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joining us is kate any executive director of flyers rights dot board kate
thanks for joining us
entrapment e so what exactly happened at j_f_k_ blast sweet but the snow storm i
heard about some people were stuck on planes up to ten eleven hours they were
not u_s_ airlines and it wasn't leaving it was coming back so what what exactly
happened
well actually at their command humor and i don't know support tortillas
responsible for it that there were quite beginning crippling six
that we're departing flight
that got for working hours on the tarmac and that we put the getting of the car
problem and white
happened and i don't think that people really liked it
that i got a call from a mother
because my friend dot dot nl out quite that kept apart at the gate and they're
telling him he's going to be on the flight all-night and deficit
six o'clock p m
that in a minute
or did you with a lot off the plane one
hundreds of other passenger
uh... there were a flight that night at work indate workbook work party like
then
incoming flight
came in from overseas
and again
sitting on the tarmac forty
june twelve hours
and uh... communicated very good job of trying to keep up with the number plate
i counted at least thirty sick
but not one media outlet had actually reported that there were thirty six
like yet because i think the port authority with
went you know
minimizing the impact fine dot
telling them how many flights over a four-day period actually that for over
eight hours so what exactly i mean used initial confusion that some people are
having is that we heard about this this passengers bill of rights three hours as
the maximum you can sit on the tarmac but i looked into it
number one that only applies to u_s_ airlines right
dot correct
and lessen you know it alternates darkroom
struggle
dekat just
the domestic will pass
and i consider it they can do somewhat of a miracle that we did
the extinction if that can convert
the congressional bill that have been interviewed
even include the international like
and will again in about a week
but we haven't been able to get the cash
the department of transportation is the one that pat the rule that we now have
progressed icfai
but they were filmed irvine about making sure that it worked for domestic flights
ill were hesitant to include the international and till they got it fixed
on how the at work
now if you believe that any parole on the ten th of april or quiet down
if you are making the announcement that will include international flights in
the world because we have been pushing
uh... for four years into other countries have similar rules for what
goes on their airports and their limits to how long you can see be expected to
sit on an airplane without it moving
sorta uh... european at gore
standard uh... of regulations that protect airline passenger
and the cool thing about there
uh... regulate repeat that
they are poor any flight delay
whether your emphatic plain or in fact the airport and they don't have to get a
lot of contractor and lived with the exception of a few weeks ago at heathrow
where they had a major weather event and they had pushed explain just like we had
an eight many points out perfect seven-hour i don't think they had an
evite cap eleven and twelve like we did last week
understand i understand
but what what is the causes of these things and when you think about the
email five hour flight from boston to land that is something like that and
then sitting on the tarmac for six or seven or eight hours or something like
that eleven times the weather events themselves
lives are only a couple of hours we know that they're coming i guess maybe i
don't know enough about it i fly and ok amount you know not not every single
week i'd just don't understand how does this happen
they're really did happen but how it happened early you know
structural questions and i can answer them
everything that happened it that gave the airline knows that if they can you
imagine it they've got to writing
and they are not compelled to let you out in left there's a good reason
other power rulers trapped in the u_s_ don't p_d_'s training event happening at
the kind
buying that would be imposed
olof which go to the government are after twenty five two thousand five
hundred dollars per person right
airlines are not people that were in
and embarq and our ensuring that packwood regarding stuck on points out
long
but we leave the money convocation it entirely driven by
uh... mitigation of cost
if the airlines and i kept waiting one thing against the other and you can
yet clearly this last week
no domestic air carriers what their patent if it on the tarmac
if we can talk
uh... they had to winter you know any of your
but air travel you have to cancel flights
but my guess is if you don't fight for probably cancelled because three-hour or
anything like that they could get some of those off the ground but they
couldn't take the can't which is good because
all the best that we track
it or hear outbid where the airline
did take the gamble
four hundred and check into that sitting out on the tarmac for our camera and at
work and people can't handle it
felt they kick me which bucket situations where the international
carriers cut
involved
and they can prove it
based on verification
because they knew they would not be any fine and
port authority entirely dropped the ball at j_f_k_
they have very short memories when it comes to what happened with jetblue they
promised prepared properly cap
or that i was on that they would not ever ledbetter catholic that happen
again and then when i was on c_n_n_ with the head of the point forty last week
that's not our fault
you know if the airline falconer lovers
inoperable and here well i'll pay period there
that way
what's your what's your position on the overweight travelers having to pay for
two seats are not in ohio every time i think about it and split on one hand it
seems somewhat discriminatory spin on the other hand i can't help but think if
you're taking up two seats
maybe you should be paying for them what you've done that
well sticking out of canada talked a lot that your ego thirty there
their transport ministry
happy to actually overall
that taking care of pete
and you bring in doctor note g_o_p_ effin second
ike
i think in a backup we may want to consider that and he replied
uh...
we have a growing population
pun intended yeah
wealthy people on the rise that every feet
are quite tight fit all if anything they're getting smaller
if you look like a king well marked the airline
where they're not yeah i thought that the material they make them work
but what can and at that issue here is that
leg room
into getting maulana
at over the last
thirty-year eclectic has actually gone down and that because the f_a_a_ had no
minimum standard
relented even pallet only
and i think they have a i'm with infinite exit row with to ensure that
you can keep a record for emergency before but often airlines are not going
to greeted that unless the government were to pay for that ecstasy tried and
then of course we've got to hold on a second
more spending you know we're going to hear from people on that on that front
well then we have to put less
airplane which would be less revenue from that right
well but we are taking up this issue of overweight and tall people this here
because pro-war can't at the people are survey
that were unhappy with the airline the reason for it had to do it like gramm
and they are au-pair a lot of people have contact with
nearly fatal blood clot
um... they're gonna like it but have died from blood clots from basically cnp
like i've often weekend eight
and back-up plane right dot even the client
now take a look like that also have
and what they called on the web site at their level room and people don't want
type that fault that we need
somehow accommodate people inside
and people height
add and
and also for safety in point me to ensure at the f_a_a_ difficult to insure
that every catheter can exiting aircraft an emergency in ninety okay
and i guarantee you at with the key
tried it they are in the leg room and fight isn't it
there is no way that people are able to get out and work in in that did hear the
executive director flyers rights dot org thanks so much for joining us today
eight and having ok take care