Deplane! Deplane!
The Department of Transportation is apparently fed up with all those long waits on the tarmac:
With its new regulations, the Obama administration is sending an unequivocal message to airlines that it won’t tolerate the delays experienced by some passengers, such as an overnight ordeal in Rochester, Minn., last summer.
Under the new regulations, airlines operating domestic flights will be able only to keep passengers on board for three hours before they must be allowed to disembark a delayed flight. The regulation provides exceptions only for safety or security or if air traffic control advises the pilot in command that returning to the terminal would disrupt airport operations.
I can’t think of a flight that I have taken since 9/11 that has boarded (much less) departed on time so part of me says “yeah finally”, but on the other hand I can see how this may cause problems. I definitely foresee a rise in the number of “safety issues” as the airlines revert to form and declare everything a safety issue so they can get around this rule.
Are we cynical about everything the government does? ["Yes."—ed.]
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