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Stranded passengers aboard a JetBlue flight in February 2007. (Photo courte
2009-09-22 23:53:00 Washington - A three-hour time limit on tarmac waits for airline passengers will soon become law, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said today at an unofficial airline passenger's rights hearing.
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CTA rider: Passengers, 'take responsibility'
2009-08-28 16:00:00 A CTA rider, who requested to remain anonymous, wrote to "Going Public" with complaints about poor etiquette by other CTA riders. Her letter continues after the jump."I was riding on the No. 156 bus and I just was amazed at how passengers do things that could cause them bodily harm.I watched this elderly lady, who could barely walk, just stand and start walking while the bus driver was attempting to make a service stop for this lady. This elderly lady couldn't wait for the driver to stop moving before she started walking, which caused the driver to have to be extra cautious so that this woman wouldn't fall.Now my big question is: If she would've fallen because of her own...
GO2 Will Harness Power from Passengers Dancing: Redefine Alternative Energy
2009-05-07 03:22:00 Alternative energy is a term that has been used quite a bit in the past year or two. The real challenge comes in trying to define exactly what alternative energy really is. Thankfully a new concept boat called the GO2 has given us an interesting and extreme definition for the all too common phrase.
Airline Passengers recount the terrifying DIA crash - The Denver Post”
2008-12-22 23:01:00 More At The Denver Post”: “In the seconds after Continental Flight 1404 came to a shuddering halt in a ravine after skidding off the airport runway, chaos erupted inside the plane's cabin.Luggage tumbled down from overhead bins, smoke filled the cabin, seats collapsed into one another, and passengers and flight attendants yelled: "Get out quick. The plane is going to explode," said Gabriel Trejos, who was traveling with his 13-month-old son and pregnant wife to Houston to visit his father and sister for Christmas.Trejos, who is from Pueblo, was one of 110 passengers on the Boeing 737-500 that skidded off the runway and slid down a 40-foot drop Saturday night.There were no fatalities in the first major accident in Denver International Airport's 14-year”
Passengers Are Alternative Energy Producers
2008-12-16 13:00:00 Around the world there are large organisations looking to find ways of producing energy from alternative sources, which is no mean feat. However, the more innovative organisations have been looking around at their resources and are coming up with some interesting ideas. The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has discovered that they can use their ...
Movie Review: Passengers
2008-12-03 19:58:00 Conciliatory Blend of Familiar Elements It is such a disturbing experience to have to go through another contemptible movie, but no one is supposed to find that out until after paying for an admission ticket to watch Rodrigo Garcia’s convoluted film Passengers. No matter how hard he tries, it can never be either soulful or ...
Attention Fair-Weather Airline Passengers
2008-07-21 13:15:00 On behalf of the millions of regular airline business travelers, this is a memo to all of you “sometimes travelers” in the airports lately: Now hear this! First and most important, the airport terminals are not shopping malls.Casually strolling in the middle of the walkway areas is not welcome by those of us trying to get ...
By: GayPatriot
These passengers were so right!
2008-07-08 12:47:00 In a time when airfare is twice its normal price and they are charging us for every little thing like each bag of luggage we check, I can’t blame these passengers for booing the crew for showing up over an hour late. If the crew is suppose to be there at 9p for a flight, ...
360-degree Airbag System Protects Both Passengers and Pedestrians
2008-06-19 06:59:00 Looking at the car equipped with 360-degree airbag system designed and manufactured by Toyota Gosei, the company supplying Toyota with auto-parts I could help remembering the film Demolition Man” with Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock performing the main parts. Do you remember the episode when Stallone crashes the car? Instead of deploying airbags ...
By: New Car Search
Passengers' laptops now subject to security checks at Jakarta int'l airport
2008-06-07 13:16:00 The operator of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta international airport has instituted tight security checks on passengers' laptops at entrance gates to prevent the equipment's misuse for negative purposes, an airport official said on Saturday. "We have taken the measure for passengers' own safety because certain people could use laptops for negative purposes," Herry Bakti, the airport's administrator was quoted by the national Antara News Agency as saying. The tight inspection on laptops was meant as an anticipative measure against the illegal use of documents for certain purposes, including terrorist activities, he said. The inspection on laptops was done with the help of X-ray devices and by body search, he said, noting that laptops could also be used to hide heroin. Security checks on passengers' laptops had now become part of airport security officers' routine duties to help guarantee flight safety, he said.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
Car driven by drunk youth with 7 passengers aboard crashes into utility pol
2008-06-07 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}SAGAMIHARA, Kanagawa -- A car carrying eight youths crashed into a utility pole here after one of them was driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.Police are poised to arrest the 19-year-old driver, whose name is being withheld under the Juvenile Law, for violating the Road Traffic Law.At around 12:50 a.m. on Thursday, the car driven by the 19-year-old crashed into a utility pole along a municipal road in Sagamihara, local police said. ...
