re: American Airlines passengers were left 'sobbing' after being held on a hot plane for 6 hrs

frick that. I'm taking the slide after hour one.

I had a fight out of NOLA a few weeks back. After we boarded we sat in the plane for a half hour. The attendants were saying it's just a maintenence issue. We'll be back up. They got AC from the gate. (We never left gate )

When I saw maintenence get on. I told my wife and kids to grab their bags.
We were the first to deplane. Attendant didn't want to let us off at first. Said we may not get back on.
We got off and we're the first to book a later connecting flight. We were going to book the next direct flight. Anyway. But five minutes later the entire plane deplanes and gets in line at the ticket counter I'm already at.

When we're moving. I'm fine. If we're stuck I want off.

Anyway our direct to Newark turned into a connecting o Laguardia that I changed into a connecting to Newark.