Originally Posted by tuapekastar
Article in today's
Melbourne Age written by a pax on the flight. He alleges they spent 12 unfed, unwatered hours in the plane at JFK!!
I was a bit confused by the "12 hours without water or food" part of the article:
As we taxied, engines burning fuel to keep the air circulating, cabin staff were ordered to arm the doors. This meant that for 12 hours we could not be served food or hot drinks and there was no entertainment. The passivity of the passengers was remarkable, as was the pilot's growing anxiety.
First of all, don't they have to arm the doors before pushing back from the gate?
Second, how does arming the doors prevent the FA's from serving food or turning on the IFE? I was stuck on the JFK tarmac for 6 hours during a weather delay on a flight to SHN, and by the time the weather finally lifted and we were able to take off, we had seen two movies and eaten dinner already.
I'm no expert, but it sounds to me as though either the pax in the story got some of the details wrong, or the pax on the plane were really fed a bunch of BS about why they couldn't serve food.