Magician Ramana performs invisible seating stunt at Manchester airport to promote KLM Economy Comfort Zone.
Now, if only he could show the rest of us how this can be done….then we wouldn’t have to complain about a lack of seating, armrests and hard bucket seats at airports around the world.
Since Wednesday thousands of people have been stranded at airports in Europe and abroad. With no place to go until flights resume and no word on when that will be, passengers face a lengthy wait.
Unfortunately, the airlines are not required to do much, if anything, for stranded passengers during an “Act of God” such as this. The United States Department of Transportation does not require airlines to provide any compensation, food or lodging.
In Europe, the rules are a little more civilized. The airlines are not required to provide financial compensation, but they are required to provide such things as food and lodging “as appropriate”.
The definition of “as appropriate” has been interpreted differently by different airlines. American Airlines in European airports has been providing stranded passengers snacks (because we all know the nutritional value a handful of pretzels). Meanwhile, British Airlines has been handing out meal vouchers to stranded passengers in U.S. and European airports.
Cots have been brought in to Amsterdam Schiphol, Frankfurt, Brussels Zaventem, and New York JFK making the terminals look like refugee camps.
Understandably, spirits are lows and people are anxious to get home. With no official news about when the flights will resume, here are a few tips to help stranded travellers wait out the delay:
If you are stuck in Orlando, Sea World and Busch Gardens is offering free admission. Stranded travellers must present a valid return airline ticket from April 14 through April 21, or until normal flight schedules resume, at the parks’ front gate Guest Services window. Assuming you have no luggage to take care of, this can keep you entertained for a few hours.
Finally, if you are not flying, you can still help by driving a stranded traveller to the local mall to pick up supplies such as mattresses, food, clothes, and toiletries. Please help put a smile on some poor air traveller’s face during their time of need.
Has the volcanic ash affected your travel plans? Are you stuck in the airport? How are you coping?
An Arizona couple has been caught with over a thousand pieces of luggage stolen from the carousels of the Phoenix airport. Kevin King and Stacy Legg-King are accused of walking into the baggage claim area and brazenly taking a random bag before walking straight out to their parked car. As there are no claim check security measures at the airport, they were able to get away with this over a thousand times. Some of the stolen items include: cameras, laptops, video equipment, clothing, medical devices, video games, baseball card and stamp collections and passports. Passports??? The people who packed their passports in their checked luggage deserved to have it stolen.
Apparently, the couple often held yard sales and their neighbours scored some great deals.
Paris Charles de Gaulle, Moscow Sheremetyevo, and London Heathrow are the worlds worst airports, according to the current survey at sleepinginairports.com. In the annual air traveller’s report of the Business Week Magazine, the Prague Franz Kafka International Airport has now been announced to be the World’s Most Alienating Airport. This is reported by the Onion News Network, maybe a critical additional information here.
The Franz Kafka International annoys travellers with 32.2 hours average flight delay, extremely long corridors leading to dead ends, and an unusually extensive security interview in which the honesty and identity of travellers is thoroughly tested. Furthermore, travellers complain about “everyone keeps calling me S.”. In a statement, airport officials dismiss the criticism. See the full story here:
This post was submitted by Aleksthethird, you can also find him at http://airport-hiking.blogspot.com/
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