Feb 16, 2007 7:26 am US/Eastern
Delta Travelers Suffer Through Similar JFK Ordeal
By SCOTT RAPOPORT, CBS 2 News
QUEENS (CBS) ―
Inside a home in Bayside, Queens on Thursday, two weary, angry you ladies were recovering from what they call their night in hell on Delta Airlines.
On Wednesday night, 17-year-olds Cally Nikolis and Alexandra Moshouris, along with their classmates, were boarding a Delta jet at Kennedy Airport expecting to fly to Greece.
They shot a home video documenting what they thought was going to be a smooth trip. What they got was an agonizing trip to nowhere. What they got was isolation on a plane stuck on a tarmac.
"It was really bad," Nikolis said.
"It was a nightmare," Moshouris added.
They said they were stuck on the plane for up to 11 hours.
You heard that right.
With the plane grounded after severe weather blasted in our area, and no chance to get off, Nikolis and Moshouris said the situation was compounded by little food, little water and little information.
"It's 2:20 in the morning and were still stuck on this (beep) plane," one is heard saying on the video.
Cally's mother, Marie Nikolis, wasn't having any of Delta's explanations.
"Shame on them for treating people like that," Marie Nikolis said. "It's not humane to have people enclosed in a confined area for 10 hours."
On Wednesday afternoon, Cally and Alexandra returned to Delta to catch their rescheduled flight to Greece. They had "reservations" in more ways than one.
"I wanna go, but then again I don't want to go. I don't want this to happen again," Cally Nikolis said.
A spokesperson for Delta tells CBS 2 the plane in question on Wednesday night never left the gate and passengers were free to get on and off the plane as they pleased.
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