Cabin pressure drop sends Brits to Athens, not Egypt

by Tom Johansmeyer on

A charter flight bound for Egypt made an emergency landing in Athens when cabin pressure dropped. The flight originated in Manchester, England and carried 192 passengers. Five passengers complaining of ear pain were taken to a local hospital as a precaution, according to the Greek state television station. No other injuries were reported.

Jet2.com, the low-cost carrier operating the flight, has said through a spokesman that it was sending another plane to Athens to pick up the stranded passengers and complete the journey. When’s the plane coming?

“Sometime during the night” …

Reports have included no mention of whether the passengers received free meals, like those aboard a flight that crashed at London’s City Airport last month. One can only hope that stomach contents lost are going to be replaced.

Cities That Need a Vacation

by Iva Skoch on

The August 2007 issue of Men’s Health (don’t ask me why I read it being a woman of poor heath) gathered a list of the “most workaholic” U.S. cities. They measured how residents punch the clock and logged their overtime; monitored their commute times, blood pressure and self-reported stress.

Yep, you are all wrong … New York ranked 37 on the list.

Here is the Top 10 list of cities that are all work, no play:

  1. Manchester, NH
  2. San Francisco, CA
  3. Denver, CO
  4. Orlando, FL
  5. Durham, NC
  6. Charlotte, NC
  7. Aurora, CO
  8. Boise, ID
  9. Seattle, WA
  10. Anaheim, CA

Least workaholic? Milwaukee, WI; El Paso, TX; and Rochester, NY. Go figure!

Apparently, survey shows that people could leave work 44 days earlier if they just cut back on Web surfing. Not suggesting, you should log off from Gadling, of course.