, Mich. The train was 14 hours late arriving and 12 hours late returning. Afterwards, I vowed that I would never again ride Amtrak, and I never have.
As the people screamed in unison “SAVE US PETE BUTTIGEIG”
Hostage to the unions work rules
Only in America. The America of today is demonstrably and self-evidently genetically, socially, culturally inferior to the America 50 years ago.
It’s called an Amtrak adventure for a reason!
Isn’t that what any good hostage-taker would tell the hostages?
Another miracle from Pete Buttplug! Will his suck-cesses and tales (or is that “tails”?) ever end?
Dagny Taggart would be outraged.
Not a single Amtrak employee will be fired over this, just like at the FAA this morning and the screw-ups at Southwest and all over corporate America.
The country descends more and more into chaos with non-functioning systems but the leadership remains in power, and is amply rewarded, just like the pols who just passed the $1.7 trillion porkulus package.
And ordinary people seem completely incapable of changing it.
Some passengers who were out of patience with Amtrak after being delayed for hours also appeared to have started calling the police, ABC News reported.
Better: Passengers eventually called the police, ABC News reported.
“I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.”...............
Ain’t Communism wonderful.
Hot food is not being served and toilets won't flush... passengers want to leave the train to get some fresh air. They feel they're being held hostage and the conductor - the representative of Amtrak? He pretends the passenger's complaint is, 'are we getting all the information YOU have"? OMG - there are fools running everything now - did the conductor get his job based on sexual kink, color and political position? Same can be asked about the ABC Reporter...
Government run trains
What do you expect?
its why passenger rail is almost non-existent in the USA.
I took the car train several times for trips to Disney years ago. We rented an overnight cabin. Drank wine and watched movies. The dining car menu was good. It was fun. The cost was about the same as flying and renting a car though.
I caught a flight on Peoples Express from Syracuse to Miami right after Christmas in 1984. We were having a massive snowstorm and all flights were grounded. We boarded at 10am and the flight finally left around noon and landed in Newark at 1 PM. Newark was snowed in as well and we were forced to sit on the taxiway until 9PM when we got to the gate. The crew would not let us deplane and get something to eat or drink. Finally, about 10 I told them I was getting off. They only let 2 of us off for 15 minutes, with the other being the Head wrestling coach of Ithaca College who had to call the wrestling tournament officials that the team was participating in.
We finally took off at midnight and arrived in Miami at 3 AM. We all definitely felt like hostages.
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