Posted on 02/15/2007 9:27:34 AM PST by stinkerpot65
(CBS) QUEENS Jet Blue Airlines apologized late Wednesday to dozens of passengers who were kept sitting on planes at New York's JFK Airport for 10 hours or more without ever taking off.
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One of the passengers interviewed on TV this morning said that the ground staff finally refused to even take phone calls from the cabin crew.
Bring back the Pony Express.
Why is this not kidnapping or at the least holding someone against their will?
Attention! Attention! Would Al Gore please report to the control tower. Would Al Gore please report to the control tower. Please bring some Global Warming with you. That is all.
I was in JFK from 0730 til near midnight yesterday trying to move an aircraft. While sitting there dealing with my own problems I was listening on ground control freq to all the aircraft with no gates. It was gridlock, not only for Jet Blue but all flights arriving (not too many took off until later in the day) from wherever. I saw ANA and BA sitting for hours and hours. There was a humor break listening to the back and forth between an Air India flight and the JFK controllers. Hilarious.
I am sure the liberals will blame this on:
A). George Bush
B). Global Warming
C). The USA not singing the Koto treaties.
D). Israel -- it is always the fault of the Jews -- (this will be the choice of all muslims, Jimmy the Nazi Carter, and liberals)
E). All of the above
The Liberals will pick "E".
I am sure the liberals will blame this on:
A). George Bush
B). Global Warming
C). The USA not singing the Koto treaties.
D). Israel -- it is always the fault of the Jews -- (this will be the choice of all muslims, Jimmy the Nazi Carter, and liberals)
E). All of the above
The Liberals will pick "E".
Always sit by an overwing exit.
Give them 2 hours to get the show on the road. If nogo at 2 hrs + 1 minute, pop the door and step out on the wing.
Note: the door is a handy silencer for that screaming machine next to the wing, just toss it in the front side, noise will cease soon.
If enough hostages take this approach, the idiots running the airlines will stop imprisoning their customers.
NEW YORK — JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) tried to calm a maelstrom of criticism Thursday, after passengers were left waiting on planes at a New York airport for as long as nine hours during a snow and ice storm.
The airline said 10 incoming and outbound flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport were "significantly delayed" with customers on board during Wednesday's storm. Reasons included congestion, frozen equipment and an effort to keep planes ready to go in case the weather broke, said JetBlue spokesman Bryan Baldwin.
Calling the delays "unacceptable," the airline planned to offer the affected passengers refunds and free flights.
To Cheryl Chesner, 26, "unacceptable" was hardly the word for the 11 hours she said she and her husband, Seth, 27, spent trying to take a JetBlue flight to Aruba for their honeymoon.
"It was the worst. It was horrific," she said. Baldwin said the Aruba flight, scheduled to leave at about 8 a.m. Wednesday, ultimately left late Wednesday night. But the Chesners went home to the Bronx.
While they waited to take off, John Farrell waited to arrive. His JetBlue flight from Fort Myers, Fla., landed at 10 a.m., but passengers didn't get off until nearly 7 p.m., he said.
"You gotta realize the frustration — you can look out the window and you can see, there's the gate, and if you let us off the plane, we can walk there," said Farrell, 48, of Brooklyn.
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JetBlue will review the day's events to determine whether it could have handled the storm differently and how to prevent similar problems from arising again, Baldwin said.
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We have three young children and any time we fly, I always make sure the carry-on is crammed full of snacks, books, change of kids' underclothes & clothes, etc. My husband thinks I over-do it ("It's only a 2 hour flight!") -- but this kind of "hostage situation" is always in the back of my mind.
And likely face felony charges of interfering with a flight crew.
THAT is a good question!!! There should be a LAW that you can't sit on the tarmac for over two hours!!! That would be awful, but anything over that is INTOLERABLE!! TORTURE!!
Hostage taking.
In the Army they called this stuff "Good training."
I should probably do Ramp Crew for whatever airline is looking for hirees, instead of working in an office *insert sickened face*
What did it sound like between Air India and Flight Control?
I say we take all the prisoners at Gitmo and put them in planes on runways for hours on end.
And make them read SkyMall instead of the Koran.
Felony charges, what a laugh. Just try to get even one of 12 to vote for a conviction. Especially after calling 112 whitnesses describing the hell they went through.
If you aren't in the air, there is no flight cres, just bus drivers and cocktail waitresses.
Felony charges, what a laugh. Just try to get even one of 12 to vote for a conviction. Especially after calling 112 whitnesses describing the hell they went through.
If you aren't in the air, there is no flight crew, just bus drivers and cocktail waitresses.
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