Sitting in the Athens airport waiting to board our flights home to DFW.

Late last night I got an email from my office with the offer for those on TUT. The details on the link on cruise critic is accurate. I was not able to tell everyone on board TUT but many will check here and find out before I can get home and let everyone know. I know some that will probably take the Sydney to Beijing trip and that will be wonderful as Ken and I are on that too.

I think Regent did a masterful job overall, of course with doing last minute air for so many so fast some mistakes happened which is probably what is in those cruise critic posts. I am so sorry that Leslie and Brad had the problems they had. Their's was probably the worst scenairo in the group. It was such a crazy situation and all the staff were very stressed.

Many people had to wait until the weekend to get business class flights as there was just no space.

For my part was I was incredibly impressed with the General Manager Michael Coghlan. His attitude under so much stress was amazing. If I ever had to experience a problem like this (hope nothing like this does happen again) there is no one I would rather have in charge. He has my respect forever and look forward to sailing with him again under better circustances.