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Post by me on Jul 24, 2003 19:10:40 GMT -5
Now i know, next time i visit central Canada, i'll go Greyhound! Sounds great! I must admit the expensive thing is true! There is no such thing as a backpacking fee! So a hole is made in tour budget when travelling by train cause canadians don't use trains as much as europeans so the fee is higher! Still a good service too though! xoxo jen |
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Post by CuriousToronto on Jul 25, 2003 6:23:54 GMT -5
In terms of planes/bombs/news...........nothing can beat the experience we once had............... It was the day we were leaving the old country to come to Canada (for good). Anywayz, I was 8. TACA used to have this habit of giving you a copy of that day's newspaper when you got on the plane. So I remember filing in with my mother ahead of us and we all got a copy. We sat down and looked at the front page. Ayyyyaaaa!!  The date was December 22nd, 1988. The picture on the front cover was the Pan Am crash! Enough to scare the living daylights out of anyone............As a general rule I think it's bad to give boarding passengers pictures of a plane crash! That was engraved in my impresionable young mind forever!!  |
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Post by WillTravel on Jul 25, 2003 13:24:06 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about that experience, CT.
I have a somewhat similar one. I was flying home to Vancouver from San Francisco a few years ago. An hour before leaving, I saw on TV there had been an Alaska Airlines crash for a flight that was to land at SFO (it actually crashed fairly near LAX in the ocean). When I got to the airport, I several times heard announcements over the PA telling people who were "meeters and greeters" for flight XYZ (can't remember the number) to come to such and such desk. Obviously they were about to be told that the people they were there to meet would not be coming. But this announcement was done with discretion - no one else at the airport would guess necessarily that there had been a tragedy if they hadn't seen the news.
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