JetBlue plane stranded on tarmac for 7 hours

1000+ dollars per hour you are forced to sit in the tarmac per person should be the bare minimium reimbursement.

Absolutely brutal that a solution could not be found in 7 hrs. How inept is the airline industry becoming??? Airlines and airports should be planning well in advance to avoid these situations. Even if the power is out, I would rather be in a building with plumbing that works, than in ana aluminum tube. Great way for JetBlue to go bankrupt. They seem to be leading the pack in this subject. Unbelieveable....

I would have gone to jail before I sat there that long.

if they couldn't disembark on the jetway, couldn't stairs be brought to them?

passengers do not get any cut of the fines?

who gets them? the scoundrels both in the house and senate who made this law?

All they need to do is get one of those stair trucks and a shuttle bus and shuttle the folks back to the terminal. Th pilots can stay and eat up all the snacks and the toilets won't be clogged up.

Wheel over some stairs and let them off. They've already been cleared by security. I don't know what the issue is here.

This is just ridiculous, the airport personel could NOT help the passengers. The airport should be fined tooo. They have ways to help the passengers.

open the door-bring up some buses-treat the passengers with respect-let them deplane-

What happened to it being illegal to strand passengers on the tarmac for more than 3 hours? Ridiculous.

Come on! There are ways to get passengers off planes and bus them to a terminal. It just takes a LITTLE imagination to solve this kind of problem. Passengers should NEVER be left on a plane more than 2 hours on the ground.

Passnegers should recieve $250 per hour every hour they are held up like this. I bet this would end fast.

after an hour, I would have kciked open the emergency exit even if I get arrested. This is just absolutely unacceptable!!!!!!!!!

There should be laws against this behavior. How about "short-term kidnapping"?

Kick open the emergency exits, activate the slide and get the hell off! Surprised there wasn't a riot.

How's those Airline Passenger bill of rites working out????? 7hrs.!!!!!!!

Why on earth would any airline treat its passengers in this manner? It is entirely
unacceptable. JetBlue should be boycotted.

There is no excuse to keep passengers hostage on an airplane for 7 hours! Wheel up a stair case and let the people walk off the plane! Common sense would go a long way. The airline officials responsible are ducks in a pond!

The passenger's bill of rights should include an option to de-plane after two hours on the tarmac, a full refund of their ticket price at the service counter so they can choose another carrier or mode of transportation, or allowing them transfer their ticket for a later flight.

And people wonder why I don't fly anymore after reading stuff like this.

another reason to have an airline passenger bill of rights