Originally Posted by Mauricio23

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...PREC112409.xml

There you go - 50,000 USD fine for a Tarmac delay to the airline, and 75,000 to the ground operator - and this was a commuter plane. Any airline exceeding a 3 hour Tarmac delay in the us or failing to provide food and water faces up to 27,500 in fines per passenger. Care to calculate that for a 777?

I'll repeat it - a 7 hour Tarmac delay is unacceptable, no matter how logical the sequence of decisions that led to it. Air Canada shoul own up to it, offer serious compensation (which, no matter how you put it, a $250 voucher is not), and count their blessings they were not in th US.