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Quotes of the week

13 MAY: A selection of the more memorable travel-related comments appearing in the media this week.

"If I have to stuff four million people around for one morning and that gets my kids and other kids help one day sooner, I have achieved my goal".

Man who shut down the Sydney Harbour Bridge for two hours this morning by climbing it with ropes and unfurling banners protesting against perceived failings in state child welfare services.


"I am begging you your honour. I have reached an age (22) where I need to find a groom and start a family. And without my father it is very difficult. This could harm my match-making process. My whole future depends on it".

The daughter of an Israeli rabbi convicted of groping a woman on a Delta flight from Tel Aviv to New York pleading with a judge this week not to impose a prison sentence. The plea was in vain. Her 48-year-old father was yesterday jailed for 60 days.


"The country thinks we’re in lifeboats and we are underwater. For visitors, it’s business as usual".

Kevin Kane, president and chief executive of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau talking to media as the Mississippi River neared its highest-ever 1937 flood level on Wednesday.


"We were not able to discern whether detainees were able to dine in Queens Grill, Princess Grill or the more mass-market Britannia Grill".

Popular US cruise website cruisecritic.com commenting on the disclosure this week that 12 illegal immigrants were arrested in New York after cruising from Dubai on Queen Mary 2.


"I know that I have a lot of weight to lose but I am definitely not too fat to fly. It was the worst time I’ve ever had in my whole life. I was embarrassed, humiliated".

US airline passenger Kenlie Tiggeman talking to media after being bumped from as Southwest Airlines flight because of her size.

 
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News in Brief for 22 May

GREEK CANCELLATIONS Europe low-fare carrier Ryanair has reportedly confirmed that it will cut 82 flights a week to the Greek holiday islands of Rhodes and Kos after local authorities allegedly failed to honour a joint summer marketing campaign with the airline.

STANSTED STRIKE Baggage handlers at London’s Stansted airport plan a series of strikes from this weekend after negotiations on shift changes broke down. The 150 workers are employed by Swissport, which handles baggage for Ryanair and a number of UK holiday airlines.

AIRLINE DENIES CUTS Air France-KLM denied plans to cut 5,000 jobs by 2015 through a voluntary redundancy plan, as reported by French daily Le Figaro. "For the moment there are absolutely no negotiations about possible job cuts, these are just rumours," a spokeswoman told reporters.

MEXICAN REVIVAL? Mexicana Airlines, which suspended flights for financial reasons in August 2010, may re-launch operations next month after Spanish hotel and air transport group Med Atlantica acquired 95% of the bankrupt carrier’s shares.

THAI SACKING The board of Thai Airways is reported to have sacked the airline’s chairman, with a spokesman saying he was "unable to work in unity with the strategy committee".