Seat-back screens will soon allow airline passengers ?text chat? facility
2008-05-26 13:36:00 Wellington, May 26 (ANI): Electronic products manufacturer Panasonic has developed seat-back screens that would allow passengers on board an aeroplane “text chat” with others. The new in-flight entertainment system will initially be fitted to 18 of Air New Zealand’s A320 and Boeing 767 aircraft by the end of the year. Mark Street, a spokesman for Air New ...
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54 Passengers Evacuated From Plane After Engine Catches Fire During … -
2008-05-19 22:40:00 Airport spokesman Ronnie Pickard says no one on Delta Flight 4320 to Atlanta was injured Sunday. Pickard says the regional jet was taxiing from the gate for about three minutes when the right engine... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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50 passengers miss early trains after workers failed to open station shutte
2008-05-19 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}FUNABASHI, Chiba -- About 50 passengers missed trains early Sunday morning after station workers failed to open the shutter of the entrance before the first train arrived, the railway operator said.At 5:13 a.m. on Sunday, Keisei-Funabashi Station on the Keisei Railway Line received a phone call from a passenger saying that the entrance to the station was closed.The workers on night duty immediately opened the shutter at the wicket -- but only after two e ...
Princess Cruises Rewards Past Passengers
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Returning Princess Cruises customers will have more surprises in store for them this year. If you are a past passenger of Princess Cruises, and choose to book early, you can now reserve your favorite cruise itinerary and stateroom, and receive extra savings. Princess’ new Princess Captain’s Circle Launch Savings benefit offers Circle ...
Royal treatment for Los Angeles cruise port passengers
2008-05-06 19:36:00 Post from: Travel Lady Blog Royal treatment for Los Angeles cruise port passengers Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has been cruising for many, many years from the Los Angeles Cruise Port. They have just announced that they will be adding another ship to their fleet there to increase their passenger capabilities in that market. The Mariner of the Seas, ...
By: Travel Lady Blog
Lobstah Passengers
2008-05-05 17:11:00 When my wife and I were coming back from Maine last Monday, we found out that we could buy live lobsters and check them as luggage on the plane… So we did! Pre-sunrise, Kennebunkport, ME Roger at the Portland Lobster Pound was more than happy to help us out, so we got a couple 1 1/2 pounders in a box to go. We were told that these bugs would be fine for about 24 hours in the box… So off to the airport, a couple of hours early for our flight, since it was starting to rain anyway. We get up to check our lobsters and luggage only to find out that weather between Portland and Dayton has caused cancellations, and that we’d been moved to a morning flight out. After checking for something sooner, we asked what our options were… And there was a 7:10 flight that would get us home at about 2 pm… I jumped on it, as this put us at 23 hours with the lobsters! Cape Neddick Lighthouse, ME With little further ado, we made it home just fine. Since it was a n...
Passengers inconvenienced when doors of Tokyo subway train don't open
2008-04-30 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}Dozens of passengers were inconvenienced when the doors of a subway train refused to open at a station in Tokyo, subway officials said.The malfunction affected about 50 passengers who wanted to get off or get on a subway train at Myogadani Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line in Bunkyo-ku at around 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday.The 57-year-old male conductor did not manipulate the levers properly to open the doors of the train, which are designed to open in ...
Garuda passengers to Asia reach 700 thousand
2008-04-14 17:30:00 Jakarta (ANTARA News) - National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia said it had almost 700 thousand passengers for Asia in 2007 while its cargo reached 8,000 tons in the same period, Garuda chief communications officer Pujobroto said in a press release on Monday. “The cargo included electronic equipment, chemical substances, textiles, paper and others which were transported ...
High Seas Spa: Cruise Lines Provide Rest and Wellness to Passengers
2008-04-12 00:00:00 Cruise ships are the ideal way to escape the every day and head, perhaps, for warmer climates, fun and relaxation, and some time to yourself. Cruising is also a great time to invest in your well being with a visit to the onship day spa. There's no reason to leave behind the services you may have come to enjoy at your local spa.
