Posted on 08/10/2009 8:25:48 AM PDT by steve-b
This is why there are lawyers.
Whoever made the decision to imprison those people on that plane should be jailed.
Happened to me once. 2:00 AM in Oklahoma City. The secure area cops were gone, so they simply took us down a roll-up stairs, onto buses and 2 minutes to the baggage claim area, out of the sterile area.
Better get used to this type of bulls$it.
“They didn’t want to put them up in a hotel.”
That was my first thought. But on weather related delays, the airline isn’t responsible & doesn’t have to compensate.
They should have taken them in a bus to the the terminal and let them decide if they wanted to spend the night there or get their own hotel room.
Not kidnap them for the night.
But in a Sunday interview with the Post-Bulletin of Rochester, Rochester International Airport manager Steve Leqve tells the paper there's no reason the passengers had to stay on the plane. "They wouldn't have had to go through security. They could have come into the airport," he tells the paper.
...which backs up my existing comments on the matter. Continental had two options: one, debark the passengers at the airport and either put them up in a hotel or provide them with no-cost alternate transportation to Minneapolis-St. Paul; or two, pay Delta/Northwest or another airline serving the airport to continue the flight to Minneapolis-St. Paul.
At least, to me, it seems Continental Express is entirely at fault, and someone is probably going to retain a lawyer.
To get off, they would not. But once off, they would not be allowed to get back on until the screeners came back on duty in the morning. Somebody might have thought that the problem could be fixed before the screeners were back, and didn't want to take responsibility for making the plane be grounded until then.
Exactly. Welcome to The Theater Of The Absurd, hosted by all the mind-numbed libtards of the Left.
I am so glad that I don't fly anywhere.
To get enough airline piloting flight hours to qualify for a better job with a regular airline.
I fly my own plane for this reason.
Of course the FAA is insane now.
They decided that I did not have the appropriate certificate the other day, claimed I lied about it, I showed them their error, and they offerred to withdrawl their bogus claim in return for $1,000 fine and a six month suspension.
I opted to pay a lawyer $5,000+/- and beat them in an adminstrative hearing.
Complete scum.
It wasn't entirely a weather-related delay. See the link provided by Hawk720 at post 20. Apparently, the ExpressJet pilots hit a federally-imposed limit on flying time, and since Continental/ExpressJet does not serve Rochester Int'l, they had to fly new pilots in.
Finger-pointing, indeed. The airport manager said there was no reason they could not have come into the airport. However Continental does not fly into the airport but Delta does and controls the gates. Left unsaid was why they didn’t use stairs and buses though Express Jet says that option was not offered.
80 miles from their final destiniation. Could have rented a car or called someone they knew to pick them up.
Just unconscionable and inexcusable.
See my post #34
I could not stand being in that cabin more than an hour. I’d be squirming with clautrophobia and demanding to be let off that plane!!!!!
This is totally uncalled for.
The message here is to AVOID the connecting route planes that fly for Delta and Continental. They are NOT their planes but contracted.
In Washington, the Law is an Ass.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/21/in_washington_the_law_is_an_ass_97540.html
Exactly.
This entire incident was basically a bureaucratic charlie foxtrot.
But, if they would have stayed in the terminal area, the passengers would not have had to go through security. ??
This whole situation smells of someone not using some common sense.
The excuse: it’s regulation...meaning government regulation.
No wonder people are just a TAD apprehensive about letting the government muck around with health care.
Once you get f-ed by the Federales, it's kinda hard to trust them again.
Not that they should have been trusted to begin with.
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