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☆ Help! A British Travel Agency Has Our $3,891 and We Want It Back.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Seth Kugel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

We didn’t hear from them for weeks, eventually filing a dispute with our credit card issuer. That seemed to jolt them, because then Jetline got back to us: They would give us a two-year credit. We ended up booking a trip to Portugal for April 2022, but were concerned when Jetline didn’t send us confirmation details. We complained, waited weeks for a response and eventually were told we owed $800 dollars because of a fare increase. I reached out to Jetline, which also goes by the more British name Jetline Holidays.

Persons: Jetline, Jetline didn’t, Meghan, Jay, Richard Levy, ” Locations: Iceland, Portugal, Clifton, Va ., London

STOCKHOLM, June 25 (Reuters) - One person was killed and nine injured, including children, in a roller coaster accident at the Grona Lund amusement park in the Swedish capital on Sunday, representatives of the park said. Eyewitnesses said the park's Jetline roller coaster had partly derailed during a ride, sending people crashing to the ground. The park spokesperson said 14 people were on the roller coaster when the front part partially derailed. [1/7]Emergency services attend the scene following a fatal accident that took place on the roller coaster Jetline at the Grona Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden, June 25, 2023. "My husband saw a roller coaster car with people in it falling to the ground," Lagerstedt said.

Persons: Grona Lund, we've, Jan Eriksson, Grona, Eriksson, Marie Mannes Jenny Lagerstedt, Lagerstedt, Parisa Liljestrand, Liljestrand, Marie, Terje Solsvik, Emelia Sithole, Frank Jack Daniel Our Organizations: Police, Grona Lund, REUTERS, SVT, Sweden's, TT, Marie Mannes, Thomson Locations: STOCKHOLM, Lund, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish

☆ Riders plunge from a derailed roller coaster in Sweden, killing one and injuring several others
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

People visit Grona Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden, September 5, 2009. A fatal accident took place on the park's roller coaster Jetline on June 25, 2023, according to local media. A roller coaster train derailed in Stockholm on Sunday, sending some passengers plunging to the ground in an amusement park accident that left one dead and nine injured, police and park officials said. Witness Ziba Assadi told Swedish broadcaster TV4 that she was standing just below the Jetline roller coaster when she saw the wheel assembly of one of the cars crashing to the ground. Opened in 1883, Gröna Lund is Sweden's oldest amusement park.

Persons: Witnesses, Jan Eriksson, Ziba Assadi, Assadi, Gröna Lund, Annika Troselius Organizations: TV4, Police Locations: Lund, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish

[1/2] Police officers work at the scene after a roller coaster accident took place at an amusement park, according to the police, in Stockholm, Sweden, June 25, 2023. Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency/via REUTERSSTOCKHOLM, June 25 (Reuters) - One person was killed and several injured in a roller coaster accident at the Grona Lund amusement park in the Swedish capital on Sunday, the TT news agency reported, citing a park spokesperson. Public broadcaster SVT, citing eyewitnesses, said the park's Jetline roller coaster had partly derailed during a ride. "My husband saw a roller coaster car with people in it falling to the ground," Lagerstedt said. The steel-tracked Jetline roller coaster reaches a speed of up to 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph) and a height of 30 metres (98 feet), transporting more than one million visitors each year, the amusement park says on its website.

Persons: Claudio Bresciani, we've, Grona Lund, Jenny Lagerstedt, Lagerstedt, Marie, Terje Solsvik, David Goodman, Frances Kerry, Giles Elgood Organizations: Police, TT, Agency, REUTERS, Public, SVT, Marie Mannes, Thomson Locations: Stockholm, Sweden, REUTERS STOCKHOLM, Lund

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