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500 Flights Grounded! American Airlines Passengers Stranded
2008-04-09 15:23:00 Hopefully they didn't switch over from Skybus... We're not sure what the FAA was up to until last month - in March they suddenly started grounding planes by the hundreds, and yesterday's 500 flights added to the toll. read more
By: GoGirlfriend
Inflight Beds for First Class Passengers
2008-04-04 21:19:00 If we had the money to cough up, we would most probably want to fly business class. And with the addition of lie-flat beds during the trip, business class passengers will surely love to travel this time around since the usual issue of not being able to sleep well when at work can be solved ...
Inspector: FAA failures endangered passengers
2008-04-04 00:44:00 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal airline safety inspector said his boss threatened him after he vowed to report the allowed unsafe planes to fly, the inspector testified Thursday.
By: Get rich
AI passengers stranded yet again
2008-04-01 05:33:00 Amritsar: Air India has done it again. On Sunday it took its AI-187 flight to Toronto via Birmingham leaving behind around 100 passengers stranded at the Rajasansi International Airport near here.Fuming passengers and their associates, who had come to see them off, raised anti-airlines slogans and chased the AI officials, who sensing the mood, managed to flee.In the absence of senior AI officials, lower staff did not know how to react to the growing anguish of passengers and their supporters, who were hurling abuses and castigating the airlines? behaviour. The passengers described the situation as worse than a railway station or even a bus stand.Interestingly, AI repeated its fault within a fortnight of noted journalist Kuldip Nayyar lodging an FIR against the AI for disallowing him to board the plane to New Delhi from this place despite valid booking.A waiting passenger Tejinder Kaur, who is pregnant, was ruing the decision to book an AI flight to reach her home in Toronto.?You may...
Lack of direct Goa-UAE flight irks passengers
2008-03-31 22:04:00 Abrupt ending of Indian Airlines flight services in the summer schedule beginning April 1 between Goa and the UAE has left many a passengers upset here. “I can’t understand why such a useful link has been severed especially when the service has been running well,” R P D’souza, who works in Dubai was quoted as ...
By: Goa Blog
Railroad offers free travel to passengers dressed as ninja
2008-03-25 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}IGA, Mie -- Passengers dressed in ninja costumes will be given free travel along the Iga Tetsudo line from April 1 to May 6 to mark the city's popular ninja festival, railroad officials said.Iga Tetsudo, which took over the running of the old Kintetsu Iga Line in October last year, is making the offer as part of the Iga Ueno Ninja Festa, a festival that celebrates the Mie Prefecture city's links with the ancient stealth art of ninjutsu.Each year, the fes ...
The Houston Rockets bandwagon train ends. Passengers since 22 games ago, p
2008-03-19 06:34:00 All I want tosay is it was a good run, but one that I’m glad to be over and it ended with a 20 point margin, 94 - 74 Boston. No more media crap, no more Houston fans bumping their chests, no more Tracy “The only thing I know how to do in the first ...
2 passengers rob cabby of $28 and cell phone
2008-03-14 22:10:00 A Black & White Cab Co. driver was robbed yesterday of $28 and a cell phone by two people he picked up in East Toledo, police said. Edward Tolliver, 49, received a call about 4:30 a.m. (...)
By: Taxi Blog
Royal Caribbean Will Reimburse over $30 Millions to passengers
2008-03-11 23:31:00 After hundreds of complains received by the Florida State Attorney's office, and an open investigation on the issue, Royal Caribbean voluntarily agreed to reimburse customers the amount paid for fuel supplement charges for cruises that sailed after Nov....(read more)
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Is it possible to use Southwest Airlines for knowingly flying passengers on
2008-03-06 22:19:00 As a frequent traveler on Southwest and working for a company where we are required to fly southwest I dont feel a $3 million dollar fine sends southwest the message they need or the rest of the airline. If southwest which is one of the few profitable airlines pulls trickery like this just imagine what the non-profitable airlines are doing and how unsafe the airs are now.
By: nobosh Answers
Is it possible to SUE Southwest Airlines for knowingly flying passengers on
2008-03-06 22:19:00 As a frequent traveler on Southwest and working for a company where we are required to fly southwest I dont feel a $3 million dollar fine sends southwest the message they need or the rest of the airline. If southwest which is one of the few profitable airlines pulls trickery like this just imagine what the non-profitable airlines are doing and how unsafe the airs are now.
