{"id":581845,"date":"2010-05-27T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10007146"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:45:04","slug":"united-leaves-sleeping-passenger-on-plane-for-4-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581845","title":{"rendered":"United Leaves Sleeping Passenger On Plane For 4 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/unitedbw-thumb-240x180-40767.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rough few weeks for United Airlines. First, they <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/united-sick-of-breaking-guitars-tries-to-set-olsen-twin-on-fire.html\" >try to incinerate an Olsen Twin<\/a>, then they <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/united-leaves-blind-passenger-on-plane.html\" >left a blind passenger on board after they&#8217;d let everyone else off the plane<\/a>. Now, Continental&#8217;s betrothed is having to explain how they managed to not notice a sleeping passenger who remained on board her plane for four hours after it touched down.<\/p>\n<p>That four hours is about four times as long as the passenger spent in the air on her United Express flight from Washington&#8217;s Dulles airport to Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>The flight landed shortly after midnight, but no one noticed Rip Van Winkle until a cleaning crew woke her up around 4 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re reminded of the Air Canada passenger earlier this year, who <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/04\/dont-fall-asleep-on-a-plane-you-might-wake-up-in-the-hangar.html\" >fell asleep on a flight to Vancouver<\/a> and woke up several hours after arrival in the hangar at the airport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/travel\/sns-ap-us-left-on-plane,0,2751483.story\" >Sleeping passenger left on plane for 4 hours after it lands in Philadelphia<\/a> [Chicago Tribune]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a rough few weeks for United Airlines. First, they try to incinerate an Olsen Twin, then they left a blind passenger on board after they&#8217;d let everyone else off the plane. Now, Continental&#8217;s betrothed is having to explain how they managed to not notice a sleeping passenger who remained on board her plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}