Originally Posted by
sbm12
How many flights are operated daily? There were only 631 instances in the first half of the year. That is a minuscule fraction of flights and passengers that are affected. Sure, it sucks to be one of them but taking that out on the rest of the traveling public seems like a pretty bad way to deal with the problem.
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/thewan...a-3-hour-rule/
631 instances of what? Planes sitting on the tarmac for over 3 hours? (Source?)
If that's the case, then the new rule would have affected no one other than those 631 planes. How is this "taking it out on the rest of the traveling public"?
I think making a hundred planes go back to the gate instead of taking off at 3:15 is much better than having one planeload of pax boxed up for 9 hours like at RST.