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but anyone that gets off a plane or any public transportation because they consider it unsafe should get a refund or exchange ticket.

One huge problem with not charging the deplaning passenger(s). Luggage belonging to individual passengers, must accompany said passengers. A deplaning passenger's luggage would have to be located and removed, which would delay the plane and create a huge inconvenience for all others.

A deplaning passenger's luggage would have to be located and removed, which would delay the plane and create a huge inconvenience for all others.

I call BS. There are many times when I catch a flight with a connector, and my luggage goes nonstop, or vice versa. What you speak of was the "old" method where we thought that muzzies would not blow themselves up. Bags are now screened in a different fashion, because the old method jammed up flight schedules. Suffice that if you are going somewhere for more than a day or two domestic or international, UPS, Airborne, and FedEX are GREAT ways to send your stuff in advance. Some of us do this every week. Guess what? A freight tracking number works much better than dealing with the gorilla in baggage claim. And you get out of the airport an hour earlier. It is not a crime to fly without luggage. Yet.

It can't be that long a delay, in the sense, that it would be the same delay if someone checked in their luggage, and did not show up a the gate. When that happens, what happens? It must happen from time to time. I set my watch for PST in flight to Chicago, when flying from London to Chicago. I then had a senior moment, and thought that the flight to LA on my voucher was PST time (per my watch), rather than Central Time, and thought when I ambled up to the gate, that I had just over 2 hours until my flight, and inquired if I could check in "early." I found it odd that the flight posted at the gate was also going to LAX. It turned out of course that "my" flight was almost fully boarded, and if I had been ten minutes later (maybe less than ten minutes if they gave my seat to some standby person on the fully booked flight), I would have missed it.

If I had missed my Chicago to LA flight, due to my mental lapse, does that mean the flight shuts down, until they get my luggage out of the cargo hold(which was where it was since it was transfered from the London to Chicago flight), if I had chosen instead to more fully savor at my leisure the joys of the intricacies of O'Hare airport?