CAL's Stinking Flight and Apologies
06-21-2007, 08:36 PM
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CAL's Stinking Flight and Apologies
Returned from a weeklong trip and surprised that nobody posted this (or at least I did not find it with a cursory search).
The problem was someone had flushed a latex glove into the lavatory and plugged it up. This was a flight from Shannon to Newark. I heard Jay Leno joking that the plane stank all the way across the pond, but when it landed, the passengers thought EWR stunk even more and wanted to get back on.
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stor....26c96d76.html
I fly CAL a lot now and this better not happen on my flights, but I understand that crap happens sometimes. Just not to this extent.
The problem was someone had flushed a latex glove into the lavatory and plugged it up. This was a flight from Shannon to Newark. I heard Jay Leno joking that the plane stank all the way across the pond, but when it landed, the passengers thought EWR stunk even more and wanted to get back on.
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stor....26c96d76.html
I fly CAL a lot now and this better not happen on my flights, but I understand that crap happens sometimes. Just not to this extent.
06-21-2007, 09:23 PM
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I heard something about the passengers getting a $500 voucher. That hardly seems like fair compensation for sitting next to sh!t for 7 hours.
Would it have been possible for CAL to fly out an extra airplane upon learning of this problem to pick up the passengers, and then to ferry the plane with the broken lavs back to EWR for repair? Although it would have cost CAL quite a bit of money it seems like it could have saved them a big PR problem.
Would it have been possible for CAL to fly out an extra airplane upon learning of this problem to pick up the passengers, and then to ferry the plane with the broken lavs back to EWR for repair? Although it would have cost CAL quite a bit of money it seems like it could have saved them a big PR problem.
06-22-2007, 06:49 AM
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I heard something about the passengers getting a $500 voucher. That hardly seems like fair compensation for sitting next to sh!t for 7 hours.
Would it have been possible for CAL to fly out an extra airplane upon learning of this problem to pick up the passengers, and then to ferry the plane with the broken lavs back to EWR for repair? Although it would have cost CAL quite a bit of money it seems like it could have saved them a big PR problem.
Would it have been possible for CAL to fly out an extra airplane upon learning of this problem to pick up the passengers, and then to ferry the plane with the broken lavs back to EWR for repair? Although it would have cost CAL quite a bit of money it seems like it could have saved them a big PR problem.
CAL doesn't have spare airplanes. The 757/767's they do have fly 20 hrs a day. Would you wait for a plane to arrive from Newark? It's 6 hours each way. The plane diverted to Shannon to fix the LAV. It worked, they took off, the glove stopped it up again. They didn't know about the glove then. It would have been fine if they just didn't use that LAV. Stupid people can't read the big sign on the LAV seat back telling them not to put trash in the toilet. Find the idiot and make him give everyone on the plane $500 cash.
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