[stinkerpot65]

Isn't false imprisonment a felony?

[Don Corleone]

You wanted De Regulation. You got it. Live with it until the government nationalizes the airline industry and it then gets worse.

[aberaussie]

After seeing Martin's posts and videos the next day, Virgin America CEO David Cush called him and Inaba to apologize, promising a full refund and $100 credit to all passengers.

Too little, too late!

[Tucson Jim]

And the Muslim radicals are laughing themselves silly!

[ltc8k6]

Sounds like the weather caused a diversion to an aiport with no real facilities for the pax.

[ml/nj]

After seeing Martin's posts and videos the next day, Virgin America CEO David Cush called him and Inaba to apologize, promising a full refund and $100 credit to all passengers.

I read this expecting to be outraged.

But things were VERY rough here in the NYC Metro area on Saturday night. I might even be lucky to be alive. (Something hit my car, a falling tree branch probably, while I was driving home at 40 MPH, stupidly in the right lane.) Things still aren't back to normal. Today I met some folks for lunch normally about a 20 minute drive away. Lunch was well under an hour and I was away two and a half hours. It sounds to me as if the airline guy is trying to make good on something which isn't really the airline's fault.

ML/NJ

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"One guy said he had a question, and the flight attendant started shouting at this guy, 'You are really getting on my freaking nerves! You need to shut the hell up!' " Martin said.

He added, "Carrie Anne and I tried to bring cookies on the plane to the mothers with babies, and the flight attendants started snapping at us." ...

Flight attendants these days are completely out of control. Post 9/11 security concerns have given these people a completely unwarranted sense of power, which they use to intimidate passengers. The whole airline scene is a mess - I'll drive for up to 10 hours to avoid flying.