Originally Posted by
LARobinson
My wife and I boarded DL 1608 ATL-DTW and settled in to F and noticed that the aircraft was a little warm, but not unbearable, When zone 1 was just starting to board the captain stopped people in the jet bridge and then told everyone to collect their belongings and get off the plane because it was too hot. Moments after that the air came on. The captain went up the jet bridge turning people around and one of the flight attendants told everyone to stay seated, that she was going to over rule the captain. She went up the jet bridge, apparently to try to reason with the captain but she was unsuccessful, the captain stormed back from the jet bridge and sternly ordered everyone off the plane.
It was chaos with everyone having to scan off, and about 20 people lined up at the counter trying to rebook flights because they were going to miss their connection. Despite all of the chaos the gate agents and flight attendants performed great and made the best of the really bad situation that the captain created.
I had to call and get re-booked and we ended up having to go through AMS to get to CDG.
I’m sure the captain had a reason for what he did but it clearly wasn’t in the best interest of DL or the passengers. Does anyone have any ideas of why he would do this?
I boarded a flight last week from PHL to LAS (A330-200). Boarding was delayed due to the cabin being too warm (ironic that we were headed TO LAS). After a 20 minute delay, I was boarded in my Priority group. The plane was hot, indeed. Almost brutally so. Got wrapped up in my newspaper and podcasts only to realize they stopped boarding. A half an hour later they started boarding those without status. They roll on commenting how the heat wasn't so bad. Damn peasants.