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HOLIDAY HORROR STORIES
fares not always @ bargain

"VE HAD my share of being stranded in airports. Some are

7 Getter. than others, but when you’re sitting on a pile of bag-

e;<often® ‘hoping to connect with someone or something

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ca “another | continent, it’s hell.

I know we ail try to save moncy
on airfares wherever we can but
some of the attempted savings cost .
so much. It’s like the housewiie ©
“who . buys .a .case of cut-rate
“spaghetti sauce and finds she has
to take her family out to dinner
because no one can stomach the
‘stuff. |:

"What good is a cheap fare if you

Some cut-rate airlines, especially -

foreign ones, have o simple policy
Yor sorting outa no-show. They
just move on to the next scheduled
load of passengers when they final-
ly get ‘“‘old Limpy’’ off the
ground. :

The stranded ones are left to the
mercy’ of Mother Nature — grow
wings or buy a one-way. ticket
home. Priced those lately?

Even the major airlines can run
into glitches, but thzy have a better
chance of putting things right.
‘They have the staff and the experi-

‘ence to make the wait as pieasant
: as possible. They have the facilities

- to get.a repair job done now, sot
.- day-after-tomorrow.

spend the first three days. of your
holiday ‘time’ sitting on your bags

. While‘ the room you've rented at

your destination sits vacunt?
Worse, what if you get docked

three days’ pay when you fail to

arrive home on time?

ea

. than

Some foreign cut-raters fly.
equipment that would scare hell
out of the Archbishop. One
globe-trotting friend of mine
waited days in the jungle rather
climb back aboard the
rustbucket she’d arrived in.

Anether friend teld me about

one “‘charter’? in the far - East
. where the seats had Gace sat
. around a kitchen table and lunch
was scrambled eggs dumped out of -

‘a tin bucket.

- . One problem is that your travel
_agent raay be unaware when book-

ing you aboard ‘“‘Bongo-Bongo”’
airlines that their repair depart-

ment consists of three chimpanzees
- with & rall of bailing wire. :

The boast, ‘‘We’ve never lost a
passenger’’ could well mean that
they issue parachutes on the rare

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ground.

If you’ve any doubis abcut any
flight or airline that you may be
urged to book, get some datz.

The Vanconver Public Library
kesys a huge collection of reparts
and statistics. You might alsy be
interested in statistics available
about certain airports that are
blackbelled by re;utable pilots. It
may make you change your plans.

As for my own plans, I stick
with the names I know. Even then
I.can give yeu such a list of air-
ports I’ve been stranded in: Y:
couver, Denver, Salt Lake City,
Los Angeles, New. York, London
Heathrow, Genoa, Buenos Aires,
Puerto Alegre... The good ews is
that I always made ‘it home. —

I enjoy the iaput I get ‘from

friends ard readers. Many travel to .

places I’ve never been, or gone
routes that I’d never considered.
For example, our choice of a Ha-

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I'd not even considered a cruise,
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friend, ap airline executive, swears
that this was one of the best holi-
days he ever spent. :

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Christmas in Hawaii has a

special appeal for people who, for
one reason or another, aren’t

-plenning the regular home-tree-

family occasion. find you, Frosty
the Snowman sounds mighty funny
being piped through Honclulu

Airport.

One hint: If you decide to spend
Christmas in ‘Hawaii, postpone
your major gift excl:ange unti! you
return, Canada Customs will show
their appreciation in the only way

they can. .
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at Buffalo. Jump, sear Fort
Macleod. -

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kill for the opportunity to feature
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