ozbeachbabe
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In the West Australian newspaper today they had a story about how much Qantas could have been fined for keeping passengers on planes for more than 3 hours if this had happened in the US because of laws they have brought in there..
The figures quoted in the story seemed a bit rubbery so not talking about the amount of fines as such, but it seems if we had a similar system of fines or compensation due for keeping passengers locked in planes for more than 3 hours QF and the rest would probably be a lot more proactive about finding a solution to get passengers off, or cancelling or redirecting flights earlier to make sure the situation didn't arise...
Not sure if deplaning passengers and leaving luggage on was a viable solution, but with no financial harm to them i guess not too much head scratching needed to be done, if it was going to hit the bottom line maybe a few more solutions/work arounds might have been thought of???
I think the instance in the US was in a a snowstorm however it would be interesting to find out their stance when lightning is present.