Airline Fine For 6 Hour Delay

The Department of Transportation finally fined Continential Airlines and ExpressJet for stranding passengers for nearly six hours last August.  How much was the fine you ask?  $100,000.00 was the fine slapped on their unconsciousable asses.

But they weren’t the only ones.  The company that handled the grounds operation of this debacle also got fined $75,000.00.

You can’t just leave people in a plane for 6 hours.  They left 47 passenagers on the dam plane.  The crew on the ground would not let the people off the plane.

The passengers of Flight 2816 were kept waiting nearly six hours inside the cramped regional airliner amid wailing babies and a smelly toilet even though they were only 50 yards from a terminal. The captain of the flight repeatedly pleaded to allow the passengers to deplane and enter the terminal.

In the morning they were allowed to disembark. They spent about two and a half hours inside the terminal before reboarding the same plane to complete their trip to Minneapolis.