Three to four hours is still a very long time.
I met Ms. Hanni at a luncheon a few months back. She seemed very nice and is certainly passionate about her issue. However, I have the nagging feeling that something about her doesn't ring true. I certainly wish her well, but I am leery of her.
As an aside, note that all the video captures we read about are on YouTube. You never hear mention of AlGore’s Emmy-award winning Current (which is soooo not current). I guess they had to award him something before everyone realized that Crnt is betamax to YouTube’s VHS.
I don’t understand why we need laws to prevent airline passengers from being stranded on the tarmac for hours at a time. Good grief! Must the government do everything for us? You would think that the airlines and the airports, after so many of these incidents, would get a clue and work toward preventing or at least minimizing these things. They shouldn’t need laws to fix this.
Seems to me that most of the problems we now have with air travel were minimal or didn’t exist at all prior to deregulation. Ever since deregulation, air travel has become a real nightmare. I used to love to fly — now it’s a royal pain in the keister.
If this happens to me I will immediately develop “chest pain”.
Passengers shouldn’t be left stranded on an airplane for hours. This is an airline policy that should be condemned. It doesn’t take all that much to return to the terminal and get the passengers deplaned. Sheesh! I’ve been stuck on an airplane for several hours in Denver. Made me angry!
The time period should be one hour or whenevr an airline knows the delay will be one hour or more.
Actually, it should reduce expenses for the airlines since they wouldn’t have to keep the engines or power generators going.
3 hours... I would say she is a frontwomen for the industry..
If a plane cannot take off within 20 min of the time scheduled after boarding passengers. The Passengers should be disembarked, the flight canceled or rescheduled and the Passengers Compensated..
3 hours is a Load of Crap.
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If there's a problem, more government involvement is sure to make it better!
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Here's an idea: Get the word out every time this happens, then don't use that airline any more. The loss of revenue from the bad publicity will quickly persuade the airlines to change their policies.
Too many people believe that lawsuits, petitions, laws and government enforcers are the best or only way to fix something. The long-term effects of that thinking are usually worse than the problems they sought to solve.
The airline business in the U.S. is sick.
There are factors that reduce competition yet, at the same time, profit margins of U.S. airlines are low, even as there is no regulatory issue that limits the price of an airline ticket.
Consequently, airlines overbook and flight-times are significantly bunched (varying by route) as all airlines at one airport seek to obtain as much of the passengers they can at the optimum times that passengers most frequently choose.
You get airports idle in stretches and then massively backed up at other times.
The US airline industry needs an overhaul from the ground up and that needs to extend to the economic and operational relationships between airlines and airports as well.
If it were possible to have a larger number of airports in each of our metropolitan areas (how likely???), and that larger number each owned by a major airline, I wonder if their operations would be more efficient and if the drive-times to those airports would still provide reasonable competition between them. Just total speculation.
There should be a simple law: No aircraft may embark without immediate clearance for flying their route with pre-takeoff and pre-landing clearance, meaning they will be cleared for takeoff as soon as the other planes in front takeoff and the destination airport is cleared for their landing. If any plane is not able to takeoff and fly its intended route with pre-clearance to land, the plane should be required to immediately return to the terminal.