The New Law

[t-flyer]

Wow...have you finished patted yourselves on the back? So now the rule has been in place since April 29 ...exactly how many times has your scenario happened? Exactly how many flights have actually been canceled because of this new DOT rule? Get some facts before posting misleading information. Work in the real world. Real world is that there have been too many times the airlines take control of a plane and make stupid mistakes, like keeping people locked up for 9 hours or MORE. Then provide little or NO food, broken facilities, hungry babies, etc, etc. The fact is, as said by one airline CEO, "we did this to ourselves". If the airlines had acted with common sense then the rule would not have been required. It's as simple as that....treat people humanely and this would have never had to be a new rule. Period. Nobody wanted to go out and get this rule. It as the acts of various airlines that caused this.

[t-flyer]

Instead of complaining about this rule the industry should come up with better/more efficient way of lining up aircraft for takeoff so that the scenario you envisioned would not happen. Then we would not have people stuck on planes AND your flight would not "lose it's place in line". In addition, there are even more solutions, such as the bus transports used all over Europe to get people off planes in the even of limited space at gates. There are solutions out there we just need to understand them and implement the one's that make sense. We don't have to operate the same just because that's the way it's always been. That type of ignorance and backward thinking does not help.

[bagby]

If the airlines weren't the worst-managed business in America, they'd plan how NOT to have passengers stranded for three hours. It would be a big concern to them.

They would be upset that this was making their customers unhappy.

It would be a concern to have a plane sitting on the tarmac for three hours, not earning any money, getting later and later for all of that aircraft's subsequent scheduled trips.

They'd have dealt with this themselves, long ago, and the issue wouldn't have even arisen, You wouldn't have to have a regulation about it, the airlines would not tolerate it because it costs them too much money. But it is the worst-managed business in America, if not the whole world, and it is run by Homer Simpson compatriots, "doh!"
They do manage to always avoid profitability, good relations with their employees, having any happy customers or earning any money for their stockholders.

Instead, you have to hit them over the head with a hammer -- hey, if you keep stranding people for hours, it'll cost you millions. So stop doing it. Get it? Stupid?

But I wouldn't worry about what these two say, they're both industry shills sent here a couple months before t-flyer or I even knew this forum existed They're both here to try to make it look like most people aren't really furious with the airlines. They both posted their messages ON April 29, the day that the regulation took effect, so they couldn't have seen any of the bad consequences they describe. QuitURwhining and NERoadWarrior really are both company shills.

[Photographer1]

Well after the events the past couple of days at New York airports it should be obvious to all that the Tarmac Delay Rule needs to be extended to international flights. People were stuck on an airplane for 11 hours! Four international flights had delays beyond what the rule allows for domestic flights. <http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/12/28/jfk.stuck.tarmac/index.html?hpt=T2>