By: nobosh Answers
Two passengers killed in Qasba Colony firing
2008-03-02 20:07:00 CNews KARACHI: Two passengers were killed as a result of firing on a bush after violence, which erupted in Qasba Colony on Sunday.The violence erupted in Qasba Colony after the death of a youth reportedly involved in street crime, the sources said.Looting was also reported the said area, however, the Rangers and Police have arrived in the area to control the situation.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Marijuana Plane Crashes In Jamaica, Both Passengers And Weed Flee
2008-02-26 23:50:00 In Clarendon, Jamaica yesterday, a plane crashed into the woods near Salt River, and burst into flames. When police arrived at the crash scene, they found a charred, smoking plane, a couple of bricks of marijuana, and a big empty spot where the rest might have been. Somehow, the passengers on the aircraft were not only able to escape from the smoking wreckage, but reportedly took the rest of their ganja, too!
100 passengers forced to walk for 600 meters after train breaks down
2008-02-04 00:00:00 About 100 passengers on the JR Hachiko Line were forced to walk for approximately 600 meters to a nearby station after a train developed a technical problem and came to a halt early Monday morning, the railway operator said.At around 6 a.m., a lamp indicating a technical problem flashed inside the driver's compartment of a Hachiko Line train while it was traveling between Komiya and Haijima stations in Hachioji, Tokyo, according to officials from East Japan Railway Co. (JR East). T ...
New Passport Regulations Challenge Passengers
2008-02-01 20:32:00 What you need to cross the border by land or sea Vacation PlanningIt's happened. After two years of warnings and pushed back deadlines, US border controls have tightened up. read more
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Dwarves hidden in sports bags rob Swedish bus passengers
2008-01-25 14:39:00 Read this story in The Register today. “Swedish police are quizzing “people of limited stature” with criminal records following a spate of robberies from the cargo holds of coaches - possibly carried out by dwarves smuggled onboard in sports bags. According to the Sun, the gang responsible pack their vertically-challenged accomplices into bags and stick them in with other passengers’ luggage. The undercover operatives then rifle the hold for valuables before resealing themselves in their hiding place, to be extracted later by another gang member at the coach’s final destination. National coach operator Swebus confirmed it’d been hit by the audacious criminals, who have over the last few months has lifted “thousands of pounds” in cash, jewellery and other valuables. The company’s sales manager, Ingvar Ryggasjo, said that one short person had been put aboard a coach in a hockey bag. A female passenger said she’d seen some men...
Stagecoach denies homophobia towards staff and passengers
2008-01-25 11:48:00 Express coach service Stagecoach has strongly denied any homophobia
Blimp to Conspiracy Land returns for more passengers
2008-01-15 22:13:00 If you live in Columbia and looked outside this afternoon to see droves of zombie-like Paulites lifelessly marching down the street in perfect lockstop with their eyes rolled back in their heads and their arms extended at a 90-degree angle in front of them, then you might have figured out that the Ron Paul blimp is back in the sky. After trolling the skies in Myrtle Beach, the blimp touting Republican candidate can be seen downtown this afternoon. Paul, a longshot in South Carolina, hasn’t visited much in Columbia, but his blimp is a conversation starter. See how the blimp takes off in this video shot by our sister paper, The Sun News, in Myrtle Beach. [S.C. Politics Today] One Paulite was reported as saying, “It is taking us to The Leader,” before mumbling off some kind of incoherent babble about the military industrial complex. No one knows for sure where the blimp is going, but persistent rumors suggest that it is embarking on a one-way trip to Conspiracy Land....
Calling All Passengers...
2008-01-12 14:13:00 A cell phone has an LCD display—why not use it to display barcodes? A trial by Continental Airlines allows users to display boarding passes on their cell phone screen, rather than printing them out. The video shows it saves trees, and shows how ubiquitous small screens are becoming. Is this a
The side of a choosy Taxi driver (who refuses to take passengers for a ride
2007-12-30 00:05:00 We see them on the streets 24/7. They have one of the riskiest jobs as they are likely to encounter merciless bad elements lurking everywhere. There are sure fateful scenarios they might end up aside from being involved in a vehicular accident. Its either they?ll be held up by people pretending to be commuter, receive ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
CDC Works to Track Down 44 Passengers Who Flew With TB-Infected Woman
2007-12-29 19:00:00 CHICAGO ? Health officials are trying to track down American Airlines passengers in 17 states for testing after a California woman flew while sick with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a California woman boarded an American Airlines flight in New Delhi, India, on December 13th. The ...
