Posted on 04/12/2022 5:04:55 AM PDT by billorites
Disturbing video shot aboard a JetBlue flight captured passengers clamoring to get off the plane in Newark – shouting that they were scared after several failed attempts to land at JFK Airport during bad weather.
“I’m not going back in the air,” one passenger is heard yelling at officials in the cabin.
Another man is seen pleading to get off the plane, which the airline said had been scheduled to land at JFK after a flight from Cancun, Mexico, on Thursday.
“My kids are panicking,” the man shouts. “We gotta get off this plane. It’s dangerous!
“We tried to land four times already … we’re scared to fly, we wanna get off! I don’t want to go to jail but it’s not right,” he said.
“I don’t care about JFK — it’s our lives! People are sick back there, people are fainting, people are throwing up! A little respect for human beings!” the man continues as other passengers also chime in about wanting to disembark.
JetBlue spokesman Derek Dombrowski told The Post that Flight 1852 diverted to Newark Liberty International Airport “due to weather” over JFK.
“Without proper customs processing available for the flight at Newark, the aircraft remained on the ground for 60 minutes and once the weather cleared departed again for JFK where it safely landed,” he said in an email.
“We apologize for the inconvenience this weather-related diversion created,” Dombrowski added.
The airline reportedly offered passengers $50 in flight credits for the inconvenience.
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That would be Spirit. JetBlue has done well for me.
Flew from Brussels to London Heathrow on Virgin Airlines.
My flight was first delayed, then cancelled.
The carrier gave me a voucher for a drink.
Eventually they got me on another flight. But my checked luggage didn’t come with me. When I got to Heathrow I wanted to tear into their people but what could they do about institutional incompetence?
But I will NEVER fly on Virgin Airline again.
JetScrew...fifty bucks? LOL What a joke.
Ive had no problems flying Jetblue. However there’s something going on with them. They’ve been cancelling flights like crazy recently because of “weather delays” and “air traffic control delays”(that’s funny no one else cancelling flights) also “staffing issues”.
My daughter and I was once on a flight from San Antonio to Newark and all hell broke loose with the weather. We were so scared, we created a game called cloud surfing so when the turbulence hit, and it was for most of the flight, we would ride the bumps.
The flight was diverted to come into Newark via upstate NY. Was a crazy trip. People losing their lunches, screaming and all. But my daughter was a trooper and we actually had fun. Well, she did. I was doing everything I could to avoid the panic attack that was coming on fast.
My daughter and I was once on a flight from San Antonio to Newark and all hell broke loose with the weather. We were so scared, we created a game called cloud surfing so when the turbulence hit, and it was for most of the flight, we would ride the bumps.
The flight was diverted to come into Newark via upstate NY. Was a crazy trip. People losing their lunches, screaming and all. But my daughter was a trooper and we actually had fun. Well, she did. I was doing everything I could to avoid the panic attack that was coming on fast.
JetBlue would appear to be the Denny’s of airlines.
More like Sambo’s, oh i can’t say that!
Pretty sure he’s alluding to the same trick that John Dillinger used to get out of the jail in Crown Point.
There is no alternate provision for customs clearance at a divert airport? Surely they jest?
Sounds like a decision that is all about money somehow.
International flights land at Newark all day every day.
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