From other reports that I read, the replacement crew initially refused to let passengers off until the passengers were so adamant that they practically bullied their way off.
I'm thinking that the airlines will push back hard on passengers asking to be let off of planes, because of fears of lame excuses for wanting off. However, in this situation, having the original flight crew wanting off is enough justification for passengers wanting off, too. Perhaps the airlines would push back on that, too, saying that the flight crew was compromised by the incident and should not fly that shift, but that the passengers have no valid excuse to be let off?
-PJ
I would have made such a hissy fit scene, that they would have thrown me off of that plane...lol! I don’t understand folks who don’t listen to their instincts in regards to this kind of stuff and meekly do whatever ‘authority’ figures tell them to do. You have ME men pretending to shoot passengers with their trigger fingers, cussing and calling the flight attendents ‘infidel dogs’ and you don’t demand to be taken off of the plane when the airline does not throw them off? WTH is wrong with folks? LOL!