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September 17, 2007

Strand-in on the mall Wednesday-- Wash Post story

Strand-In+Map.jpg There's a nice opener in Monday's Washington Post for Wednesday's airline passenger strand-in event on the mall Wednesday. The story by Del Quentin Wilber is called Anger over Airline Delays Spurs Passengers' Coalition Into Action. It includes a nice feature on Coalition for an Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights founder Kate Hanni and quotes coalition research director Mark Mogel commenting that "The airlines picked a fight with the wrong woman." While the story notes that Mogel's "test flight" of the strand-in's mock plane was held on the runway Sunday due to lack of a permit for a local park, CAPBOR does have one for Wednesday. Come to the Mall between 11am-1pm to participate and sit in the "plane." The event will be mid-mall, at 12th Street, between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. By the way, as the Post notes, someone has hacked the coalition's blog. But there's a temporary site up and running, and the flyersrights.org site is also up with background on CAPBOR.

Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at September 17, 2007 04:04 AM


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