Galway family stranded in JFK

A nightmarish journey for a Galway family from New York to Knock on the new transatlantic route only ended after four days when they took matters into their own hands and organised an alternative return flight.Galway Taxis driver Noel Murphy, his wife Jacinta and teenage daughter Katie were among the 240 flyglobespan passengers who were stranded in JFK airport in New York since Thursday.The airline refused to charter another plane or organise seats on alternative carriers when the scheduled flight was cancelled due to technical difficulties. Passengers were put up in hotels and ferried back to the airport on four successive nights only to be told that their plane could still not take off.The Glasgow-based airline said its attempts to bring in an alternative aircraft was thwarted because of the terrorism alert on Saturday when all flights were grounded for a time.