there is no excuse for it.

i can maybe even understand it getting 2 hours. but you would think after 3, 5 ,7 + hours they would just let them off .

I really hate flying anyway. There can be no good excuse for keeping passengers locked up as if they were in jail. Yet, complain too much and you end up in one.

If lawmakers had to travel in the same seats as the rest of us, they would get the point.

I would have been a basket case after 30 minutes. They seem to always turn off the air when you have to sit on the tarmac and it gets unbearably hot and stuffy.

this has to be top drawer.

Yes - absolutely, these US citizens have a right to complain!

I bet nobody worldwide likes being forced to stay in an extremely limited and unhealthy environment for 12 hours longer than necessary for absolutely no good reason. But if you have some people that like doing so please feel free to post their comments.

I take it you don't mind the inconvenience but I also bet you have never experienced it.

And what the hell does w.r.t. mean?

I had to ask the same question once upon a time

I didn't know w.r.t. either.

w.r.t. means, and I still don't understand the post.

I just reread it and wanted to tell you that I admit to not really knowing WTF he/her is trying to tell us.

in the Middle East is horrific. And that any complaints we have may seem to pale by comparison.

But being trapped on an airplane is one of my biggest fears and I don't believe anyone, anywhere should be subjected to it for longer than absolutely necessary.

I also don't believe that anyone anywhere should ever have had to suffer from the terrible things we did to the Middle East (based upon obvious lies) and still are doing.

There's not much more that I can say.

on humans. I maintain that allowing the small transgressions to pass by unnoticed lead to the horrific doings.

We need to speak up against inhumanity wherever and whenever it occurs. And this may not be a bid deal to you but I assure you, it is to others.

I think your equivalence is out to lunch.

It really doesn't matter if you agree or not.

Thanks for keeping me amazed.

a stuck Etihad plane?

Its just typical 'mini-disaster, airline news... anything to sell... click throughs.

OK, for all those "foreigners", I'll include you! If you took affront!

jeez louise. Some posters are totally predictable.

And I won't apologize for this post.

By the way, how did you come by that name, J17?

heh. You're funny.

Maybe you got up to early.

Sweet!

Overseas flights are a fucking pain in the ass. I live abroad so I end up having to take them if I want to go anywhere. In fact I'm headed south next week.

Realistically after 2 1/2 to 3 hours if the fog didn't clear they should remove everyone from the plane and let them back into the terminal, then feed them and let them use the regular bathrooms (not the shitty small ones on the plane) and stretch their feet. Bring in some cots and pillows and let the passengers rest if they are going to be stuck there. I know that most airports have these as a contingency for a variety of purposes.

And, I wouldn't treat animals like this either. Nothing should be forced to be cramped up for hours on end without a very valid reason.

I agree with you though. It was a bad situation all the way around.

From today's news.

I try to remember that some people may have it worse than I do that day.

How much money does one have to have to be inconvenienced on the tarmac of one of the most expensive cities in the world? Seems they could have bought a pillow and some water, slept or something. First class could have shared.

"Passengers said the flight crew told them the Abu Dhabi airport was too crowded with other stranded flights to allow them to get off the plane to wait.
...
The airline told The Associated Press in a statement that "unprecedented fog" had delayed flights, caused airport congestion and Flight 183 was one of the planes most affected."

An unprecedented weather event caused overcrowding. Possibly not in the terminal, but a bunch of jets rolling around on a foggy runway doesn't sound like a safe thing either, nor does letting the passengers off on the runway and telling them "good luck, the terminal is more or less thataway".

Pretty easy to armchair criticize their actions, but I have seen a busy airport get hit with a thick fog, and suddenly a lot of very deadly stuff can still be moving but without a really clear idea of what they are heading for.

driving in the car, meeting the people, touching what really goes on. And boats are great for getting around the ocean, and you get to meet some of the most interesting people. Though next time I am not joining the service just to get a cruise.

...too many planes had diverted, and there wasn't room in the terminal. Somehow we survived.

after flying for 8 coming home from Paris (on a flight delayed leaving CDG 3 hours). MAJOR snowstorm the day before left the airport without enough personnel to deal with the international flights. They also couldn't take the luggage off the plane because they needed someone from Air France there for that and there was nobody. Didn't get my luggage until the following week when I went to JFK to get it - this is after flying business class. Yeah, we survived but it was a hellish trip (followed by no car services running at the airport and we had an industrious fellow charge us $90 apiece to get to Manhattan).

My god, never, ever fly through Heathrow if you have to change planes.

Airlines don't give a crap about their Flight Attendants but I can hardly believe that the Pilots were allowed to fly after such a delay.

I also never understand why an empty aircraft is not pushed off a gate, so that another can offload...at least the passengers that want can go home (if they are local).

In the U.S. there are finally regulations that will cost the airlines big money if they hold people too long (3 hours?)...they must be allowed off.

The original crew did not fly that aircraft.