Delta passengers fall ill while stuck on tarmac for hours during blistering Las Vegas heatwave
Delta Air Lines has apologized for the incident and said it is investigating the matter.
Delta Air Lines has apologized for the incident and said it is investigating the matter.
Everything about the airline industry is unrelentingly awful and hostile to consumers. These companies perfectly represent the disregard this economy has toward individual people. That they continue in this fashion, year after year, shows how completely the regulatory state has failed.
Maybe they are trying to pivot and get jobs at Microsoft, Apple or John Deere.
I don't even understand why people fly so often, it's awful even when everything goes right. Flying used to be cool and fun.
I absolutely HATE flying and avoid it as much as possible. However, if I'm going to a conference on the other side of the country I can't dedicate 6 days to travel. I'm 33 hours from LA for instance, that would equate to 3 days each way of 11 hours in the car each day. Realistically, it would be more like 8 total days of travel with 4 each way.
I fly about once a quarter and I still absolutely love even a mediocre experience. I'd say 95% of my flights are without any issues. It's been YEARS since a bad experience. I feel it's completely worth it to explore, visit friends, etc.
Overwhelmingly for me it has been work related. I think excluding a funeral and work I have flown only two round trips the past decade. I am at the airport about 6 or so times a year.
Maybe the United States shouldn't have removed several regulations from the airline industry and letting them govern themselves
I have flown on airlines based and operating entirely in the 3rd world that were consistently better than Delta domestic in terms of how you were treated.
“Uncomfortable temperatures” is a wild understatement. People could have died
They don't like to turn on the engines for AC because it wastes fuel.
Engines aren't used for AC on the ground. The APU is, or an external AC unit is attached to the plane.
"The plane ultimately had to head back to the gate".
Sounds like they weren't at the gate anymore, and I doubt they have external AC on the taxiway
Someone is getting sued.
I thought it was illegal now for airlines to keep people on the tarmac for hours like this
Maybe the cost to do this is less than the expected value of
How likely to be caught * size of fine
?
I could have sworn there was a law that was passed a while back that limited the amount of time passengers could be stuck in a plane rather than return them to the airport.
Incidents like these expose how dysfunctional and unsustainable our current economic system remains in this catastrophic climate crisis.
And of course I am flying next week to a hot area.
