Did they ever return? No, they never return. And their fate is still unlearned
To borrow from a Kingston Trio song.
The Kingston Trio came out with a song of a man commuting into Boston, after paying a lower fair, could not cover the higher fare which changed during this commute on the MTA.
Well, one of our congregational friends set off to Atlanta, Georgia, with her daughter to attend a family wedding. They flew out of Spokane this morning, but their flight out of SEATAC was cancelled and they had to take four alternate flights to make it to NYC this evening. They have a flight for Atlanta as we speak.
But it will be anyone's guess how they will be able to return, since by Monday it will likely be worse.
Has anyone else been hearing--or experiencing--something similar?
Gayle King, from CBS News, was to fly to the West Coast today. She said she had three tickets on separate airlines, just in case, which is okay if you have the money or a company travel budget to work from.
https://youtu.be/S7Jw_v3F_Q0
The Kingston Trio came out with a song of a man commuting into Boston, after paying a lower fair, could not cover the higher fare which changed during this commute on the MTA.
Well, one of our congregational friends set off to Atlanta, Georgia, with her daughter to attend a family wedding. They flew out of Spokane this morning, but their flight out of SEATAC was cancelled and they had to take four alternate flights to make it to NYC this evening. They have a flight for Atlanta as we speak.
But it will be anyone's guess how they will be able to return, since by Monday it will likely be worse.
Has anyone else been hearing--or experiencing--something similar?
Gayle King, from CBS News, was to fly to the West Coast today. She said she had three tickets on separate airlines, just in case, which is okay if you have the money or a company travel budget to work from.
https://youtu.be/S7Jw_v3F_Q0
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I think all Charlie needed was a nickel to get off the train.
It’s a playful critique of bureaucracy and fare hikes, suggesting that even love and sandwiches can’t overcome a system that’s rigged against the common person.
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While the Kingston Trio made the song famous, they didn’t write it. It was written in 1948. Walter A. O’Brien, a Progressive Party candidate for mayor of Boston who couldn’t afford radio ads, hired folksingers Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes to write it and sing it from a truck as it drove around Boston. (The Kingston Trio changed O’Brien’s name to George, as Walter A. O’Brien had been blacklisted as a Communist, which he denied.) The song is, of course, based on “The Wreck of Old 97”, which in turn is based on “The Ship that Never Returned.”
As an aside, the smart fare card for the now-Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is called the “CharlieCard,” and bears a picture of Charlie. Having grown up on the Kingston Trio, that really cracked me up when I encountered it in Boston.
I ask again: who is planning on flying in the US during the holidays?
Not us, and we're not going by train either - they've been booked solid for a long time.
But, since the kids live approximately five hours from us, assuming good roads, we often drive. We kind of expect a little heavier cross state traffic if the airlines stay down. Time will tell.
Yeah, it's an indictment of people who don't understand how inflation works. Something that directly addressed stagnant wages would be more effective.
This morning, our local morning commuter flight to SEATAC was delayed by an hour. Not sure why.
From the sounds of it, while the Senate has voted to end the shutdown, it will still take time for final passage of the necessary bills in both houses, the president's signature, and then the process of getting Air Traffic Controllers back on line for all the travel disruptions to clear.
And this is to say nothing about SNAP recipients getting what's due them--that is a topic for another thread.
Again, could be subject of another thread.
Even though Shutdown may end tomorrow, CNN reports it may take months for everything to get back to normal.