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[skinkinthegrass]

now imagine; pResident O'Bozo's DeathCARE programs..
(on steroids), let all of 'em die.. it's much cheaper.
and when you do...you' ll still vote democrat (the Chicago Way)

[MrKatykelly]

I’ve been through a lot of airline horror stories myself, but never one this bad. Just, WOW!

[katana]

Free bowls of ramen noodles and cups of hot tea in a cramped boarding area filled with could-not-care-less staff and rowdy, sweaty, and cursing Chinese passengers (my last experience with a much shorter equipment delay at a Chinese airport - Chengdu IIRC) will only carry you so far.

[B.O. Plenty]

If I can’t drive there, I ain’t going....

[DonkeyBonker]

Shanghaied in Shanghai

[Cyclone59]

Why wouldn’t they just send another jet since they were having so much problems.

[faucetman]

Just one more reason to add to my list of why I will NEVER fly again.

[Revolting cat!]

“The passengers are revolting, sire!”

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ve only been stranded,overnight,once while traveling.It was due to mechanical trouble and the unavailability of parts.It was in Honolulu...not China. (China? Yikes!)

[Revolting cat!]

After 3 days the passengers must have become dis-Oriented!

[Alberta's Child]

These passengers should consider themselves lucky. If they think a three-day delay for a flight to Newark, NJ was bad, imagine how much worse it would have been if the flight had only been delayed for TWO days.

[al baby]

Better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air ,than in the air wishing you were on the ground

[struwwelpeter]

I had some fun last time I flew to Kazakhstan. Couldn't land in Astana due to bad weather, so we ended up in Almaty for the night. Absolute CF when customs didn't want to process an unexpected international flight - they expected us to just mill around in limbo for 8 hours without access to seating and bathrooms.

When they finally let us into the country, absolutely no info, no assistance. The Lufthansa rep was AWOL, the Air Astana rep claimed it wasn't his problem - go buy a ticket if you want to go to Astana. Some people did.

When they finally started handing out boarding passes, they had a deaf mute go into the throng and whisper the mispronounced names of 3 or 4 passengers, get confused, and disappear again 30 minutes, probably to ask his boss what to do if someone didn't take their pass.

At first it looked like they were just squeezing people in small groups onto little Antonov turboprops that were leaving every couple of hours.

I finally got a pass, get trucked out to the plane and low and behold everyone who bought a ticket earlier that night and walked around gloating about not being stuck in Almaty was on the same flight as those of us who were patient / cheap / didn't get into the ticketing line on time.

We all got to Astana, but the baggage hatch was frozen and they had to warm it up with a power cart. Of course, no announcements, just people alternating stares at the empty baggage carousel and the lone baggage attendant asleep on the bench.

When the baggage carousel started up three hours after we arrived, first there was a bunch of frozen horse carcasses wrapped in dirty cheesecloth, followed by one suitcase at a time every 10-15 minutes.

My suitcase was, of course, last. And open.

And that's how I spend last New Year's eve ;-)

[Minutemen]

I will never have an ordeal like that! (You will never see me step foot in China)

[Popman]

Just got back from putting my kid on his first flight.....united of course.....

They Bumped him from a 45 minute layover to a 12 hour layover in Denver...

Ass holes .... He is flying to San Diego.....