Sort of a layover…. Because of weather, we left Newark five hours late and arrived today during the afternoon in Belfast. In about 10 hours, we leave for India for a pastoral visit (which you can read about elsewhere on the blog) for two weeks. I don’t know how I’m finding the time to write on the blog, in the midst of unpacking and repacking and the confusion of time zones. But a nice update is good, right?

We were two weeks in the United States seeing friends and family, which was mostly good, minus allergies and mild sickness affecting our short off-time.

We’re used to the possibility of air travel delays in our mode of living. However, I am still a bit frustrated at the lack of airline responsibility regarding weather related delays. They basically have to do nothing, and as a result I’ve spent overnights and days in airports in the past because of cancelled flights, and recently, these five hours of little information, and of course, no vouchers for food or anything. I know it’s not really their fault that aircraft get held up by weather, but is it the travelers fault that they don’t have any extra aircraft or air-traffic management to deal with those largely common occurrences? And certainly it’s not the company’s fault in those situations, but they are still under law responsible to pay their staff overtime. Why not any sort of concessions (at least regarding food and accommodation) for their loyal customers?

Anyways, we’ve still time to make our flight to India and get ready. And we’re not loud complainers. I’m just giving some thoughts towards the logic of ‘market guided’ consumer related laws. Perhaps the FFA should take a look at some of their regulations and some of what their European counterparts have in place. But I understand it’s hard times for the airlines. Right?

Catch you in few weeks! God bless.