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re: Delta passengers fall ill while stuck on tarmac for hours in Las Vegas heat wave
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:10 pm to dcrews
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:10 pm to dcrews
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If I'm on a plane and it's 100+ degrees and you refuse to turn on the air conditioning, I'm fighting everyone including the pilot.
I think that's coming. Either that or it's time for people to start faking heart attacks or other cardiac events en masse..
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Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:13 pm to John88
Ole buttplug Pete will straighten this shite out
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:16 pm to Fe_Mike
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I don’t know how this doesn’t happen on a regular basis at CLT. You are lucky if you’re sitting on the tarmac for less than an hour after pulling back from the gate there, every time. They’re terrible.
Another problem is that airlines bounce their planes on routes all over the country, so a single storm in one part of the country causes rippling delays across flights all over the place. I’m sure there are reasons for it, but it seems like if you kept planes isolated on relatively consistent routes going back and forth between 2 or 3 airports, you could cut way down on delays by isolating weather related issues.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:22 pm to LouisianaLady
Really!! I suspect they do the ‘easiest’ thing, which is also probably the least extra expense for airline.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:31 pm to Darth_Vader
I have so many questions about this trip. Why the hell did you fly into Birmingham via Charlotte rather than flying Peoria to ATL and just drive 1 and 1/2 hrs to Ft Benning?
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:37 pm to greenbean
quote:it had to be said
Actually the opposite, flying is too cheap allowing too many people, especially fat people, to fly.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:42 pm to the4thgen
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Im not an airline pilot, only private, but most of the time they taxi with only one engine.
Sometimes but not always. I fly the A350 and we never taxi out on one. In, yes. The airlines prefer to save gas and that’s one way of doing it.
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APU isnt strong enough to propel the plane by itself, only to run the generator for power in the plane.
Some aren’t, some are. I could start 2 engines at a time on the 747 using the APU. It was better than many small bizjet engines. Couldn’t use it for thrust obviously but it kicked arse!
Give this incident a few days or a week and more details will likely come out. I’ll be on off days and typically leave all things “work” at work but if I hear something I’ll try to respond.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:42 pm to John88
Why can’t airports have one gate designated as an emergency gate? In this scenario, deplane there and sort it out, so not to disrupt the next plane assignment at the original gate.
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:56 pm to Cosmo
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I meant in general Spirit, frontier et all might be under $100
Nobody expects or should expect great service when flying some low cost carrier. This is not one of those
Posted on 7/20/23 at 3:58 pm to PassingThrough
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I have so many questions about this trip. Why the hell did you fly into Birmingham via Charlotte rather than flying Peoria to ATL and just drive 1 and 1/2 hrs to Ft Benning?
I was flying American, first mistake. As for flying to Atlanta, it’s a very long story that entails coordinating with my wife as she was coming from north of Bham, last minute changes, flights to Atlanta being fully booked, and the fact American would not be able to get me to Atlanta until the next day, which would be too late to attend my son’s graduation which was held at 9:00 AM.
This post was edited on 7/20/23 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 7/21/23 at 8:05 am to metallica81788
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I've never understood this
I don't ask or expect much from the FAs but why are they not paid until door closes, can only imagine how much money they lose
Its the way the contracts are written. Otherwise the staffing issue becomes worse. Imagine the hours "lost" if the timer started at any other point. I am not saying I agree with it but discussion the reasoning.
They also do not get workers comp if they injure their back lifting a soy boy's bag into the overhead.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 8:15 am to John88
I am a capitalist to the core, but the idea we bailed out all these air travel companies yet the prices go up while the service craters has beyond pissed me off. If companies take government money, people need to start being held criminally responsible.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 8:29 am to Jcorye1
who was on here making fun of OTers for flying other airlines and saying they only fly delta because they're the best!? 
Posted on 7/21/23 at 8:34 am to CAD703X
I fly Delta for work because in my experience they've been the best, but I certainly wouldn't shite on anyone for having preferences.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 9:04 am to John88
Yet another reason to take the train or drive.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 9:09 am to John88
My ATL to BHAM Delta flight last week didn’t have A/C. fricking brutal, I felt bad for the ladies working it, guess they had been on it all day.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 9:20 am to bamabenny
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ATL to BHAM Delta flight
???
It honestly would take less time to drive that route.
There’s also a train you can take for like $30.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 9:31 am to Btrtigerfan
Usually keep one engine on if aircraft has already landed and is waiting for a gate to come available. If waiting to depart, ATC will usually move you off the main taxiway and you shut both off and use APU. It takes some time to get engines started.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 9:35 am to LouisianaLady
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Something's gotta give with this. Why is protocol not to just get everyone off of the plane when shite goes wrong?
A few months ago I had a connecting flight on southwest in Orlando. We got on the plane and this ungodly thunderstorm rolled in. It was raining so hard I couldn’t see the plane parked next to us at the gate. It was an evening flight, and much to my surprise they actually let us off the plane to go get food. We were delayed about two hours. I was really shocked. Got home late, but at least wasn’t hungry.
Posted on 7/21/23 at 9:37 am to John88
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"Delta teams are looking into the circumstances that led to uncomfortable temperatures inside the cabin and we appreciate the efforts of our people and first responders at Harry Reid International.”
In other words, hopefully in the time it takes us to “look into it” we hope everyone will forget about this situation and we won’t make any changes.
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