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Jan 21, 2019, 5:54 pm

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the similar occurrence back in 2015. United Strands Hundreds in Remote Goose Bay for 20+ Hours That time, they did offload the pax into unheated barracks. But it took UA an inexplicably long time to come and get them that time, too.

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Originally Posted by prestonh

It appears that UA ops chose to keep delaying the rescue flight instead of sending one of the early morning EWR flights up there and rescheduling a revenue flight.

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Originally Posted by Jeff767

Delta recently diverted a aircraft to Shemya where the temp was 32F at the time. They pulled a aircraft and crews from revenue flights and arrived in Shemya 6 hours after the aircraft landed. Shemya is 2300 miles from SEA. YYR is 950 miles from EWR.

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