Surviving Airplane Delays
Categories: airline, delays, Jet Blue, American, FAA travel delay
Will a few heartfelt apologies and complimentary travel vouchers (with restrictions) be enough to keep JetBlue customers coming back for more delays, inconveniences and airplane entrapment fiascos?
This Valentine's Day, (February 14, 2007) hundreds of passengers shared the "be mine" hallmark holiday aboard a landed plane at JFK. But this recent tarmac stranding is not the first. In fact, on December 29, 2006 passengers of American Airlines flight 1348 sat on an Austin runway for almost nine hours.
Although in both cases, these tarmac travesties were due in part to in climate weather, it does not say much for the FAA and airlines carriers ability to appease customer satisfaction.
And according to the newly appointed Congressional lobbying group, the Coalition for Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights, airlines are not motivated to amend this consumer violation. With the Democrats holding the reigns of both houses, consumers and airline passengers may see a reprieve of these travel atrocities.
But until airline companies implement new contingencies for planes without terminals, what’s an abandoned traveler to do when stuck on a plane with a hundred or more angered passengers? Pack wisely and arm your carry-on with the following goodies:
• Packaged snacks (favorite chips, candy, dried fruit etc)
• Power up the iPod (to tune out the pandemonium)
• Melatonin (to promote sleep)
• St. John’s Wort (enhance the mood)
• PDA to document everything, take notes on the hourly chaos
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By Holly Bentz (c) 2006 fruitionMedia.net
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