Stuck on tarmac? Airlines not required to help passengers

[Bob Hubbard]

Stuck on tarmac? Airlines not required to help passengers

• Story Highlights
• Tarmac task force to vote on guidelines for airlines regarding tarmac delays
• Draft includes giving delayed passengers updates every 15 minutes
• The 36-member task force was created last December

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/11/12/airline.delays.ap/index.html

 

[Empty Hands]

Oh yeah, I've read these stories. Stuck for hours, sometimes 9 or more. No AC. Prohibited from using the bathrooms. Prohibited from deplaning. No food or water. Object too strenuously, and you will be labeled "threatening" and arrested. I would contemplate arrest just to get to use the bathroom, personally.