11.   Martinair sent another plane into Boston to transport the stranded passengers to Florida.

12.   Most airlines said that gate agents would have no rational way to select which stranded passengers should get priority over passengers on the new flight.

13.   Shiloh Levine, tired of playing cards using makeshift cards cut from her college notebook, raced other stranded passengers down the long corridors on luggage carts.

14.   Some stranded passengers were standing on top of the boat, which was port-side up.

15.   Stranded passengers were taken to their destinations by buses.

16.   Swissair could not offer refunds or put up stranded passengers in hotels, they were told.

17.   The customer service agents deployed to help stranded passengers were easily visible in the terminal by virtue of their bright red vests.

18.   The most pronounced contrasts between airlines can be found in the individual services they offer stranded passengers.

19.   To most people in this city of cars and freeways, the idle buses and stranded passengers are barely noticeable.

20.   USAir had agreed to place stranded ValuJet passengers on its planes when space is available.