Snowfall Leaves JetBlue Passengers Stranded for 7 Hours Without Food, Water, Working Bathrooms
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Fed-up passengers aboard a JetBlue flight that sat on the tarmac for seven hours. (NBC Connecticut)
NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — Passengers on a JetBlue plane were stranded on the tarmac in Connecticut for more than seven hours Saturday after snowstorms on the East Coast required the flight be diverted.
A passenger on the plane diverted to Bradley International Airport said they had no food, water or working bathrooms for the last few hours of the ordeal.
The plane left Florida at 10 a.m. Saturday and landed in Connecticut around 1:30 p.m., where it sat motionless for hours. Passengers began dialing 911 when they weren’t given adequate explanations for why they were stuck.
“At the three-hour mark they told us by law they had to let us off the plane. They were waiting for a tug to take us to a gate. We heard that same message at the four-hour mark, and continuing until state troopers boarded the plane for a medical emergency,” Robert, a passenger who did not want to give his last name, told NBC Connecticut.
He added, “I’ll never fly JetBlue again, and I’ll never fly through Connecticut again.”
Fed-up, frustrated passengers took to social media sites, including Twitter, to vent their outrage. One Twitter user, Andrew Carter, kept up a running account as the hours crawled by.
According to the station, a paraplegic on the flight had a medical issue about seven hours after the plane landed, at which point police and firefighters came aboard to provide medical assistance, leading to the passengers disembarking.
A JetBlue spokeswoman, Victoria Lucia, confirmed in an emailed statement that six of its planes, carrying a total of about 700 passengers, were diverted to Hartford as a result of a “confluence of events” including infrastructure issues at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and Newark International Airport.
She noted that a total of 17 other flights were also diverted to the airport.
Lucia said that intermittent power outages at the airport made refueling and deplaning difficult. She declined to specify how long planes sat on the tarmac, but said passengers would be reimbursed.
Kate Hani, executive editor of consumer advocacy site FlyersRights.org, said she got calls from passengers and family members on at least three stranded flights at Bradley International that were stranded on the tarmac for up to 10 hours.
JetBlue of New York also made headlines in 2007 when snow and ice storms stranded its planes for nearly 11 hours at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
A regulation that went into effect last year fines airlines for holding domestic flights on the tarmac for more than three hours. This year, the rule was extended to apply to international flights that are held on the tarmac for more than four hours.
Passengers do not get a cut of the fines, however.
Connecticut Gov. Daniel Malloy called Saturday’s snowfall a “historic storm” and said cots were mobilized to accommodate passengers forced to sleep in the airport overnight.
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Comments (162)
Glenn in Virginia
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:47pmI guess Global Warming is over now. Are we back to the “Coming Ice Age” from the Seventies again?
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:02pmGreedy hypercapitalism gone amok. It started with your idol -Reagan and deregulation.Let the businesses go unbrridled.Money is to be made.OWS is paving the way for 21stc capitalism with a human face-euorpean style socialist democracy is a coming. Down with calvinist-if you‘re rich you’re blessed by God and must be pleasing to Him. And puritianical pull yourselves up by your own bootstrap work till you drop ethos.Universal health care, a guaranteed wage or job, free highter eduction for those who could benefit ,and less idolotry of wealth and busines will be the way of future. Creativity and innovation may be curtailed but we have enough stuff and are advanced enough we need to scale down. A more laid back culture will develop.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:12pmAnswer me this Glenn. Why is every snow storm proof that there is no global warming but every extreme hot day has nothing to do with global warming? You can’t have it both ways no matter how much you think you can.
Report Post »thop1960
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:27pmRose-
Brainwashed much? Drinking the liberal cool-aid? Your Socialist nirvana is a Steven Spielberg fantasy. There is a reason it has never worked, and it’s not because “it hasn’t been done right yet”, as other bleeding heart liberals attest. It hasn‘t happened because it by nature reduces man’s desire to better himself and he falls inline to be ruled by those who seize control. In essence it turns man into a whining, useless sack of sh^t. What lofty goals you have…
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:29pmrose-ellen
B!tch, the OWS will pass.
Capitalism is here to stay,even if it means using force, to make sure it does.
We rule you.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:31pmRoseE Shut your pie hole!
Survivor It’s called climate change now, get with the program.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:33pmRoseE reading your posts is like listening to Charlie Browns teacher.
