Universal passengers stranded T&T Newsday 05.10.03 Scores of passengers on Universal airline were due to leave for New York last night, days later than planned. An airline official said the flight was due to leave at 9 pm last night. The flight was reportedly delayed because of a problem with the aircraft. The official said at first Universal planned to change the aircraft but decided to fly in a part Thursday night and fix the problem at Piarco. One passenger had been stranded in Trinidad for two weeks, while others were supposed to leave since last week Sunday. Some passengers were leaving a day later than planned. One passenger said some members of his family had to return home a day earlier than planned because of problems with the airline. Passengers complained yesterday that they were not informed of what was going on. Some said they had been in the airport since 6 am yesterday morning. Some had been going back to the airport for days trying to get a flight back home. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.cso.gov.tt TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************