Posted on 08/10/2006 3:17:37 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
WASHINGTON -- Among the thousands of frustrated flyers stuck at London's Heathrow Airport Thursday was U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a jet-lagged casualty of worldwide delays and cancellations that grounded his family vacation.
"It's a nightmare, everyone's stuck, and our flight is apparently delayed until Sunday,'' the senator told The Associated Press by phone.
The New York Democrat and his family arrived at Heathrow Airport at 9 a.m. London time Thursday, but the plane was forced to sit on the runway for two hours before disembarking passengers.
When they finally got off the plane, they were greeted with the chaos caused by the arrests in a major international terror plot.
The Schumer family spent eight hours racing back and forth between Heathrow terminals just trying to catch up with their luggage.
"We now know the shuttle between the terminals better than we know the D train in Brooklyn,'' the senator said.
The first connecting flight to their planned destination -- Amsterdam -- isn't until Sunday, so Schumer said the family would probably head into central London for at least one night.
Schumer said that as chaotic as the airport is, he thought British officials were handling it well.
"The British are very good at these kind of crises, you know, a stiff upper lip, very helpful, but they don't seem to have much information,'' he said.
Schumer, his wife and two daughters had planned a two-week trip through Europe.
Oddly, he is not the first prominent New York politician to witness a major British terror incident.
When the London Underground subway system was attacked in July 2005 by terrorists who detonated backpack bombs on several trains, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was at a hotel just a few blocks from one of the explosions.
No information? Not even for his wife, the current commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, Iris Weinshall.
Chuck has enough money, why not get a cab, stop at a mall and buy clothes then go to a hotel?
Well said!
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Get er done!
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Keep him, we don't want him. Too bad he able to talk to the press from there!
unbelievable!
I'm sure IDF can use someone to clear mines.
Exactly, he could have been on one of the planes they took out!
What a moron. He can take a train via the chunnel, and be there in about 14 hours.
This is just too funny!!!!!!!
BWAhahahahahahaha!
Its got to be tough being out of power. Air Force One would have made a special trip by now if Bill Clinton was president.
Was just thinking that this is not all bad.
Right! But I suppose since he's not one of the *little people*, he shouldn't be inconvenienced.
Wow, must be nice.
A job in politics certainly beats the dumbass salary I'm making...........
Oh, THIS is RICH ..........
Lieberman, the only Democrat who ever got it when it came to the dangers the terrorists pose for us and the rest of the world.
IMO, Joe is coming out smelling like a rose now! And, all those Dems who worked so hard to defeat him (including Chucky) look like a bunch of fools!
yep.....perfect timing.
Now, that's funny as hell .......
He's a liberal----he can't think that fast.
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