Report Post »marianner863
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:41pmRoseellen, If you read the story, passengers were saying that they wouldn’t fly JetBlue again. Free market capitalism at work. When you fail to provide your customers with good service you lose those customers. Government regulations or not.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:48pmOH MY, were all gonna die now.. It’s Snowing!
Report Post »hollister4530
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:56pmWOW! That’s amazing! Rose got all that from a flight being stuck on a tarmac! AWESEOME! lol
Report Post »hi
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:56pmRose-ellen
In America we vote for change. We don’t camp out in the streets and defecate on police cars expecting socialism to prevail. Your “change” from Obama was a huge failure.
No one wants socialism except for the those who are greedy and want to take from others who work hard so they don’t have to work. The occupiers are just druggies and lazy butts with no brain.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:06pmRosie-
Report Post »Many will die if your ideal way of life comes to fruition.
mdb749
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:14pmRose-Ellen – you need to pack up your bags and move to France. You’ll be much happier there – and so will we.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:15pm@MHP “that coon Obama”?????????????
Seriously sir/madam/whatever. That kind of language is uncalled for. No matter how much I can’t stand the IslamoCommieFascist-In-Chief, that kind of pejorative is not appropriate EVER!
@Rosie the Commie
I have to hand it to you. You really are consistent and a true believer in the ten planks of Communism. You’re just not smart enough to know it. Or you’re not honest enough to actually say it. Probably both.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:18pmhi
If them sumbitches take from me, they’ll see the business end of a gun with a bullet coming out.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:21pmNOTAMUSHROOM
We call him ni**r here. Were very open about it.
He’s not even invited here, and will not be served, gas, food or anything.
Report Post »wdvander
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:25pmPoor Rose-Ellen, she can’t hep it, she was born with bird’s brain in her head, Karl Marx in her heart and the soul of Obama.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:28pmA black guy, a Muslim and an illegal alien walk into a bar…
The bartender says “so what’ll you have mr. president?”
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:30pmNOTAMUSHROOM
I also use it to piss off encinom, and jzs and it’s working quite well
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:35pmMHP
Well OK then. At least you have a strategy. :-)
Report Post »booger71
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:41pmRose
Report Post »Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists. The leaders in socialist countries live in very nice homes, eat very well, have billions in gold put away in vaults, while the people live on the edge of poverty their whole lives. This is why capitalism is boss.
MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:42pmNOTAMUSHROOM
And you can make damn sure I‘d say it to Obama’s face too, either word, I‘m not ’fraid of the sumbitch :-)
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:46pmRose Ellen
Please always remember that God loves you….not my words but His words.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:48pm@rose – off your meds again, huh?
Capitalism has NOTHING to do with this! Nor does Ronald Regan, though you would LOVE to blame everything, including your mental issues, on anyone but yourself – especially a conservative.
The airlines USED to not allow passengers to disembark, in an effort to maintain on-time stats, fuel efficiency, etc. Now, they are required to allow passengers off. Jet Blue was ATTEMPTING to do exactly that. However, the AIRPORT must also be able to accommodate them with tugs, gates, etc. In a winter storm, that is not so easy. Jet Blue was ATTEMPTING to allow the passengers off the plane. The airport has no financial motive (no capitalist motive) to delay. So, it was clearly a logistics issue.
PLUS, they were not without food and water for 11.5 hours! It was the last few hours. Geez. You’ve never been without food or water or a bathroom for a few hours? Consider this Mooshelle’s contribution to the slimming of America – a forced diet for a few hours. Big whoop.
Oh, BTW – on-time statistics are a FEDERAL REGULATION. The airlines suffer financially if they do not have good on-time statistics. Those statistics are a federal requirement. Without the federal requirement, airlines simply do their best to get you there on time. With the federal laws of on-time stats, they must do everything to make that stats look good – the stats take precedence over the paying customer. (HARDLY “DE-REGULATION” to blame – more like GOVERNMENT!)
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:52pmI would not fly for so many reasons and this is just one more. I cannot imagine them holding people against their will. Scary. Can you imagine the claustraphobic people on that flight! It could have caused some serious problems. No thanks. I don’t care how long the trip takes me, I’ll take my car.
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:55pmRose Ellen your dreams of the down fall of my great country will only come true in the mind of your dead body.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:57pmI think it’s ROSE-SMELLINS’ fault. I have no reason other than she sucks for this assumption and she probably is a 16 year old pimple faced teen boy who also surfs the midget porn sites!
