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Passengers stuck on United flight in frigid cold for more than 14 hours
- Thread starter Dalek
- Start date
Only entitled Americans would demand $50k from a $25 billion airline after being held on a plane for 14 hours.
God bless America.
God bless America.
Gutless Americans holding a multibillion dollar airline "accountable" when the airline arranged for Tim Horton's to be given to them? They should be thankful!
Hey now, every time I'm in Canada I stop by Tim Horton's to remind myself just how bad Canadians have it.
You bastard. I just spit out my drink. Lol. I was not ready for that
Tim Horton's is swill, but Americans swear by fucking Dunkin' Donuts and that shit is sub-instant coffee.
*looks at his Dunkin' Donuts coffee that he's currently drinking"
At least it's not McDonalds?
Listen, convenient drive through coffee that tastes good is hard to come by okay
Every single flight I have ever had into or out of that cesspool of an airport was a disaster.
Why are we blaming United or America on this exactly? It was a medical emergency and they ended up in Canada where they didn't have customs people to process them. It seems like everyone involved did the best they could TBH.
It was in Canada though.
It's a small civilian airport that handles small (15 or less passenger) aircraft in the middle of nowhere Atlantic Canada. It isn't equipeed to handle an emergency landing of a commercial airliner filled with international passengers in the middle of the night.
Town is population 8000
In Canada McDonald's coffee is actually decent as they bought the blend Tim Hortons used to have before they sold to Americans and all the products got downgraded to maximize profit.
It sucks, and my first reaction was "ugh another passengers bill of rights case this is ridiculous," But in this case... they're in a remote airport in the middle of nowhere with noone working and it was an unplanned landing due to a medical emergency and the airline doors were broken ... Seems like United tried to handle things right and most passengers seem to be saying the crew was doing everything they could.
Still I'd lose it if I were stuck on that box. My wife and I flew with our ~3mo old infant a couple months ago, and it was a short flight, 1 hour, but for the 15 mins we were sitting on the tarmac waiting, I Was still getting antsy... baby was asleep but all I could think ws that we'd be sitting on the tarmac for an hour, she'd wake up, and piss everyone off.
Still I'd lose it if I were stuck on that box. My wife and I flew with our ~3mo old infant a couple months ago, and it was a short flight, 1 hour, but for the 15 mins we were sitting on the tarmac waiting, I Was still getting antsy... baby was asleep but all I could think ws that we'd be sitting on the tarmac for an hour, she'd wake up, and piss everyone off.
I always love the "14 hours and dwindling food" lines. Like, you can go for days without food, let's not act like they were about to resort to cannibalism.
The bigger concern would be people like diabetics or kids.
The bigger concern would be people like diabetics or kids.
This would be annoying AF. Glad aside from discomfort there was nothing more severe.
Can't wait for the Netflix documentary, "12.7+ Hours".
Can't wait for the Netflix documentary, "12.7+ Hours".
And controlling the crowd.
Being stuck in a cold, crowded, uncomfortable steel tube is bad enough. Being stuck in one while everyone is hungry is much worse.
Plenty of food and drink probably would have helped pacify the crowd and made the staff's job easier at least.
Well, even that shouldn't really be an issue, as the flight was scheduled to be st least 16 hours.
I've been stuck in an airplane for 5 hours before at SFO, so nowhere near this bad, but I can say one of the first things to go is the bathrooms. Going without food is complicated but the lack of toilet supplies escalates pretty quickly too. (In my case it was a pacific flight so we were already 13-14 hours on the plane by the time we landed).
Yep, United
OP
OP
What would've happened if someone just... got up and left the plane and then the airport and came back in the morning? Or at the very least, why couldn't they just sit in the airport wtf this sounds idiotic af
Happy Valley-Goose Bay is a remote town of 8,000 people. Commercial aircraft like this typically only land there during emergencies. The problem is international treaties with no leeway for contingencies like this.
Running out of insulin is less of a problem than not having food available. A good diabetic would have enough insulin for some time (and that never goes in the hold as it is temperature sensitive) and sugar tablets in case of a drop. But they could run out of sugar tablets ...
Source: I've been a type 1 diabetic since 1993 and I travel a lot.
ETA:
Note that the food they eventually provided, donuts, aren't exactly diabetic friendly.
