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E L L I O T T' S TRAVEL NOTES
Travel news, opinion and analysis

January 16, 2004

Look Out for St. Croix Sewage
A cruise company canceled plans to dock in St. Croix this weekend, saying that raw sewage pouring into the island's harbor meant poor water quality and health hazards to its passengers. The 350-passenger Radisson Diamond will instead stop in Virgin Gorda in the neighboring British Virgin Islands on Saturday, said Radisson Seven Seas Cruises spokesman Andrew Poulton. The cancellation comes at a time when St. Croix, the largest of U.S. Caribbean territory's three islands, has seen many other cruise ships cancel calls due to concerns about rising crime. ENN | Posted 1:45 p.m.
 -- Read St. Croix's "official" description of island
<-- Daily News: Time to face the crime problem?
• I recently spent a week on St. Croix and I offer another perspective: If you don't go swimming in the harbor and stay out of the dangerous neighborhoods, you'll have a great time. Indeed, St. Croix is perhaps the most beautiful of the US Virgin Islands, and I look forward to returning. Send us your comments.

Dark Days at US Airways
Struggling US Airways has been dealt another blow when an employment arbitrator ruled that it violated its contract with its flight attendant union when it laid off 552 flight attendants in December rather than offering voluntary furloughs first. Separately, the carrier announced that four of its officers are stepping down to take positions at other companies. ATW | Posted 1:15 p.m.
< -- US Airways attendants sue airline

• My description of US Airways as an airline "in chaos" — which got me canned from one of my news outlets — doesn't seem so hyperbolic after all, does it? Send us your comments.

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• And finally ... you read it here first. Travel Notes reported on Jan. 7 that Delta Air Lines might file for bankruptcy protection soon. Those sentiments were echoed in a report released yesterday by Credit Suisse First Boston analyst James Higgins. Maybe there is something to the bulletin-board scuttlebutt. Posted 1:30 p.m.. | Send us your comments.

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