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Royal Air Maroc and US Airways Are the New JetBlue

March 19, 2007 at 9:50 AM | 0 Comments

The JetBlue groupies are so very happy this morning. While we've spent the last few weeks lamenting all the bad publicity surrounding those infamous runway incidents at JFK, we've also been reminding people that, although those incidents were bad indeed, bad things do happen on other airlines. US Airways is currently getting busy clearing its backlog of stranded pax, but Royal Air Maroc is dropping jaws to their lowest, after news of an even longer hostage crisis has emerged. Passengers aboard a Royal Air Maroc flight bound for Casablanca were trapped on the tarmac for all of fourteen (!!!) hours in ice storm hell. The pilot eventually gave up and declared "The gods are against us." That would be putting it mildly. It's times like these that global warming doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

[Photo: caribb]

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