The good news is that since we have only a few passengers on board, we can disembark quickly.
"Having performed an exotic dance and an opening song, 26-year-old stewardess Lin Lin won resounding ovation from the few passengers in the audience, " Xinhua recounts.
The ship was laden with munitions, crew and a few paying passengers, and its rescue has gone down in history as a catalogue of errors.
"Passengers have very few rights and many of the ones on paper are not really enforced, " says Paul Hudson, executive director of the nonprofit Aviation Consumer Action Project, which advocates for airline passengers.
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As the offensive continues, passengers over the next few years are bound to get nicer, quieter aircraft.
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Virgin America, which in March collected six iPads left behind from 527, 000 passengers, with a few iPads still unclaimed, invested in a massive charging station to power up lost devices.
So following on from the piece I wrote on the old Mind the Gap blog (RIP) about saving money on fares, I've come across another way for rail passengers to save a few quid.
Meanwhile, the U.S. said a U.S. military helicopter crashed near the North Korean border Tuesday during joint military drills with South Korean forces, but that there were only a few light injuries among the 21 passengers.
The report published on Tuesday - part-funded by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - looked more at changes in the average weight and height of passengers in the past few decades than the highly-publicised fears over so-called "traveller's thrombosis".
The fire was quickly contained, but passengers are making do with few working toilets and little food.
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The train departs, and though most of the passengers have gone, a few stay behind to peer through the massive armature of the portholes, as if in search of a parallel existence.
On the evening when the heavens opened, few taxi drivers went on duty, leaving passengers stranded across the city.
For example, by keeping a few extra planes on hand a carrier could accommodate passengers stranded by other airlines following a blizzard.
Even before TRAX, Salt Lake, just 6-miles outside of town, was one of the very few US cities offering scheduled free airport tours for passengers with layovers of 2-hours or more.
If you have wondered why connections are so slow it is because presently there are only a few megabytes of bandwidth that must be shared among all passengers and facilities on any ship.
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But for the next few minutes, the carriage became little Caracas, with passengers clapping and cheering as Limardo's crew taught them how to say "Well done" in Spanish and led them in Venezuelan chants.
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And some passengers due to fly with BA in the next few days will find their flights cancelled because of contingency plans already set in action.
Aside from being grateful that all the passengers apparently got out safely, there are a few things we can take away from this incident.
His only fellow-passengers were happy-looking families heading out for a few days at the beach.
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said it was a "rolling programme" but said passengers would start to see the benefits "within the next few months".
So Samoa Air will let a few kilos slide, but the airline is unlikely to provide a refund if passengers roll up to the tarmac with a lighter load.
If it can be determined that signals do not interfere with the pilots' transmissions, should passengers now be allowed to use their electronic gadgets even in those few minutes?
Although airport hotels have offered this service for transiting passengers for more than a decade, it is only in the last few years that city hotels have jumped on the idea, hoping to maximise the use of rooms that would otherwise be sitting empty.
So passengers, managers and employees all look set for a bumpy ride in the next few months.
Buses will ferry passengers to and from the town's railway and bus stations, just a few minutes away.
As we approach the end of the line, one of the passengers breaks into a song, as if to urge the tired train on those last few miles to Petushki.
Drivers rev the motors of their beat-up vehicles, shouting in Chinese and Mongol for passengers to board for a 300-yard drive to the Chinese immigration center and then another few miles to the Mongolian equivalent.
Rather than docking in Progreso for only a few hours as planned, the ship stayed in the port for two days, and cruise workers repeatedly told passengers they were waiting for parts to fix a mechanical problem, she said.
Over the last few years, cruise ships have been spending more time in the most popular ports like Beijing and Bangkok, giving passengers the opportunity to take overland tours or long day trips, as well as experience the nightlife.
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