Travel: Flightmare In Dallas

• 1/7/07 - Flightmare in Dallas - - 3 1/2 flight forced to endure additional eight hours sitting on the tarmac at an alternate airport. They ran out of water, snacks, and the toilets were clogged. American Airlines refused to allow the plane to come to a gate because they didn't want to mess up the schedule for other flights. Captain was yelling at the terminal control to allow him to a get, but they kept refusing. He finally went to a gate on his own accord.
• American Airlines refused to grant an on camera interview to MSNBC on 1/16/07, but they finally admit they will apologize to the passengers.

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• American Airlines Plane Sits On ABIA Tarmac For 8 Hours (7 hours ago)
• Dallas -- An American Airlines flight that was stranded for eight hours on the tarmac of Austin's airport finally reached its destination in Dallas-Fort Worth Saturday, a day later than planned. American Flight 1348 left San Francisco at 9:10 a.m ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16410092/
• Flightmare in Dallas (1/10/07)
• DALLAS, Texas - It was supposed to be a routine 3 1/2-hour flight from San Francisco to Dallas. But this story really begins in Austin. That's where several American Airlines flights were diverted the Friday of New Year's weekend. Kati Hanni was one ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16565583/
• Passengers say the ordeal ended only after the pilot taxied to a gate without permission — 15 hours after the flight had boarded.

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• Dear Kevin: Thank you for contacting customer relations. We appreciate your concern for travellers depicted in television coverage. The airports struggled with this issue, and we had to divert more flights than we had ever done before. We know that many of our customers were feeling the impact i the next day. As hard as we try to respect our customer's time, It just wasn't possible to operate our flights on time on December 29. You can be sure that we are carefully reviewing our operational reports from that day looking for further ways to improve our contigency planning....
• Jane A. Knight, American Airlines

• "The complaint isn't the delays, it's the fact that you kept them prisoner on a plane for 8 hours! Ask your pilot who was begging to dock the plane at a gate. Why not try this with a friend or a date, and keep them in the car for 8 hours, because it's not convenient to let them out. See what kinds of charges the authorities come up with. Then pin the plastic wings to your chest, claim you are with American airlines, and that it wasn't possible to get them home on time."

Maybe the milk of human kindness has turned to cottage cheese on their shelf.

Even if they had perfectly working toilets, etc., you can't just keep people prisoner like this.

Armstrong and Getty wants to sponsor a law that for every hour over 90 minutes that people are held in a plane like that, the pilots, stewardesses, etc., the entire air crew, spends a year in jail for every hour.