txaggiemiles

This sounds like the opening scene of Final Destination.

MatthewLAX

shabat shalom

makes sense now.

jsloan

If their time constraints were so tight that they had to leave half an hour later, they should have left when the pilot said it was the last opportunity to do so without impacting everyone else. What if they'd ended up with an unexpectedly long taxi, got stuck in a holding pattern when landing at BRU, etc.?

mduell

Do you really want to confine yourself in a metal tube with some religious hardliners potentially going to commence operation freak out? Crew doesn't either.

RichardNixon

So in that situation, I wounder if the airline has the spine to pursue any damages for the wasted crew and cost of rebooking everyone.

If not, it sounds like a really great way to intentionally inconvenience a bunch of people in order to protest something.

jp12687

In this world today I highly doubt they do.

i wish they did. I lost an entire day of business, another person had to have his parents drive 400km to pick up his kid from school, another group of kids were on a trip to build a school in Africa and missed the flight for the next day at lest.

the entire flight was highly inconvenienced.

the flight landed well before sunset even with the additional 2.5 hour delay due to the crew timing out for this.

eng3

Reminds me of a domestic flight several years back on 9/11. The person in front of me boarded quite early and even had the FA help him with his musical instrument into the overhead. Just before closing the door, he goes up the the FA and demands to be let off the plane because he is suddenly uncomfortable flying on 9/11. We wait 30min for them to find his bag only to find out that he is done this exact thing "several" times that day and his bag is already at the destination.

Unfortunately, there is little the airline can do about this type of situation and just has to accept this as a part of doing business. Luckily it is very rare.

ekwang

Had this happen last year. To make it worse, after second group deplaned we were detained at gate so they could refuel the plane. I hate it when passengers have the ability to hold others hostage on mere whim.

Annalisa12

Then they might really freak out in the air.

What made them all want to get off?

Why would the captain call you up ?

nomad420

It was stated above as a "religious reason"??? Not sure what that could possibly be, it sounds like just poor excuse to me. What a mess.....

jp12687

pretty sure cause I was the only GS on the plane and was visibility upset about this.

jsloan

I suspect it was a legitimate concern that they would not reach their destination by the start of the Sabbath.

I just think they should have considered that half an hour earlier when the captain said "last chance to deplane."

jp12687

This-- they should have made that decision way sooner then the doors being closed. They boarded the plane VERY quickly in about 25min and got the door closed. They should have never gotten on the plane at that point if it was that close.

nomad420

Agree, or at least all in mass. Also, and a bit off topic, but I thought you could sit in a vehicle/plane/bus as long as you are not operating it. When we were kids my Jewish buddies back in Cleveland always had an angle on this

jp12687

depends. A lot of the more orthodox view that differently (for the record I am also Jewish)