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Old May 9, 2010 | 1:23 pm
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Originally Posted by hingethunder
The delay turned out to be 4 hours of sitting at JFK with the occasional bit of taxiing.!
I hadn't realised that the DoT had made an exception for international flights. If it had been a domestic flight you would presumably have been taken back to the terminal within 3 hours, which would have added to the delay, if the flight didn't get cancelled.
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