The family's flight was canceled due to the hurricane which passed to the south of Haiti. The whole of Sundays flights were canceled I guess. No one was at the airport at all. Madame spent the night at the hotel right by the airport; Visa Lodge.
This morning the AA staff at the airport sent everyone up to the American Airlines bureau at Delmas 32, quite a ways from the airport. Everyone who was denied a flight yesterday had to go there. Must have been a lot of people. Took her a number of hours to get to the counter; the kids went to sleep under the feet of the crowd.
She got a ticket to Miami, but not to Toronto. Hm.
The date of this flight? Aug 30. Ten days from now. Eleven days after the scheduled flight. They apparently do not care to send any extra planes to Port au Prince to pick up the days worth of passengers who were stranded.
They also do not feel any obligation to pay anything for this 10 day (no, 11 days) delay. AA is treating everyone like Haitians. No respect or concern at all.
Apparently there was a riot at the AA office when people started learning that they would be waiting many days, weeks for some people, for a flight to replace one days cancellation.
She said that the crowd smashed the windows of the office and the police had to be called. Must have been exciting with ti Emile-Alex having 18 months now, and two days after Roxie's fifth birthday party.
They are now at the hotel in PetionVille where Roxanne was born. Well, the hotel where we lived when Roxie was born. I'll have to call the Maitre to arrange the payment.
I guess kindergarten for Roxie will have to wait.
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