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At least 4 jets stranded for hours, airlines may be fined
It was a passengers' nightmare at Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Conn., this weekend. Passengers on at least three JetBlue planes and one American Airline plane say they were stranded on the tarmac for seven hours or more after being diverted from New York-area airports on Saturday. The ordeal continued after they were let off and had to spend the night on cots and chairs in terminals. (www.nypost.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don't understand how fining either airline would be fair. This was a system failure, compounded by the weather.
If the airline decided to fly with a well-predicted ongoing storm, then JetBlue deserves blame. If JetBlue already decided to fly, and then decided that BDL would be the best place, or even a place to consider, diverting to, then they are to blame. If the pilot was unable to receive any direction from his airline on what to do, then they are to blame. If the pilot, unable to receive direction from his airline, elected to divert to BDL, then JetBlue is to blame as well.
Well, it was already a well predicted storm and in that respect, Jet Blue is probably to blame, BUT, in further reading the article, it appears there were some system failures at JFK that caused the whole mess . It was then that all this Fiasco started to unfold. There is probably plenty of blame to go around.
Not only should the airlines and the airport management pay fines, but those in position of authority shouds be FIRED!
How did getting off an airplane get to be such a big deal?
First using the engines you get the plane as close to the terminal as possible.
If the plane has a back stairs, just lower the back stairs and get off, walk across the tarmack into the terminal. Whatever conditions are in the terminal they are always better than on the plane. There is enough "help" on the airplane to guide the group to the terminal.
I,like most, have taken many flights without "Jetways" where the flight began and ended with a walk across the tarmack, often in rain & snow.
If the plane does not have back stairs every plane has two or more slides. Open a slide, any passengers that want to slide out should be given that option.
I had a professor who suggested that if you wanted to get an organization to "engage" you used of a variation on, "when you call the gas company always end the call with, AND WE SMELL GAS!"
When there is a chance of a belly landing all sorts of equipment is called out and belly landing or not the passengers are quickly picked up and hauled back to the terminal. A suggestion of landing gear problems on approach would bring out the necessary equipment to get the passengers off. And the the equipment would be out on the field ready to respond to such as a belly landing instead of back in the garage getting the engines started.
This is one of those things that the airlines could do but they have a bad case of "I don't want to". If the air field is objecting all the captain has to say is "I am letting down the back stairs/releasing the slides -- deal with it!"
First using the engines you get the plane as close to the terminal as possible.
If the plane has a back stairs, just lower the back stairs and get off, walk across the tarmack into the terminal. Whatever conditions are in the terminal they are always better than on the plane. There is enough "help" on the airplane to guide the group to the terminal.
I,like most, have taken many flights without "Jetways" where the flight began and ended with a walk across the tarmack, often in rain & snow.
If the plane does not have back stairs every plane has two or more slides. Open a slide, any passengers that want to slide out should be given that option.
I had a professor who suggested that if you wanted to get an organization to "engage" you used of a variation on, "when you call the gas company always end the call with, AND WE SMELL GAS!"
When there is a chance of a belly landing all sorts of equipment is called out and belly landing or not the passengers are quickly picked up and hauled back to the terminal. A suggestion of landing gear problems on approach would bring out the necessary equipment to get the passengers off. And the the equipment would be out on the field ready to respond to such as a belly landing instead of back in the garage getting the engines started.
This is one of those things that the airlines could do but they have a bad case of "I don't want to". If the air field is objecting all the captain has to say is "I am letting down the back stairs/releasing the slides -- deal with it!"
JetBlue should be fined to the fullest extent of the law. This is not the first time this situation has happened and they are airline that is responsible for creating the fine regulation. If anyone should have been trained to avoid this situation or know what to do, it should have been JetBlue. They deserve to pay the fine just on the basis of their own stupidity. They are a disgrace to the entire airline industry and just illustrates the extent of the moronic behavior of the airlines to the flying public.