Originally Posted by
highflyer40
Just think back to the days when passengers in the US were kept onboard for 5/6 hours waiting.. Didn't congress make regulations to end that practise?
After 1-2 hours there can be no “valid” reason!
I would imagine that anything that kept people on a plane for that long is perfectly valid. Do you think the airlines want to keep people on board for that long?
They didn't outlaw keeping people on planes, they merely stated the compensation for doing so, outlawing something which cannot be avoided sometimes would be ridiculous.
If someone was shooting up the place inside the terminal then I'd pretty damn sure want to be on the plane. If weather conditions deteriorated after landing to the point where nothing could push back from occupied gates, all suitable gates were being used and winds exceed the limits for ground service equipment to be used (as happened to me on arrival into NRT about 8 weeks ago) then I'd be quite happy remaining on the plane too. I was just over an hour after landing until we got on stand due to the backlog.