I suspect in the case you site a reasonable percentage of the ships
passengers were caught in the mess. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a
threshold, say 100 passengers missing, we'll wait, 99 we sail.
"Dick G" wrote in message
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> "Lee Lindquist" wrote in message
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> > Gee, I had two personal experiences with cruise air and blizzards.
> > In one case, we completely missed the ship in San Juan, flew onward,
> > and caught up to it several days later in Aruba.
> >
> > In the other case, which was a group, we abandoned the group
> > and went directly to the airport and begged to fly out before
> > it closed. BOS-IAH the 'night before', then onward on the
> > scheduled connection to ACA the next morning.
> > The people who remained behind in Boston were delayed,
> > missed the connection, and missed the ship. They caught
> > up several days later.
> >
> > In my personal experience, 'they' do not hold the ship.
> >
> > In my personal observation, 'they' do not hold the ship more
> > than an hour or two beyond the schedule sailing time, even
> > if there are air/sea passengers delayed beyond that.
> >
> > --
> > - Lee
>
> As I mentioned in an earlier post we were scheduled to sail at 5PM from
> Vancouver on Crystal Symphony in 1995 when a terrible accident closed the
> road leading to Canada Place. The ship waited until 10PM before we sailed
> because passengers were delayed.
> --
> DG in Cherry Hill, NJ
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