problem solving
When storms force your cruise to skip ports of call, don't sit idly in your cabin watching the whitecaps break menacingly against the ship. Go find your fellow passengers and stage a mutiny! At least that is what
passengers onboard the Sapphire Princess did when two typhoons kept the ship from planned port calls in Vietnam, Japan, and Taiwan.
At one point, with passengers assembled in the ship's theater, she said, "the attorney jumped up and grabbed the microphone away from the assistant cruise director and said: 'We're taking over the stage! We have a petition!'"
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technology
When a storm forced American Airlines to divert 130 planes from Dallas-Fort Worth last year, the airline
tracked the diverted planes not with an advanced computer system, but with a legal pad.
Lacking any automated system for keeping track of all those diverted planes, Mr. Dillman and his colleagues furiously scribbled down details of where they had gone, how long they had sat there, and whether pilots had enough time left on their daily work limits to keep flying when the weather cleared.
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united airlines
Thinking of flying today? You may want to think again. United is offering travel waivers for those of you flying in or out of the following states:
Colorado; Connecticut; Illinois; Indiana; Massachusetts; Maryland; Michigan; Missouri; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Wisconsin.
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chicago
CBS2 Chicago is reporting that American and United, O'Hare's biggest carriers, are urging people to rebook flights in and out of Chicago. "Because of the weather both American and United are allowing passengers to rebook their flights without penalty, and some have already taken advantage of that.
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Consumerist
