Complaint: Canceled / Delayed / Overbooked Continental left 216 students stranded
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Old Dec 28, 2010, 3:10 PM
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I live 20mins from Newark airport and I'm flying out on Thursday....we got 25inches of snow from the blizzard with strong wind gusts

There was nothing continental could do about flights as the storm dumped all that snow and closed the airport

They now have to find flights for those who couldn't make it on yesterdays flights with those who are scheduled and ticketed for today's and tomorrows flights......so they won't have 200+ extra seats on a single plane and it's not so easy just to say bring in another plane

Other people have important obligations to meet too

Continental didn't strand them, the blizzard did....the runways taxiways and gates all had to be cleared