|
COPYRIGHT 2001 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Tom Stieghorst
TRIMS)
Comair struggled to placate its passengers on Monday after a pilots' strike led the commuter air carrier to scrub its entire schedule of 815 daily flights.
It has grounded all its flights through 11 a.m. Wednesday. Further cancellations could come Tuesday afternoon.
The walkout, which came after three years of talks, left many passengers delayed, put others on competing airlines at higher prices and forced some onto buses or planes bound for places they had no intention of traveling to in order to catch connecting flights home.
"I'm pretty close to tears," said Carolyn Gilliland, a housewife from High Point, N.C., after being told she would have to take ground transportation to Miami from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood (Fla.) International Airport to eventually fly to Orlando, Fla. Gilliland said she was meeting relatives in Orlando.
"They initially wanted me to go to Atlanta and then fly to New Orleans," to get there," Gilliland said.
It was a lost day for many business travelers booked on Comair. Peggy Bergeron,...
Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.
|
Bookmark this article
Print this article
Link to this article
Email this article
Digg It!
Add to del.icio.us
RSS
