Dagmar wrote:

Acidus wrote:

The Obama administration took aim Monday at tarmac horror stories, ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes to disembark after three hours.

Frankly, I wonder why it is no one's bothered to claim a kidnapping charge against an airline for keeping them stuck on a plane for hours on end, without being allowed to just say "to hell with it" and leave. I know if I had been one of the poor people who sat on the tarmac for more than eight hours recently I'd have flipped my phone back on and made that call at about hour four.

On flyertalk, people claimed to have insisted on leaving the plane or they would have a 'medical emergency' and they turned the plane around and took it to a gate.

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