Saturday, April 12, 2008

Airline bankruptcies ground local Boy Scouts

Joyia Emard, Loomis News Staff Writer, 11 April 2008

The double whammy of Hawaii-bound airline closures has left local Boy Scout families scrambling.

“It stinks,” said disappointed Scout John Lewis.

A number of Boy Scouts from Troop 12 in Loomis have been planning a June backpacking trip to Kauai for two years. Many of them now stand ticketless for their travel after ATA and Aloha Airlines recently closed down services.

Some Scout parents had even planned...

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