Let Us Now Behold the Stranded Passenger
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 02.20.07 | 1:15 PM ET
Thanks to JetBlue, it’s suddenly hip to be left stranded by an airline—or at least newsworthy. USA Today rolled out a front page story today about 110 United Express passengers left stranded in Wyoming just before Christmas as a result of bad weather. Their planes actually left without them, bound for better climes. According to the story, “Some in the airport cried as they were left behind.” That’s not to say that being stranded is always an unhappy experience. What if you’re one of 90 employees of a California landscaping company on a business trip to Bermuda when JetBlue leaves you stranded there for days? The company’s chief financial officer wasn’t happy about it, but even he admitted, “The bright spot is that we were stranded in Bermuda and not at Terminal 6 at JFK.” Too true.
Related on World Hum:
* JetBlue Founder is ‘Humiliated and Mortified’
* JetBlue ‘Hostage Crisis’: The Blog
* JetBlue Apologizes for Stranding Passengers on Planes at JFK
Photo by Ingorrr, via flickr. Rights: Creative Commons.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
