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British Airways Resumes Flights After 2-Day Strike

Posted on: Saturday, 13 August 2005, 18:00 CDT

A nearly 48-hour airport horror show experienced by thousands of British Airways passengers at Boston's Logan International Airport and across the world should come to a merciful end today for many travelers.

British Airways resumed flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport yesterday following a two-day strike by ground crews - but not before hundreds of flights were cancelled and thousands of passengers were stranded.

About 10 British Airways arrivals and departures were cancelled at Logan, an airport spokeswoman said.

Full service isn't expected to resume until today as the airline deals with a backlog of passengers who couldn't reschedule flights and found themselves stranded at airports across the globe during a peak travel period.

At Logan's Terminal E yesterday, British Airways personnel were rerouting hundreds of passengers to other airlines, including Lufthansa and Alitalia.

"I'm one of the refugees," joked Amherst resident Israel Koren, on his way to London with his wife.

Koren's 6 p.m. flight on Thursday was cancelled. The couple was put up for the night at the Embassy Suite Hotel at Logan by British Airways and was scheduled to leave Boston yesterday at 6:40 p.m on Alitalia.

"(The strike) is ending but I don't know if there's going to be a backup and for how long," said Aneesh Taneja, 21, a Northeastern University student who was scheduled to leave Boston last night to catch a connecting flight in London to Bombay, India.

Stephanie Nicholas, a spokeswoman for Boston-based tour operator Grand Circle, said it had nine travelers stuck in London, midway to their safari destination in South Africa. Fifty travel customers were stuck in London trying to get back to the United States, while another 28 travelers were delayed leaving America for Europe, she said.

Source: Boston Herald

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