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VICKI’S VIEW: The Fall Heard Round the World
By Vicki Brown We watched it drop. Gradually and gently, it wafted and wobbled in the breeze…spinning a little, then straightening and landing with a smooth plop in the ravine beneath. The decline had deep this means for my family. It intended the close of silence and solitude, the finish of peace and quiet….the end of joy. It meant that our vacation had turned into a nightmare. The shock was practically far too awful to bear. It was gone…and we couldn’t get it again or find a different one. The Binky was gone. Permit me back again up and give you much more to this story. My mother and father…
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Their View: Deregulation got cheap flights — and travel nightmares | Editorials
Pics of travelers continue to marooned in airports around the lengthy holiday break week are deeply disturbing. Travellers are missing flights, not able to rebook passage to go to with good friends and loved types. 1000’s of parts of baggage continue being strewn about airport lobbies. Airline and airport workforce nevertheless wrestle with the anger and aggravation of shoppers. Some personnel have broken down in tears following hrs of working with unhappy ticket-holders. 1000’s of flights, most prominently individuals connected with Southwest Airways, have been canceled. It could be days ahead of the nightmare finishes, and months, if ever, in advance of passengers are made total for their losses and…