Re: Detaining pax on board - Legalities?
bjcc
You are giving us some insight into the legal side from your pov, but I think missing ours. So let's try an analogy.
You are a passenger on a bus stop/starting on the M25. You decide you've missed the meeting... and want to get off and walk. You say as much to the driver.
Is he committing an offence by refusing to let you off the bus in the middle lane of the M25? Or must he immediately get to the hard shoulder and let you off? Or exit at the next Motorway exit and let you off? And has he not breached some duty of care or whatever letting you off in a dangerous / prohibited place? And what you do as the police to the bus driver? And to the now motorway pedestrian?
This leads on to a situation we have where bus drivers are refusing to let us alight as one exits from LHR airside, and insisiting "for H&S" we mst stay on the bus to the other side of the airport, to have to return by public transport. The point we request to alight is a grassed verge to a public road, it is not illegal to stop there etc. Are they breaking the law? Do we have the right to demand to be let off?
Thanks in advance...
NoD