[Brian D]

There is a group of 20 students and 3 chaperones from Fairport NY who have been stranded at Newark airport since Friday night 02/17/201(This is Sunday night). Continental was late getting an airplane to Rochester NY to pick them up, so they missed their connection to another Continental flight in Newark that was supposed to take them directly to Ireland. They apparently could not get them on any other flight Friday or Saturday and finally they booked them on a flight for Sunday evening to Ireland through Frankfurt. Well, that fell through as there are strikes in Frankfurt (which they were fully aware of) so they didn't want to send them there, but they sent their luggage there after not letting them have it since Friday afternoon. So...... another night stranded, an apparent change in airlines for a (hopefully) flight to Atlanta and then Ireland Monday afternoon 72 hours after they got checked in at Continentals desk in Rochester. Can not believe that an airline the size of Continental, with the connections they have, have been unable or unwilling to get them to Ireland. Disgraceful. This isn't a blizzard or mechanical problem, this is a logistical failure and needs to be corrected.