"Cathy Kearns" wrote:
>I suspect in the case you cite 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.
It may also have to do with the state of the tide, how much they have
to pay the tug boats and harbor people for overtime and how close the
next stop is and how easy it will be for pax to catch up there.
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>"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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