Originally Posted by
TxDucky
TBH, the priority here was landing the A/C without doing something that will extend the out of service time rather than a concern about the pax. What’s done is done, the pax compensation is already baked-in.
Devil's advocate here - at some point, keeping passengers on the plane for the benefit of the airline becomes false imprisonment. Obviously, the passengers have no option up in the air and cannot leave (although it would be cool to parachute out of a plane...). But what about extended tarmac delays? What if it's 6 hours or 12 hours? What about 24 hours? Again, talking about durations longer than this incident.
Straight-up ignoring the needs of the passengers feels wrong.