Stranded Sunwing passengers fly home to Quebec on New England Patriots’ jet | 24CA News
With cancelled flights and stranded passengers, Sunwing has been all around the news throughout the holidays for all of the flawed causes.
One story of how a bunch of Quebecers bought again to Canada, nevertheless, will make you do a double take.
After being stranded for days within the Dominican Republic, they had been in a position to get dwelling due to the New England Patriots soccer workforce.
“I am very happy to be home,” stated Maryse Plourde, a resident of Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area.
Plourde was a part of a bunch of 14 members of her household who escaped the chilly on an all-inclusive Sunwing journey to a Dominican resort.
It was after they tried to get dwelling that the difficulty started.
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Plourde defined to Global News that the airport shuttle by no means got here to get them on December 27, the day they had been speculated to fly again to Quebec at 4 p.m.
After paying their very own solution to the airport, she says the group discovered their flight was delayed.
“We spent 12 hours at the airport,” she stated, portray an image of an disagreeable scenario in 30-degree warmth with a bunch of crying, exhausted kids sleeping on the ground.
She says at 1 a.m., the group was informed by Sunwing reps that they had been being transferred to busses to go to a resort, and that they won’t be capable to go away the nation till January 2.
On December 29, Sunwing despatched them again to the airport within the afternoon, however that flight was delayed too, main to a different 12 hours of ready.
They almost bought on a flight, however had been informed the pilot was too exhausted to fly and had failed a cognitive take a look at.
“We left for the hotel at 4:30 a.m, and we had to be back at the airport for noon,” she stated, expressing gratitude for the Sunwing-paid resorts, however colossal disappointment for the dearth of communication and workers members who had little info.
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After a number of hours of sleep, on December 30, they lastly got here head to head with the plane Sunwing despatched to deliver dozens of Quebec households dwelling.
It was a airplane belonging to the NFL’s New England Patriots.
“It was incredible,” Plourde stated with a smile. The group was in disbelief.
Plourde shortly observed the roomy seats supposed for hulking soccer gamers, and was impressed with the legroom.
“It was very comfortable,” she stated.
There was some disappointment among the many Quebecois passengers that the crew couldn’t converse French, however no main complaints.
Sunwing didn’t reply to Global News’ request for touch upon Sunday.
Plourde doesn’t assume she’ll ever journey with the corporate once more after a voyage that gave re-patriation a complete new that means.
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