Air Travelers Stranded

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Air Travelers Still Stranded
(CBS News, 2010)
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6409072n&tag=api
The international terminals around New York look more like youth hostels than airports.
We, we dunno how long we’re gonna (be) stuck here.
With no flights and nowhere to go, travelers, many with children, are sleeping on cots.
Has it been hard?
Um, for me it’s not so hard, but for my wife it’s very hard.
Living on cookies, chips and water given to them by the airlines and going days without a shower,
passengers are relying on the kindness of strangers.
Does anyone want soap?
Nearly every flight between the US and Europe has been cancelled since a cloud of volcanic ash blanketed
the atmosphere. Of three hundred (and) thirty-seven daily transaltantic flights, two hundred (and) eighty
were cancelled Friday; two hundred (and) eighty-two Saturday and today three hundred (and) ten were
grounded.
This is really a major disaster for the US carriers, because partly because their bread and butter, uh, routes
are the transatlantic routes.
An impact (is) also being felt globally. Industry analysts estimate the airlines are losing more than twohundred million dollars each day they don’t fly.
For now travelers have no choice but to wait, some without a flight reservation for at least a week.
Are you going to live in the airport until Sunday?
Yes, I, uh, I must!
And rebooking passengers is going to be a headache for the airlines. Even when the planes start flying again,
there just won’t be enough seats to go around. Russ…
Manuel Gallegus across the Hudson in Newark, New Jersey. Thank you.
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to be stranded
to look more like youth hostels
we dunno (langage familier)
we’re gonna be stuck here
nowhere
a cot
cookies
to go days without a shower
to rely on the kindness of strangers
soap
ash
to blanket
of three hundred …
to be grounded
no choice but to wait
a headache
there just won’t be enough seats
to go around
être coincé (‘naufragé’)
ressembler plus à des auberges de jeunesse
= we don’t know
nous allons être bloqués ici
nulle part
un lit de camp
biscuits
passer des jours sans pouvoir prendre une douche
compter sur la gentillesse d’inconnus
savon
cendre
couvrir
sur trois cents..
être cloué au sol
pas d’autre choix que d’attendre
un mal de tête
il n’y aura tout simplement pas assez de places
(dans l’avion) pour tout le monde