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2007 Awards: Worst Travel Experience

This year, it was all about Getting Trapped on the Tarmac. JetBlue started the trend way back in February with the Hostage Crisis at JFK. (We got lucky and spent our delay at JFK at the airport bar.) Those who weren't so lucky got together and started a movement--and a blog, natch.

As the summer of delays wore on, more and more passengers got trapped by airlines, including the rabble-rousers on Continental Flight 1669. (We can't imagine spending 14 hours on the ground, like some poor souls on a Royal Air Maroc flight.) The worst of the tarmac horror stories involved backed up toilets and other nastiness we'd rather not think about this early in the morning.

All that said, get ready for an interesting 2008. New York State's new passenger bill of rights goes into effect tomorrow--and is sure to spark some litigation. Fun!