Last Tuesday, the regular Delta Airlines flight from Portland, OR to Amsterdam experienced  a bit of mechanical trouble with cabin pressurization.  The Airbus A330 had to be diverted when it had already started out over the Atlantic and chose Goose Bay as its diversion, the closest airport available.

After landing in heavy rain, the passengers were house in the military base housing and fed in the military base cafeteria and generally killed time on base by doing things like playing tag in the parking lot.  It was an idyllic vacation.

A substitute aircraft didn’t arrive until Wednesday and, when it did, the crew for that aircraft timed out and couldn’t make the remaining 5 hour trip to Amsterdam.

Several passengers whose purpose in Europe had already passed were unable to simply turn around and go home but, instead, had to finish their trip to Amsterdam instead.  The original crew flew the now repaired original aircraft with passengers late Wednesday evening.

Delta gets you there.

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