Originally Posted by
HoboPilot
I heard something about the passengers getting a $500 voucher. That hardly seems like fair compensation for sitting next to sh!t for 7 hours.
Would it have been possible for CAL to fly out an extra airplane upon learning of this problem to pick up the passengers, and then to ferry the plane with the broken lavs back to EWR for repair? Although it would have cost CAL quite a bit of money it seems like it could have saved them a big PR problem.
CAL doesn't have spare airplanes. The 757/767's they do have fly 20 hrs a day. Would you wait for a plane to arrive from Newark? It's 6 hours each way. The plane diverted to Shannon to fix the LAV. It worked, they took off, the glove stopped it up again. They didn't know about the glove then. It would have been fine if they just didn't use that LAV. Stupid people can't read the big sign on the LAV seat back telling them not to put trash in the toilet. Find the idiot and make him give everyone on the plane $500 cash.