The two-day flight from Ireland to Boston
Just over 100 passengers and I discovered on Wednesday how truly inconvenient it can be to have a flight cancelled during peak season. Although tensions were high, a reassuring camaraderie developed between everyone stranded by whatever mechanical fault befell flight EI 135 to Boston.
Our netherworld didn’t compare to real crises but it did give us all a tiny sense of what Edward Snowden must have gone through in Moscow Airport; we were neither here nor there, we were in a hotel in Shannon.
