Originally Posted by
NewportGuy
I'm thinking about the optics of this.
You already divert the flight, making people late into ORD. OK, fine.
But now you taxi out, are on the runway, and the captain suddenly says "Oops! 2 minutes over some arbitrary rule, so instead of just pretending we forgot to look at our watches and take care of passengers, we're taking you back to spend the night sleeping on hard terminal floors and hopefully getting you to your destination someday! Good luck!"
Seriously, if they had taken off 5 minutes earlier everything would be fine? So they basically abandon passengers because they went 60 in a 55 zone? THOSE kinds of rules? Given the problems of the past week, and knowing how the media was going to play this? It's like some at United are deliberately trying to sabotage the airline.