how can a flight go out when the area is hit by 2 foot snowstorm? it amazes mw when people ***** and complain over something the airlines cannot have contro over! they are only human!
2007-04-12 06:03:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
I know this sounds mean, but I will say it is a general ignorance of how the aviation system works. Most people think that because they can drive to the airport, that a plane will be able to take off. Or they call their friend in the destination city and he tells them that there is no weather here so the airline is lying to them. When in fact, there might not be weather at the exact location where that person is but there probably is weather en route somewhere that is clogging up the air traffic system.
2007-04-12 16:01:55 · answer #1 · answered by IFlyGuy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes the airlines should communicate better.
I was flying one time and connecting through St. Louis. I knew we were running late due to weather. When we arrived in St. Louis I checked the Departures monitor to see if my connecting flight was on time and saw that it was. So I ran to my connecting gate and the TV behind the gate agent said that my flight was on time which meant that boarding should be almost over. When I got to the gate agent to check in, she told me the flight was going to be delayed. The TV monitor did not update the status until the actual scheduled time of departure. If they had been kind enough to tell people ahead of time, I would have understood completely. Instead I was mad for a lack of communication.
Other times the airlines should KNOW better.
The airlines (and you) have access to the following website: http://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/
Check it out. This feed comes straight from the FAA and lets users (the airlines) know where and when Ground Delay and Ground Stop programs are in effect. This page is updated every five minutes. Additionally, the airlines have a desk to represent them in the main Air Traffic Control Facility in Herndon VA. This allows them to actually coordinate with the FAA on where and when programs may or should be implemented. I was looking at this page the day Jet Blue stranded those passengers on their aircraft for way too many hours. They should have never boarded those passengers.
Weather is very unpredictable. Meteorologists do an admirable job of giving us the best heads up that they can, but Mother Nature just doesn't like to cooperate some days. I am not mad at the airlines for something they can't control, but I am mad when they don't communicate in a timely fashion what is really going on in the National Airspace System. If it's a weather problem, just tell me, please!
2007-04-12 07:55:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of the people are single who are workahollics and have not much better to do when there flight is delayed if it is not the airlines fult they still put it right if you are happy to wait at the airport then you will norally get on the next flight airports are good now they have shopswifi and all other things whale you are waiting what anooyes me is when people are late for there flight and blame some one elce
2007-04-15 05:17:32 · answer #3 · answered by thomaswheeler1991 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the airline's fault for a weather delay, true. However, the airlines have not been treating passengers very well lately when it happens.
2007-04-13 14:55:22 · answer #4 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THANK YOU... I know I dont have to listen to it as much as the poor gate agents or even the flight attendants but I get alot of dirty looks when Im waiting at the gate for the agent to let me down the bridge when we are already in a delay... I want to say "People, LOOK OUTSIDE!"... At least someone understands...
2007-04-13 16:13:02 · answer #5 · answered by ALOPILOT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They blame the airlines, because
1) the weatherman doesn't overbook passengers;
2) the weatherman doesn't have deep pockets;
3) the weatherman doesn't care what you say -- he has no competition
2007-04-15 08:49:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A wise man once told me that a person is generally smart. People (as a group) are stupid. My experiences in life tend to bear out his words.
2007-04-12 09:42:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Combine Ray K and IFLYGUY's posts and you pretty much THE answer to your question.
When pax get frustrated, they feel better if the grouse at somebody, whether it's rational or not. Usually it's "not".
2007-04-12 16:39:51 · answer #8 · answered by Squiggy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are the same people who give the waitress guff because the food is bad
2007-04-12 06:41:43 · answer #9 · answered by walt554 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it makes them feel better to complain about something.
2007-04-12 06:18:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