Maxjet Lies to Passengers then Cancels All Flights 13 Days Later
2007-12-25 01:15:00 In the "this has to be one of the biggest corporate lies" folder I direct your attention to exhibit A where Maxjet only 13 days ago declared the airline "stronger than ever": December 11, 2007 Bill StockbridgeCEO and PresidentMAXjet Airways, Inc.45025 Aviation Drive, 4th FloorDulles, VA 20166 Dear Friend of MAXjet: Recently, you may have heard?incorrectly?that MAXjet is cancelling flights due to financial issues. Please be assured that we have not cancelled and are not cancelling any MAXjet flights. MAXjet is stronger than ever, with 34 non-stop flights per week between London and the US (New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles). We have completed 100% of our scheduled flights and have an on-time performance record of 82% for November and December to date. This is a fantastic record for an international airline. I am confident we will continue to improve on this as we head into 2008. We take great pride in knowing that we have created a great Business Class product at an incre...
By: The India Street
Cruise: Other Passengers
2007-12-24 05:27:00 One of the things I found intriguing about the cruise was studying the other passengers. There were any number of middle class businessmen and their families as one would expect, but I also noted some others who seemed, um... well, to have more colorful careers. I am sure the two Russian families and the Colombians were probably insurance agents or some such, but the two bikers wearing full colors were, well, bikers. And I couldn't help noticing that the bikers were exceedingly polite to the Russian and Colombian families. Made you wonder, you know?And then there was the very muscular black guy who never smiled and had a tattoo of a seal on his arm -- navy seal maybe? He had the build and the security guy look, and we are talking Hawaii with its major naval bases, so not entirely implausible. But this guy kept looking this way and that like someone doing a threat assessment, but he's, you know, in a hot tub on a cruise ship, not guarding the president. And did I mention he never ...
New Airbus Takes Flight, 470 More Passengers Than Wright Brothers
2007-12-23 00:00:00 Charlie Furnas was the first passenger on a fixed wing aircraft in 1908 when he took a flight on the Wright Brothers plane. (The Wright Brothers never flew together because they promised their father they would not). Almost 100 years later a the Airbus A380 took its first commercial flight today with somewhat more space ...
Keep passengers entertained with Dual DVD/MP3/CD car stereo with 2.5" LCD m
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?Start pushing?, passengers asked
2007-12-06 02:13:00 An Indian train driver came up with an original idea when the train he was driving broke down unexpectedly. Rather than face the prospect of scores of frustrated passengers launching a chorus of complaints, the driver instead asked them to get out and push. Many chose to get out of their seats and do just that, officials say. It took them more than half an hour to move the electric train 12ft (4m) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey. Momentum ?In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident,? Deepak Kumar Jha, a spokesman for Indian Railways, told the Reuters news agency. Officials say the extraordinary display of passenger power occurred on Tuesday in the eastern state of Bihar after a passenger pulled the train?s emergency chain, bringing it to a halt in a ?neutral zone?. This is a short length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires. Correspondents say that a train?s momentum usuall...
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Passengers
2007-11-30 12:05:00 Stephen Emmer na composição, Tony Visconti na produção e...Lou Reed numa pequena demonstração...
'Start pushing', passengers asked
2007-11-29 15:14:00 An Indian train driver came up with an original idea when the train he was driving broke down unexpectedly. Rather than face the prospect of scores of frustrated passengers launching a chorus of complaints, the driver instead asked them to get out and push. Many chose to get out of their seats and do just that, officials say. It took them more than half an hour to move the electric train 12ft (4m) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey. Momentum “In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident,” Deepak Kumar Jha, a spokesman for Indian Railways, told the Reuters news agency. Officials say the extraordinary display of passenger power occurred on Tuesday in the eastern state of Bihar after a passenger pulled the train’s emergency chain, bringing it to a halt in a “neutral zone”. This is a short length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires. Corresponde...
Frisky couple leave Danish train passengers out in cold
2007-11-27 19:49:00 Passengers at a Danish train station were left out in the cold on Monday when a couple began having sex in the waiting room, police said. "We don't know if it's due to the glacial weather this morning or to unbridled passion, but a couple did not hesitate in having sexual relations in a waiting room at the Koge train station," just south of Copenhagen, police spokesman Carsten Andersen told AFP. Freezing passengers had called the DSB rail company to complain that they were stuck out in the cold due to the steamy love-making of a 37-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman.
By: Attuworld
Passengers stand on both sides over walking ban on train station escalators
2007-11-27 00:00:00 YOKOHAMA -- "Don't' walk along escalators!" That's what Yokohama Municipal Subway officials have asked passengers by putting up warning signs at all of its 32 stations starting this fall.The move was prompted by a series of complaints filed by passengers with the Transportation Bureau of the Yokohama Municipal Government. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport also says that escalators are not designed to be walked along by passengers.City officials say they ... |
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