$27,500--I'll take it

[densoo]

For seven hours, the passengers on JetBlue flight 504 have been grounded at Bradley Airport, with no bathrooms and no water, according to passengers on the plane who are Tweeting and others who contacted NBC Connecticut.

A paraplegic on the flight had a medical issue, and about seven hours after the plane landed. It was at that point that police and firefighters came onboard to render medical assistance.

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...violations of its three-hour tarmac delay rule. The rule stipulates that tarmac delays longer than three hours are subject to a fine of up to $27,500 per passenger.

 

[saabcaptain]

Goes to the goverment not the passenger.

 

[densoo]

Goes to the goverment not the passenger.

Whaa?! Oh well.

 

[trip]

Gonna have to put ladders on every jet, there's the door and the terminal is that way...

 

[BrokeFOsho]

Pilots diverted to BDL and then begged for a gate, or stair for 7 hours. The governor of CT came to apologize for the horrible handling.

 

[ackattacker]

There are a few "outs" in the tarmac delay rule. If JetBlue can show that it had an appropriate contingency plan in place and that it adhered to the plan it may get out of any fines and/or civil lawsuits. If at any point they deviated from the plan then they are screwed.

 

[IBNAV8R]

A real captain would have used the emergency slides.

 

[scoreboardII]

into a snow storm?

right......

 

[Stifler's Mom]

BDL is a city that JetBlue serves. So where were the station agents?

How about one of these? http://media.cygnus.com/files/cygnus/image/GSM/2007/NOV/300x300/airstair_10025716.png

 

[labbats]

Hope they left their transponder on the whole 7 hours!