Originally Posted by
boybi
I thought passengers aren't allowed to get out of the plane after you've boarded the plane?
AA has a "we are headed to XXX, if that's not your final destination now is the last chance to deplane" announcement on every flight.
Originally Posted by
Scots_Al
Though, of course, if you had a checked bag in the hold, that would need to be found and offloaded; this has been standard since Lockerbie.
Originally Posted by
blackmesa12
Was the captain just bluffing?
No, and No.
Since at least 2011, but I believe it was much earlier than that.
14 CFR Parts 244, 250, 253, 259, and 399
Docket No. DOT-OST-2010-0140
RIN No. 2105-AD92
Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Final rule.
As for commenters' concerns with reconciling passenger manifests and dealing with the checked baggage of passengers who choose to deplane, we are not requiring airlines to re-board a passenger who chooses to deplane and therefore misses a flight, or to remove the checked baggage of a passenger that has deplaned. DHS/TSA also doesn’t require that passenger’s checked baggage be removed if the passenger is no longer on that flight. We encourage airlines to announce to passengers that they are deplaning at their own risk and that the flight could depart at any time without them