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Aug 31, 2005 | 11:15 PM

51ford fan

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Please Fly American Arlines

Please consider flying American Arlines in the future. My daughter and son-in-law were in New Orleans last week for an EMT (Emergency Medical Technican) conference. On Sunday morning the hotel they were staying in dumped them on the sidewalk, with their luggage, and told them they were on there own.They managed to get a taxi to drive them to the New Orleans International Airport. There Frontier Airlines flight they were scheduled to leave on Sunday afternoon was cancelled, and the airport was closed. Although being stranded at the airport turned out to be the best of a bad overall situation. FEMA came into the airport on Tuesday morning to setup emergency evacuations for some critical hospital patients. My son-in-law being a Parametic, and daughter an EMT, volunteered to assist. Tuesday afternoon American Arilnes suddenly landed an plane to pickup their stranded passengers, and employees. Being vital personnel my daughter and son-in-law was also given the chance to board. They were loaded first and flown to Dallas free of charge, American Airlines put them up in overnight in a resort also free of charge. They were able to connect with there Frontier flight and returned home today.

Last edited by 51ford fan; Sep 1, 2005 at 12:03 AM.

Aug 31, 2005 | 11:52 PM

fordguy21

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WOW! Glad to hear that they are safe

Aug 31, 2005 | 11:56 PM

jake00

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wow, thats awesome...... im actually flying AA on my honeymoon

Sep 1, 2005 | 04:07 PM

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Several years ago a crew of us was working out west on a military reservation. One of the guys wife collapsed at home, they had three little ones and no relatives back east. We worked on trying to get him out, Reno Airport was under water. No one would help us, American Airlines called us back, asked if there was a landing field nearby. No but a road was widen and painted for a runway. They flew in a plane, picked him up and flew to St Louis for the connection at no charge. Found out later its big deal to land on Military landing strips, but they cut thru all the paper work and did it. BTW we hadn't flown out there for the job.