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:59pmMHP
I‘ve often wondered what I’d do if I were in the same room with the guy. I‘m afraid I’d not be very polite either, but I would only hit him with the TRUTH and watch him flubber without his teleprompter. He’d probably have BimboBiden or Pelousy run cover for him and in either of those cases it might get really ugly.
Bet you’re from Texas. Plain talkers down there except for the large metropolitan areas where the Moochers live.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:10pmEverytime I see the movie AIR FORCE ONE with Harrison Ford…..I always wonder what Obummer would do in the same exact situation…..dollar to donut BHO would hop in the pod and float on down to Africa or Indonesia or Hawaii…
JET BLUE crashed into a canal several years ago (the airline had another name)
I no longer fly anywhere. Some TSA thug checking my “junk” out???
RollOVER Richy Trumpkeeee
Wonder who frisks Peeloooski when that batty witch flys?
Does Mikey Moore get SPECIAL HANDLING when he goes thru airports OR does he jump on his private JET (Moore made $222 MILLION on Farenheit 911)
You fly ANY airline—-these days YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS.
Report Post »THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!!!!
MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:22pmNOTAMUSHROOM
I’m from Wyoming, and was born there, but I have lived in Dallas, in 1985 when Henry Wade (JFK assassination) was Dallas Co. DA.
I never met the guy, but wish I had. I did go on a few ride alongs with Dallas PD tho.
They’re good people.
I also got relations in the Ozarks in southern Missouri. I am thinking of going back, least part of the year.
Report Post »As you remember the Beverly Hillbillies was in part filmed down in Silver Dollar City, matter of fact I knew Shad Heller who played the mayor of Bugtussle. Shad was a blacksmith as he described in the show, and his work is fantastic. I hope I can one day collect one of his trains.
I shore miss it down there.
The greatest AG we ever had was John Ashcroft who used to be Governor of Missouri.
Rummy was the greatest SecDef we ever had too.
Pinetta is not doing bad.
I have this from inside military info, Obama wasn’t even in on the planning to kill bin_laden, and he wouldn’t give the order either, Pinetta and Gates did themselves.
He wouldn’t give the order to kill al-wa-laki, or the pirates who took the Alabama Maersk—this one I took personally, as I been on their ships, and I probably knew Capt. Phillips in all the years I worked security at the Port of Seattle.
I also know Capt. Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and were good friends, and I took care of our ships the Farley Mowat, which we no longer have and the M/V Sirenian Used to be the USCG cutter Cape Knox.
We have it in Galapagos.
quiltgal
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:42pmRose-Ellen:
Tell me exactly how Jet Blue benefited financially from keeping people in the plane for 7 hours?
Report Post »usaforce
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:20pmExactly! I remember the article from Time Magazine talking about the coming of the next Ice Age in the mid 70′s. Nice post.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:24pm@rose-ellen
Report Post »I met your boy-friend today… GZUStehLibrul (Jesus the Liberal), or was that your son?
usaforce
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:42pmExactly! Just like the Time article in the mid 70′s
Report Post »jhslider8
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:07pmROSE-ELLEN
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:02pm
“Greedy hypercapitalism gone amok. It started with your idol -Reagan and deregulation.Let the businesses go unbrridled.Money is to be made.OWS is paving the way for 21stc capitalism with a human face-euorpean style socialist democracy is a coming. Down with calvinist-if you‘re rich you’re blessed by God and must be pleasing to Him. And puritianical pull yourselves up by your own bootstrap work till you drop ethos.Universal health care, a guaranteed wage or job, free highter eduction for those who could benefit ,and less idolotry of wealth and busines will be the way of future. Creativity and innovation may be curtailed but we have enough stuff and are advanced enough we need to scale down. A more laid back culture will develop.”
It looks as if you could use a bit of higher learning yourself. I did not see a coherent thought within that entire rant. Perhaps next time you should take it easy on the lysergic acid diethylamide until you have completed posting on blogs for the night.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:38pmMHP
Can’t remember where I heard that but I knew it as well. Guess I can’t see Neville OBlamer actually having the stones to make that call all by his little cry baby self.
@Quiltgal
Rosie the Commie just drops bombs and amuses herself at the responses she gets. Kind of like a self gratifying Commie pervert. Don’t expect it to actually have a conversation with you.
