Originally Posted by
bmg42000
That makes too much sense and would require airports to spend more money on movable stairs. Perhaps the best solution would be to require B6 to buy the moveable stairts for BDL instead of the fine. This way passengers may benefit in the future, B6 gets fined and the only people who is unhappy is the government.
According to the WSJ article posted above:
[At Bradley] Mobile stairs—commandeered from jetBlue—were used to get passengers off [international] planes.
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Moreover, jetBlue never got to use the portable staircase it lined up to deplane passengers because it had been nabbed by the airport to get people off the international flights.
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JetBlue says that Bradley was simply overwhelmed by too many diversions, and that its grounded flights were lower priority than bigger international planes.
So, JetBlue should be forced to buy more stairs for BDL because they were unable to use the stairs they had already bought (because BDL commandeered them)?