Martha Elena Flores Cura: Continental Lost My Husband's Body!

thanks , I didn't know how bad it really was also the fancy bed cover never gets sent to the cleaners. WE found blood on one in Florida. Yuk.

The same thing happened with my Mother back in 2004. She was being flown from Michigan to Amsterdam, and then on to Dublin, Ireland, where she would be picked up at the airport and driven to Belfast, Northern Ireland for burial with my Father. This is the only way the funeral director could do it. KLM airlines said she missed her connecting flight to Dublin after she arrived in Amsterdam and she apparently spent the night in a plane hangar at the airport in Amsterdam!! We went to see her at the funeral home in Belfast, and they said their driver was told she had not arrived in Dublin when she was expected.

When I called KLM to talk to them about it after I returned home, they asked me how she looked when I saw her. Kinda gives you a real creepy feeling. But they acted as if it was no big deal, and I didn't receive any compensation whatsover. I let it go. I do agree that people will try to sue over just about anything.

Like it was said, it all turned out o.k. Like my Mom used to say, "It's done and it can't be undone."

I also had a cousin who passed away in Croatia a few years back, and it took about 11 days to get through all the red tape to have her flown back to her Native Ireland. She was in Croatia for a vacation when she suffered cardiac arrest. There's nothing that could be done about that one, either.

not to be insensitive--but airlines have a track record for lost luggage, poor customer service, and a no frills, just thrills travel policy--why is it that anything the airlines do today --including losing a casket doesn't surprise me--just don't die or get sick on board the plane--you might have to wait to get to the destination before medical help is called-- by then--it's over--

Maybe they should have just bought him a seat.

This country is messed up! Sue Sue over everything. Although unfortunate they found him.Move on!

Time to get over it, I think. Too long struggling over something that can't be changed. Mistakes happen. What's done...is done. Nothing was lost, just mis-directed. There's a big difference.

GEEZ, I just did it again!! OOPS!

Sorry foir the typos. Didn't proof read until after I hit submit

klyncvh1029.... RE: your post and info you gave, I'm with you. We have become such a letigious (sp?) country. And, no disrespect to the dead, did you notice the names? And the phrase "common law husband". Does this family even have a legal right to be in our country? And if so, as has been pointed out, why wait two years? Looking for a slimey enough lawyer to take the case, I guess. I agree that the reporters probably didn't have their facts straight, but, in today's 24/7 news world, I can only imagine how tough the competition muct be among reporters. Blame the technology that was supposed to "work for us". We are now working slaves to that very technology. Yet, without knowing ALL the TRUE facts, I have indeed read reports of :not so on the up and up" funeral directors. But it all boils down to this. People want cheap airfare, but aren't willing to accept the fact that as competion among the airlines grows more prominent, service HAS to suffer. S**T happens. Depending on how3 much the family is asking for, they deservse some kind of compensation, but NOT mollions pf dollars, and NOY if they are in our country illigally. BTW, I have to agree with VALENTINE :), UAL has SUCKED for 20 years as far as service goes!

Only a licensed funeral home can ship via airline and only a funeral home can pick up the body. If this was a US citizen it would not have received any attention since an "enlightened" reporter would have known that. The "non-wife" obviously had to actually pay the receiving funeral home and is now trying to recoup the money she rightfully had to pay. Her scheme of sticking it to the "rich amigos" fell through. Continental stuck with the laws.