Report Post »DiamondDog
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:54pmRose-Ellen…. Go make love to yourself.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 11:47pmSurvivorseed, Global warming? Really? You cant tell me what the weather will be in 2 months but you can predict the temperature of the earth within one half a degree one hundred years from now?
Report Post »Predict the temps in Dallas next July 15th to July 30th with in one half a degree and I will believe you about Global warming.
weeblewacker1
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:46pmya it is so hard to figure out that climate change thingy! like when there’s more heat in the atmosphere,that there is also more moisture!! but that’s besides the point. as for being stuck on that plane, hows that federal deregulation of airlines working out for ya?
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:44pmIt’s unexscuseable! These people should have their money reimbursed.. this is criminal! And then the Governor makes excuses! How pathetic!
Report Post »dhuge67
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:51pmEh. It’s not good business but the people complaining so much is dumb to me. They should get their money back, and then some, but I’m an Army officer and I know about conditions that I have had to endure, and 7 hours without food, water, or working bathrooms would be nice compared to even some events in basic training, let alone Iraq.
Report Post »hollister4530
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:59pmI’m with D… I was a flight attendant for 2 years. There are a lot of “behind the scenes” issues going on other than just what the public sees. Especially during inclement weather!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:07pmIt is cruel and inhuman to keep people emprisoned without food or water.And it USED to be a crime to hold people against their will!Humanity trumps any regulation-and that an airport in connecticut has not anticipated weather problems-makes no sense and even if it did ,it would still be wrong.Where are the legislatures and where is law enforcement? And i’m not a communist-i believe in a socialist,capitalist hybrid economic system.[like the eurropeans-who will get it together]Too many private companies have TOO much power over people -and people have little recourse against these private entities. very scary and very dangerous!
Report Post »Alky
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:53pm“-and people have little recourse against these private entities. very scary and very dangerous!”
Rose… people have plenty of recourse against these private entities, don‘t buy their products or services and don’t work for them. If enough people do that, they’ll just go away… as long as your dear leader doesn’t bail them out!!
Report Post »bjornskis
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:43pmif our US forces did this to any terrosoist they would be up on charges
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:09pmAs well they should be. They’re human beings too and are entitled to humane treatment.That’s ostensibly why we fought wars–to oppose inhuman treatment of people by others. Whatever label you put on them. If we‘re not about that then we’re a nation of hypocrites and our laws and bill of rights are not worth the paper they’re written on and we have nothing to complain about when others oppose us.Watch how the media down plays this abuse of the citizenry as they consistently have regarding the treatment of people by airlines for years now!
Report Post »USaidWhat
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:59pmI believe Miss REllen just admitted to being a hyprocrit, kind of like Barry Soltero and his cheesey wif
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:12pmThe people were treated badly thats a given. The airport should have allowed everyone to disembark when it was clear that the flights would not continue on. If the snow was unprecedented, then the flights would not resume anyways. An airport is the most dynamic part of the local infrastructure that is being impacted in real time by such an event. The state should have been involved right away instead of sitting around waiting until this thing got worse before deciding what to do. When in doubt, side with common sense and human dignity. Remove the people, set up food and hot coffee.
Report Post »atrain
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:54pmRose-Ellen – Please take your meds and take a step back from the keyboard. I have long ended any effort to reason with people who chose not to use reason in their own daily lives. Have a nice day.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:39pmrose-ellen
You’re saying terrorists are human even if they killed 3000 of our people.
You should be dead too.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:39pmThis is just absurd…
By now the airports, each airline company – should have some form of emergency Tarmac response vehicle to go out, flush the plane lavatories, supply food/water/etc to the plane to give people comfort while they are stuck waiting, this has got to be put into effect and quite frankly, given how great Jet Blue is, I would think they would be at the forefront of doing something like that.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:46pmjb.kibs
You got that right **** on the floor
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:09pmWar is about killing people always has been . War is terrorism with a bigger budget-the sticker on my car says. Yes they’re murderers-so are we and everyone else. They believed they did not start this war -we did with our unjust blind support of israel and with the first gulf war and ensuing sanctions against the people of iraq and our unjust propping up of murdering dictators. So save your thin skinned self serving hypocrisy for your Fox media gulls.We spent the whole last c murdering men women and children all over the world-and now the first 10yrs. of this one too.Thin skinned lying Hypocrite!You’re just mad they brought you to the knowledge that the belief you could act in the world with impunity was no longer a given! How dare they! Didn‘t God tell these people we can kill others but no one can’t kill us!We have our reasons when we drop bombs on men women and children-they had theirs. THAT‘s why you’re angry-never thought it could happen.Tough- it did and you’re murderers too!Hypocrites. Welcome to the 21stc-of people-all peoples-not regimes or even superpowers.Especially not lying murdering hypocrites-the world hates hypocrites .And the world knew you had it coming!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:36pmIf the pilot of the plane made a request for a gate & the airport authority does not comply, maybe the airport should get the fine.
