You know who I feel sorry for?
The Daughter. Nine year old Phoebe. She has to grow up with parents like this. What hope does she have? Add to that the fact that this ‘news’ report will stay online for ever and ever (or until the internet breaks).
I’m talking about THIS story.
How fu**ing stupid does one have to be to get a ticket with “Bodrum” printed on it, get on the plane, and not say a word until you arrive in Turkey. Apparently they “fell asleep” (for the full duration of the flight, including the take-off announcements where i’ve seen flight crew wake people up to make sure their seatbelts are fastened? Including the food service? Including the landing? Hmm.
Yes, the serviseair rep made a cock-up, but a minor one which would have been resolved if the passengers hadn’t been to fu**ing thick to realise the boarding pass was for the wrong country. Surely they would have noticed when going through a gate with a big LCD screen proudly proclaiming “Bodrum” as the final destination.
Forget carbon footprints, forget taxes and fuel duty. When i’m in charge, the first rule of international travel should be that you know the name (or at the very least, the location) of the airport to which you wish to travel. If you can’t muster that much common sense, then there is too high a risk of you cocking something else up when you get there, and in all likeliehood calling upon the services of the local consular representative, thereby costing us our hard-earned tax pounds.
So, the poor Coray family, will miss their seven nights in the sun. Burning on the beach by day, supping British beer in the Red Lion whilst watching Coronation Street on Sky at night.
The poor woman who works for Servisair has now been suspended pending investigation. Yes, she made a mistake, but it’s the braindead passengers’ fault that they ended up in Turkey. What the F*CK is the world coming too?!?!
I’m also quite annoyed with the BBC Wales reporter who loads up the question “in this day of heightened security, how do you feel about waking up on the other side of the continent?”. So much for balanced reporting. Oh, and their original flight was to a totally different continent, unless Lanzarote has sprouted sails and floated up the side of Africa to join it’s other Spanish island cousins.
Which all leads me on nicely to my friend Zaheer… who was also in Turkey, but that was the plan. The plan wasn’t to get crashed into by a trucker though. Read all about it and donate HERE….
July 21, 2008
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