- The full flight from Gainesville, Florida, was canceled, even though passengers could see their plane sitting on the tarmac
- The Delta plane that the Florida Gators’ chartered to get to Storrs, Connecticut, for a game had been grounded with mechanical problems
PUBLISHED: 09:45 EST, 3 December 2013 | UPDATED: 10:21 EST, 3 December 2013
Fifty passengers had their holiday travel plans disrupted on Sunday when Delta Airlines kicked 50 people off a full flight so it could use the plane for the Florida Gators basketball team.
Delta says it needed the plane to ferry the No. 15-ranked Gators to Storrs, Connecticut, for the team’s match-up against the UConn Huskies.
Furious passengers in Gainesville, Florida, were told their flight to Atlanta Sunday afternoon had been canceled – even though they could see their plane sitting on the tarmac.
Delta canceled the flight from Gainesville to Atlanta on Sunday as travelers were trying to get home from the Thanksgiving holiday
The Gainesville Sun reports that one passenger missed a funeral. Another didn’t get home in time to meet his moving truck. Another had to drive to Atlanta in order to get to her meeting on time.
Many others were returning home from the Thanksgiving holiday.
‘It just felt like the wrong decision made by somebody who didn’t think it through,’ one furious passenger told the newspaper.
Delta admits that it canceled Flight 5059 because it needed the plane for the Gators basketball team.
The plane that the team had chartered with Delta experienced mechanical problems and could not fly.
The team needed to get to Storrs on Sunday night so that it could play the Huskies Monday night, an athletics department spokesman told the Sun
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