Originally Posted by Efrem
I was on an AA BOS-MCO flight in January that was delayed seven hours. (Mechanical problems; they had to fly a part in from New York.) The aircraft stayed at the gate. We were allowed on and off at will with nobody checking. ....
I had the same on BMI from LHR to AMS - engine would not start, they herded us out. And back in 90 minutes later.
We were taxiing when they did notice that we were short one pax. We stopped, returned, called everyone by the manifest. Then deplaned as three pax did not answer. All luggage was unloaded. We all had to get new BPs and lost another 2.5 hours - just to find out that one pax with no luggage and a same day return C ticket did not return to the plane.
So they take it very, very seriously.
The captain was swearing about that one passanger via the intercom repeatedly for the duration of the flight. Which I found somewhat OT as it was BMI's handling of pax that made it possible.