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A PAX on All Their Aircraft

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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 09:42

This spring, the government begins to severely punish domestic airlines or when taking the passengers hostage and keeping them on a plane for more than three hours. But the airline empire preemptively strikes back demanding resignations, ridiculing regulators, and, believe it or not, suggesting that travelers should really be grateful to be a hostage.

The air war against what became known as "passenger rights for" legislation is being waged both publicly and in the bowels of the regulatory process. But the essence of the counter-attack aircraft is simple: If you try to discipline ourselves for the conduct of passengers on planes for more than three hours, we'll just cancel the flight squadrons and nobody will be able to travel anywhere. A PAX on All Their Aircraft | Travel

Before we get to the realities of the last battle on passenger rights, the liability of airlines, as well as the role of government regulators, here is a recap of 11 years of insects captured.

In a blizzard of 1999, Northwest Airlines dropped thousands of leaflets on airplanes in the Detroit airport. There were congressional hearings. In 2006, American Airlines in Dallas pooched a storm and stranded flyers in about a dozen aircraft is diverted to other cities. One of the hostages, Kate Hanni, spent three years in vain to defend the legislation. In August 2009, 47 passengers were stranded overnight in a small plane airport in Rochester, Minnesota. The Transportation Department has fined three airlines $ 3,700 on a pamphlet. By the end of last year, the DOT has crafted new regulations that would penalize airlines as much as $ 27.500 passengers if it happened again. The rules come into force on April 29.

Minnesota shaken and frightened by fine with the decision of the DOT to increase the size of potential penalties and codify the rights of passengers, the airlines have sought throughout the winter for a response. The obvious problems: The constituency of flyers willing to perform for hours on a plane without food, water and sanitary operation is small. The optics of criticizing the position of common sense as "Do not treat customers like prisoners!" is horrible. And even in a business without direction, such as commercial aviation, much asphalt "holds" are of course disastrous for both flight operations and air tickets for profit.

Still, airlines rarely misses an opportunity to reduce their noses despite its fuselage, so the counter-attack began in early March, led by low-fare carrier JetBlue Airways and a legacy arch-rival, Delta Air Lines. Both centers remain perennially large delay-prone New York, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and saw an opportunity when the airport operator, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, decided the main runway at JFK airport to close for four months.

The closing track March 1 took both JetBlue and Delta to petition the DOT, a specific waiver JFK of the new regulations. JetBlue request came first, and was particularly daring. The approximately 400 million U.S. dollars repairing the runway at JFK, were likely to cause exactly the kind of lengthy tarmac delays of TM was trying to stop, said JetBlue, airline and should not be penalized for the passengers hostage. They argued JetBlue passengers will rely on its policy of volunteers, leaflets that are worth experiencing a "delay solo on board for over five hours." Ironically, JetBlue adopted its regulations in 2007, after thousands of passengers were held hostage in their aircraft during a Valentine's Day snow and ice storm. The incident severely dented reputation so untouched JetBlue, damaged his salary, and led to the resignation of David Neeleman, the company's founder and chief executive.

A few days after the regulatory move for JetBlue, however, currently chief executive of the operator, Dave Barger, inadvertently revealed the duplicity. Speaking at an investor conference in New York, Barger boasted that he was "very encouraged" by the performance of JetBlue since the JFK runway was closed. Evaluation of the time the airline was above 82 percent during the first eight days of March, about 10 percent greater performance than the usual time of JFK.

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