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joining us is cape and the executive director of liars rights dot ordered
kate thanks for joining us
and probably so what exactly happened at j_f_k_ the last week but the snow storm
i heard about some people were stuck on plane
ends up to ten eleven hours they were not the u_s_ airlines and it wasn't
leaving it was coming back
so what what exactly happened
well actually hurt their consumer and i don't know if the port authority
responsible for it but there were quite beginning explaining six
that we're departing flight
that dot for thirteen hours on the tarmac and that with the getting of the
tarmac problem and what
happen i don't think that people realize there
but i got a call from a mother
they said my friend stuck on it all out like that just departed gate and they're
telling him he's going to be on the flight all night and this country
six o'clock p_m_ that
that email elec armed with a lot off playing along with hundreds of other
passenger
i'm beverly like that night at work stuck indate workbook work parties like
then the next day
intermittent plight
came in from overseas and again sitting on the tarmac forty q twelve hours
and how did that meeting if you look very good job of trying to keep up with
a number of flights i've counted at least thirty sick
but not one media outlet has actually reported that there were thirty six like
it because i think the port authority which
latino minding the impact by not telling them how many flights over forty carried
actually fat for over a dollar so what exactly i mean
dot correct
and let you know an alternative to our group
we at
struggle
to get just the domestic will pass
and i can't figure it they came to weapon may recall that we did
the extinction if that can convert the congressional bills had been interviewed
includes international flights
and will again in about a week but we haven't been able to get those track
the department of transportation is the one that tax the world that we now have
pertinent playing
but they were film purpose about making sure that it worked for domestic flights
but they were we're headed to include international until they got it fixed on
how the and work
now i can't believe that in a parole on the type of april or either
if you will make an announcement that will include international flights in
the world because we have been pushing
after four years do other countries have similar rules for what goes on in their
airports and their limits to how long you can take the expected to sit on an
airplane without it moving
well
florida added european at goal
standard regulations that protect airline passenger
and the cool thing about there
regulations that 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 contact trainings
with the exception of a few weeks ago at heathrow where they had a major weather
event and they had pushed back playing just like we had and the many plane fat
perfect seven-hour i don't think they had any vicap eleven and twelve like we
did awfully
just two days
and but what what is the causes of
spends every minute
bout the email five hour flight from boston to london or something like that
and then sitting on the tarmac for six or seven or eight hours or something
like that allot of times the weather events themselves
elves are only a couple of hours we know that they're coming i guess
i don't know enough about it i fly and ok amount you know not not every single
week by just don't understand how does this happen
reiterate happened how it happened probably you know
structural questions and i can answer them
that we did it happen is that gave the airline knows that if they keep majestic
right around
and they are not compelled to let you out in left there's a good reason
i think i would cut through the u_s_ don't seem to be strengthened happenings
the cuz
the spine that would be imposed
all up which go to the government are up to twenty five two thousand five hundred
dollars per person per minute
airlines are not taking the trip
and embarq and our insuring capacitor dark star complains that long
but we'll need the money conversation it is highly driven by
that mitigation of cost for the airlines and i kept waiting one thing against the
other and you can clearly the plot twenty
no domestic air carriers what their patent if it on carmax
if we can talk light
that they had to letter you know any of your thirty air travel you have to
cancel flights
but my computer like will probably
careful because three-hour or anything like that we could get some of those off
the brown but they couldn't take the chance which is good because
all the events that we track
in forty years up there where the airline did take the gamble
four hundred check into that sitting out on the tarmac for our inner worth an
hour and people can't handle it
felt basically what you've got a situation where the international
carriers cook the gamble
an example of it
based on their reputation
because they knew they would not be any fine and
port authority entirely dropped the ball adair k
blackberry short memories when it comes to what happened with jetblue they
promised during bag packed like up or that i would on that they would not ever
letter kaplan if that happens at without yet have the head of the port authority
last week
that's not our fault
you know if the airlines fault on average
you cannot believe that you're well ok very fair
now what what's your what's your position on
overweight travelers having to pay for two seats are now
you know i have every time i think about it i'm split on one hand it seems
somewhat discriminatory and the other hand i can't help but think if you're
taking up to see
maybe you should be paying for them what you thought on that
well canada allot ericko eric there
air transport ministry it's actually a little that editor of the and you bring
a doctor's note guilty given second feet
some ike
i think you know back at me we they want to consider that in here y
powdered
we have a growing population
hand-written
of wealthy people on the right fit airline fee
art one fact fits all is anything that smallest
if you look like they're doing well smaller the airline
where they are not yeah i spoke with the material to make them work
but we think that that issue here is that leg room into getting majlis at at
over the last thirty years labor pitch has actually gone down and that's
because the f_a_a_'s had no minimum angered
for liberal even college the only than i think they have uh... i would stand for
the exit row with to ensure that you could keep a record thirty emergency
before but i think lines are not going to agree to that unless the government
was it's a then x and then of course is the second morse
then you know we're going to hear from people on that on that front
well then we have to put less
in the flames which would be less revenue from that
so but we are kicking up this issue about overweight and talk to people live
here
because larkin with the people actor bay
that weren't happy with the airline the reason for it had to do with labor and
and they are au-pair a lot of people have contact with
rarely fatal blood clots
i've got a lot of people have died from blood plucked from being week fifty like
they don't often weekend c
in the back of a plane right i don't even recline
now that don't require that all perhaps
and what they quote on the web site at their living room
and people aren't one-foot at fault that we need
somehow accommodate people inside
and people uptight
added and
and also product safety in point yahoo ensure as the f_a_a_ to ensure that
every catheter can exiting aircraft emergency in ninety again
and i guarantee you
at with the heat tried as they are in the letter and replied isn't it
there's no way that people are able to get out the merchant union destiny
executive director lives next wasting so much for joining us today
any bradley ok take care