Posted on 08/25/2022 3:27:46 PM PDT by Ben Dover
A United Airlines plane is reported to have taxied so long that it ran out of fuel ahead of its flight earlier this week.
United Airlines Boeing 737-900ER was scheduled to fly out of Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday (August 22)), but was short on gas after taxiing for six hours, leading to the flight eventually getting canceled, Aviation A2Z reports.
Several passengers on board shared their experiences on social media as the incident took place, including New York Times reporter Hiroko Tabuchi, who wrote, "You can't make this up. my United flight out of Newark taxied on the tarmac for more than 6 hours and now **no longer has enough fuel** to get to Denver -- so we are taxiing back to the terminal," in an apparent since-deleted tweet re-quoted by the Twitter account @FL360aero.
The plane was initially delayed due to inclement weather, which included lightning and thunderstorms, and taxied for about three hours before going back to the gate for the first time.
Passengers were reportedly told, “if you really need to go to the bathroom or stretch your legs, go ahead, but we really prefer you don’t, and we won’t hesitate to leave you behind," after the plane returned to the gate, according to Aviation A2Z.
The plane then taxied "for the next few hours" before an announcement was made by the captain that air traffic control gave a longer flight path to Denver in order to avoid lingering storms and the plane wouldn't have enough fuel needed to make the extended trip.
Passengers were later notified that the flight had been canceled through the United Airlines app after a lengthy delay, but crew members were reportedly not made aware of the change when they asked passengers to re-board the aircraft and taxi on the tarmac for an additional two hours.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the average delay time for all U.S. flights on Monday was 37 minutes, with 92% caused by weather, 5% due to volume and 3% linked to staffing issues, according to the India Times.
Right! And when they run out of power, they can just drop a charging cord and fly around while charging!
They should insist all those wealthy people who push the climate change narrative use the first electric private jets
**She said if you are within about a 12 hour drive then go by car.**
Fine with me. As an OTR trucker, I was used to that and more (before electronic logs). A 10 hr drive is just an ordinary day.
Once had a meat haul from Storm Lake, IA to the Bay, stopping in SLC, UT for a 45 minute nap. Got a full 24 hrs to sleep and relax. The veggie return had me out of Coachella, CA, to Chicago southside. Stopped for 3 hrs of sleep in Gallup, NM. It helps to have other drivers on the CBs telling interesting stories to keep alert. And every hour or two, stop, trot around the rig a time or two to check things and loosen the legs, and open the lungs.
All natural, no pills. I don’t drink coffee (hate hot drinks), and only resort to iced tea if I think I need a boost.
A friend of mine is a travel agent, and she still has plenty of clients, mostly older folks with plenty of money, but no use for computers. They want things planned for them and pay pretty well for that.
That makes sense
We have a good friend of our daughter's who's a travel agent. She does 'destination' type trips, for weddings, honeymoons, corporate trips, etc.
Back in 2019, we booked a month-long trip to Europe with her, starting with a 19-day cruise on Viking from Budapest to Amsterdam. We told her we also wanted to spend a week in Paris and a week in London. We also told her all the things we wanted to see along the way, i.e. lunch at the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, Stonehenge, the Tower of London, Anne Frank's house, something pretty much every day.
She handled everything, and we got a detailed daily itinerary, telling us where we were going, what we would be seeing, and what time to be standing outside our hotel.
And everything worked out perfectly, going off without a hitch for the entire 32 days.
Gottagettheritis is lethal.
It's better to be down here, wishin' you were up there, than to be up there wishin' you were down here. I have personal, first hand experience with both situations.
United.
We will taxi you to death AND beat you to get you out of your seats.
Screw United. I never fly with them.
People aren’t passengers anymore.
They’re cargo.
I’m not paying through the nose to be treated like freight.
Yep
Good Post.
I thought that the Camp Lejeune lawsuit was just the opening shot in the great ambulance chase that has lawyers salivating but I didn’t know the was a list of more. Here it is;
https://www.hillandponton.com/military-base-exposures-united-states/
Out in Hawaii, United crew put us on pontoons and we taxiied all the way to Midway Island. But at least we could stick our fishing poles out the windows, Almost landed a marlin.
Why not a flying battery with a charging cord?
Well at least they were running the A/C
Actually plane flights are much cheaper on an inflation adjusted basis than they were decades ago.
The consumer chose price over comfort.
Sounds like the White House. While Xiden and his handlers are off in Delaware tuning up his dementia meds out of sight of WH doctors and public view.
Then the Affirmative Action Lesbian Karine whatever press secretary doesn’t take any questions and says, “We’re just gonna move on from here...” [IOW, STFU peon reporters]
Don’t single out United on this. Trust me, they all do it.
For flights and hotels we do it online, but for bigger things like cruises we go through an agent. Let them do the timeline, flights, hotels, transfers, insurance, etc. They do a good job.
United is the only one in recent memory that beat the hell out of a doctor to get him out of his seat so someone else could ride.
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