Originally Posted by
wowzz
Hmm - sounds good but I'm not sure how happy ground ops will be, if a/c stop randomly on a taxi way.
Doesn't matter. The Captain is responsible for the safety of the aircraft and the passengers. If a passenger stands up and the pilot has to brake, that passenger could fall and injure another passenger. The pilot is well within his rights to stop anywhere if he believes passengers may be injured.
I have done it in the past where I have heard the cabin crew make a PA asking a passenger to return to their seat. I have stopped and made a PA that I would not continue until I had been notified by the cabin crew that all passengers had returned to their seats. No issue with ground control and "looks that could kill" from the rest of the passengers meant that everyone returned to their seats and we resumed our taxi to the stand.