Report Post »mdb749
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:17pmWhat ever happened to those little mobile steps that we used to use? Who needs a gate? We can walk!
Report Post »PATRIOT PRIDE
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:35pmSome chest pain would of solved this.
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:58pmI’m good for them, had em many many times. I would have had em call for the ambulance immediately.
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:30pmI don‘t know what you’re crying about you cowards ! You allowed yourselves to be sexually molested before you got on that flight, so what else did you expect ? Just sit there and shut up ! They’ve got alot more planned in the near future, so happy traveling.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 7:45pmAgree with you 100%.You have to bet the rest of the world is laughing at us. What next, stun gun to the forehead so the passengers don’t complain? Some will say, can’t happen in America. Oh really?
And on that note, folks, Good Nite, Chet….Good Nite, David and Good Nite America…signing off…till we meet again….HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU- UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN ah the days of listening to Roy Rogers on the radio………
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:26pmThat is inhumane to hold people on a plane that long without food, water, or bathrooms.
Report Post »The airline needs to refund these people, and learn how to deal with snowstorms.
This is New England, it’s not like this is the first snowstorm that ever happened!
1bambam
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:35pmeven the fleabaggers occupying wall street are treated much better then that evil corporation Jet Blue treated those that were occupying their Jet …come on Jet Blue Your making the Fleabaggers case wise up…..
Report Post »Sloburn
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:19pmDidn’t any of these people know how to operate the emergency exits?
A emergency slide is better than being locked up with 300 idiots who cannot find a door.
Report Post »shift
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:29pmThis is why I never fly anymore, once I had to sit on the tarmac in Miami in the heat of the summer with no airconditioning for over an hour my god, i really thought we were going to die. There was no explanation, no attempt at making any of us more comfortable, again, they turned off the AC although i think we still had air flowing through the vents. Everyone was dripping with sweat and could barely breath. This and the fact that now all the airlines are jamming their seats so close together, you cant even bend forward to put your head down like they tell you on the crash/safety information because the seat in front of you is so close now it will not let you. It’s absolutely insane and of course they have taken all the fun out of flying a long time ago, and now you have to even buy your own snacks at ridiculous prices. I choose to drive now because of the idiots that make the rules and the fact that they have done everything possible to make your flight as uncomfortable as possible.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:47pm@Sloburn
Report Post »Exactly what I was thinking. I’d have pulled the handle after the first hour.
hi
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 6:02pmI agree. I wonder what happens if someone does opens the door? I’m claustrophobic. I couldn’t sit on that plane like that, but I wouldn’t like being handcuffed either!
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:17pmThis has baffled me each time it happens, why can’t they either pull up to the gate, or bring one of those mobile stairs and let the people disembark, it sounds like torture, they sued, and i don’t believe in suing.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:21pmtypo they should be sued
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:32pmWell that is what a normal thinking mind would do. Get the plane to the gate unload it and go park it. What 25 minutes tops . Next…and lets go boys ….But don’t forget you are dealing today with the minds and actions of the stupid. Were leadership on every level is not present.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:16pmNot a good situation to be in but there are people who undergo worse than that every week, in the military I did amny times, you’ve always got a bathroom if you need to go bad! Actually compared to some things I experienced, they had a picnic! I’m not downplaying their situation, just saying!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:15pmFines go to the government .. nothing for the passengers unless the airlines decide to reimburse them. That is B ull you know what. There is no excuse for this … even if they had to bring in one plane at a time and deboard the passengers .. it still could and should have been done.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:26pmIndeed the fines will go to the fed’s and the passangers are put out yet again; the fact the JetBlue called this a ‘confluence of events’ is tech speak for someone not being aware of what was going on and not willing to make a decision to take care of the people stuck on the plane instead of looking out for their own tushie to be covered.
