Originally Posted by
kettle1
If UA does not want to have a "local" handle things - give the crew a credit card and handle it. Call the local pizza shop and order 100 pizzas and some sodas and beer. (This was mentioned up-thread).
There is an assumption there: that the local pizza joint could produce that many pizzas and that pizza makes a good breakfast.
Originally Posted by
kettle1
I am sure when the plane diverted to YYR - the entire town knew about it.
So some in the town may have heard it. How many could tell from the noise that it was an aircraft in distress and full of passengers rather than a cargo aircraft, a military aircraft, a routing fueling stop of a corporate jet or a chartered passenger aircraft, or a widebody aircraft being ferried through YYR on delivery?
No problem with being critical of UA, but one ought be realistic when doing so.