[babble-on]

The headline makes it sound like he was the bad guy, and by the end of the story I was on his side.

[SharpRightTurn]

Ah, the joys of flying.

[mewzilla]

Weight distribution? What size plane was this?

[WildHighlander57]

Asking people to move, in order to balance the aircraft?

What a bunch of —— ——.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3512687/posts

[SkyDancer]

The crew knows the weight and balance of the aircraft before push back.

[BfloGuy]

"a Republican"

Cleared that up right away in the second sentence.

[jz638]

People want to be treated well on airlines but insist on paying rates more appropriate for cargo then try to skirt the rules by testing the limits for baggage weight and size then being difficult to the flight staff.

Airlines respond by cutting closer to the margins on weight and schedule, and occasionally things go @ss over teaketttle and a tired flight crew has a half hour to get a nearly overloaded airliner into the air before FAA regs say they have to deplane and switch out, further delaying the flight. Plug in one retire important person who isn’t ready to sit down and color and you get something that looks like this.

No snowflake in the avalanche thinks itself responsible.

[usconservative]

Once on board, they were delayed for another half an hour or so, until a member of the flight crew got on the intercom and asked if there were 10 passengers who’d be willing to move their seats to adjust the plane’s weight distribution, enabling them to take off, Galante said.

I've traveled quite a bit in my career and been on quite a few airplanes. I've NEVER run into a situation where passengers are asked to switch seats to adjust a planes weight distribution.

If that were to EVER happen on a plane I was on, I'd insist on getting the hell off that plane pronto. WTF!!!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Guilty of being a Republican and being old. Two things Liberals HATE.

Die already, or CONVERT!

Wow. Liberals are kinda like Islamo-facists in that respect, are they not?

*SMIRK*

[b4me]

Iv’e only ever heard flight attendants say for people to NOT changing seats on UNFULL flights during take off.

[smokingfrog]

Good for him.

[McGruff]

Flying use to be enjoyable. Now it’s a necessary evil.

[bigbob]

I wonder if he told them who he was?

[Paladin2]

" It began after passengers on flight 1002 to New York were delayed for seven hours in the terminal,"

That'll help make the cattle happy....

[cornelis]

Why is this news?

[gunnut]

I call BS. I believe the plane was an Airbus A321. If 10 passengers moving on a jet that size (190 passenger), I would be afraid to fly on it.