I will say this much, if I was the CEO of JetBlue and seen this happen, not only would a appology and compensation go to the passangers directly; there woould be Gods own thunder being called down upon all of those involved, and the ones who messed up, canned across the board.
Report Post »FireWolf
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:14pmI don’t feel sorry for any airline passenger caught in this situation.
You chose to continue flying despite common sense telling you otherwise.
You made your bed, now lay in it.
Report Post »Fitz Gerald
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:28pmWhat rock did you just crawl out from under?
Report Post »FireWolf
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:41pm@fitz You can make jokes about living under rocks (isolationism) or you can continue to pay to have Airlines, and the TSA abuse you. I choose voting with my wallet.
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:41pmthat‘s the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard.
Report Post »m r 2 dux
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:11pmI‘ll be Mr Nice Guy for 3 hours then it’s rip the door off and lets all walk to the terminal. Jet Blue and the communists in DC can Kiss my azz!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:41pmThat’s about 2 hours longer than my tolerance level. ; )
Report Post »MHP
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 8:44pmcopatriots
Well legally you have to give 3 hours
I could have beat that with medical issues
For fliers, Make sure it is medical, don’t fake it, but if you have even the slight chest pain
Call it up and declare an emergency
slight medical and even chest pains could mean death at the end.
So ven if you got cellphone. call it out.
EMS will respond to the plane.
Don’t fake it tho, it may not allow EMS to respond to anybody who may die.
But EMS says if you have even a slight pain, call 911 they will know and EMS crews who respond will know.
Ambulance crews don’t give a **** of the costs, all they want to do is save your life, PERIOD
The bill, deal with it later.
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Report Post »Larry Sheldon
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:57pmI’ll bet a reasonable pilot would have know not to take off into that weather.
Report Post »Larry Sheldon
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:55pmI call Bull bleep. What would they have done had it caught fire?
Is Jet Blue owned by United Airlines by any chance?
Report Post »Tear Em Up
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:54pmWow! And, after all that, they are still stuck in Connecticut. I would pull my hair out and that would take a while….
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Report Post »TPaine
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:52pmTwo ways to “solve” this problem – one, as happened, someone gets sick and requires medics. The other is to stand up and blow the emergency door – that’ll get everyone off really fast. The airlines do not give a rat’s patoot about the laws. We got stuck in the same airport due to the ABE airport being weathered in, and were stuck in an Allegiant plane for hours. That was before I refused to ever fly on another commercial flight. I’d like to thank the TSA for making that possible.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:51pmA query!
Report Post »How much are the fines?
The overelming question is why do the passengers that suffered not get the money? The government has no skin in the game
I know for myself after three hours I’d be freaking out, because of being closed in. I’m surprised someone does not pop an emergency exit. After all that is what they call unlawfull restraint
TPaine
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:31pmOh, the passengers get compensated…probably $100 off their next JetBlue flight. Whoopee! The airlines don’t care about the passengers at all, because they know that “the people” have to fly. Oh, yes, they do! People will put up with any inconvenience, including sexual assault, $50 carry-on charges, $5 Cokes, and $15 blankets, just to get on these planes, and they know it. Have fun, people…this is not going to stop.
Report Post »lisalake
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:50pmThey can care less about the law— and those twitter messages show little outrage — the airline will continue to do as they please — sickening.
Report Post »gwssacredcause
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:50pmBusinesses regulated by a socialist government. Good example of our nations future.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:48pmI will never fly again, period!
I hope I will not have to eat these words in the future.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:54pmIve been 5 years non flying. It is freedom!
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 4:31pmIt took me longer to learn my lesson. For me it has been 2 years.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 5:49pmYou guys are slow when it comes to non flying….Its been since the moment the TSA took charge that I havent attempted to fly. Besides taking the car affords better scenery.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:47pmI bet there was no shortage of twits twittering, though.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:46pmWhere was that PO’d flight attendant with the beer and the emergency slide when we need him?
Report Post »NCTRUTH
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:43pmthis is just so STUPID. any other business keeping people like this would be called kidnapping.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 3:52pmThere is no excuse for trapping people in a metal tube and denying them food, water and access to bathrooms. My guess is that the airport is the issue rather than the airline, but even when airports are closed, they maintain bare bone operations and should be able to allow passengers off a plane.
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