En lang historie om snøkaos og Sahara

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Ikke min egen, men fant den på Flyertalk. Godt skrevet (litt gandalfsk) og ikke minst gir det en god innsikt i de utfordringer og den kreativitet som utvises for å få holde hjulene () i gang:

Thank God for Police with submachine guns. They have the ability to make even the most argumentative and irrational passenger shut up.
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The German passengers love quoting EU regulations about hotel accomodation but last I checked the EU didn't have a magic spell to help us pull hotel rooms out of our arse in a snowstorm.

Mangel på de-ice i Afrika:

He calls me over and asks if we have deicing trucks available on the field. I laugh at the thought. It is 30C at midnight and the lowest recorded temperature in the history of the airport was 17C.

Og om en nødlanding "in the middel of nowhere"

First step is to pull up the database and see where exactly Ghardaia is and what they might find there. It's not promising. If you take a dart and threw it into the middle of the Sahara, chances are you will wind up pretty close to Ghardaia.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-...00-snoclo.html