Originally posted by avek00:
Also, I doubt that airlines, as a rule, would always want to give their customers the opportunity to get off the flight. While I suppose that each captain may have some discretion, keep in mind that each pax who gets off is likely lost (or potentially lost) revenue.
I seriously doubt that CO lost revenue, or a significant amount anyways, because the Captain gave passengers the option to get off the plane. In cases of weather, I believe that most passengers are re-scheduled on the same airline that cancelled the flight. This weather problem certainly was not unique to CO. For those four hours, I don't believe that any airline could have taken me from EWR-DTW in a reasonable amount of time by avoiding the storm.
[This message has been edited by TX_flyer (edited 07-18-2000).]