Their statements says they were ‘uncomfortable’ temperatures.
Nah fuckers, those are DANGEROUS temperatures. This just wasn’t an uncomfortable wait, this shit is serious
Of course this isn’t an unpopular opinion but I absolutely loathe air travel. It’s always a stain on any trip I take. I just got back from a trip where every connecting flight was missed by the fault of the airline. Who schedules for 1.5 hours to land, deboard, customs, security, and transit to another terminal at DFW? Why is the standard to do maintenance checks during boarding?
Now I’m not super familiar with how the systems work, but on most planes the AC doesn’t seem to work until they can start the engines. Atleast that’s been the case for almost every Boeing and other smaller regional jet makers. But with my most recent trip we were on A321s and those fuckers were frosty all the time. It was 102 outside and I was cold as fuck waiting for pushback.
I guess my point is, we need more laws on how long a reasonable wait is while boarded, and stricter regulations for high/low Temps… which can be averted by whatever the fuck Airbus is doing on the vomit comet A321
This is the sort of thing that is going to need FAA regulations. It is cheaper to leave people waiting in the heat then to move back and let people wait at the gate.
Apparently airlines can leave you inside a plane sitting on the tarmac 3 hours for domestic flights and 4 hours for international flights. I think those numbers are ridiculously high, especially if it’s 100 degrees and the plane has no AC.
https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer-protection/tarmac-delays
I never fly delta, no matter how cheap the tickets are. I’ve never had a good experience with them.
Is there a ranking system I’m unaware of? I thought Delta was one of the better ones compared to say frontier or spirit.
Frontier and Sprint are a different tier than Delta, which is in the same tier as American Airlines. With Frontier and Sprint, you should expect everything to cost you something snd your trip to be bare bones.
Delta shouldn’t be like that at all. But within its tier, it’s the worst.
I’m the total opposite. I pay up to double the fare sometimes to fly Delta.
Hopefully this bad press on this incident causes some policy changes at Delta on tarmac delays. That sounds miserable and dangerous.
The list of “I’ll never fly X” gets pretty long. It might be faster to say which airlines one should use. I think my order is JetBlue, SW, and United (carry-on only). But honestly I don’t fly enough to recommend that to others.
Every Jetblue flight I’ve ever been on has been delayed. I’m typing this while waiting for a jet blue flight right now (weather is perfect and AA and Delta are flying into my destination currently so thats not it either). I travel occasionally for work and it doesn’t seem to matter what airport, day of the week, time of year, or time of day…jetblue will be delayed. The planes are decent and the cost isn’t bad but if you’re flying jetblue and have a connection then God speed, you’ll need it.
Filthy and disgusting. Truly pathetic. Prosecute Delta’s board of directors for murder and grievous bodily harm.
I agree for the bodily harm but the article doesn’t mention anyone dying…
