The Layover
Things heat up when a flight crew stay at the same hotel in a small town…
It was one of those days. If it could go wrong, it did. What should have been a quick, routine flight to end the day had dragged into hours stuck on the tarmac. We couldn’t leave the gate because the plane would be due for routine maintenance upon arrival at its last stop, and there was nobody in the small town who could complete it. Rather than switch all the passengers and luggage to a new plane, the airline decided to...