Delta Offers $30,000 to Each Passenger in Toronto Crash Landing
Delta Air Lines Inc. is offering $30,000 to every passenger aboard a regional jet flight that came to rest upside down after crash landing at a Toronto airport earlier this week.
The payments are 'a good-faith gesture' that have 'no strings attached and does not affect rights,' Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesman, said Wednesday. Carriers in the past have made similar payments, such as $5,000 to help passengers replace possessions lost on US Airways' 'Miracle on the Hudson' flight in 2009.
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