Airlines told to keep runway delays under three hours
Monday, December 21, 2009 at 10:30 am
In a move set into motion by a planeload of passengers’ overnight stay on the tarmac at Rochester Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the U.S. Transportation Department has ordered airlines to limit such runway waits to three hours.
The action comes less than a month after first-ever fines against airlines for the August incident at RST MSP. The three-hour limit is one of the demands in the Passengers Bill of Rights that travelers’ advocates have seen stall in Congress. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is among the measure’s backers.
3 Comments
Comment posted December 21, 2009 @ 11:06 am
Article has glaring factual error… twice! A Minnesota news organization should know the difference between the MSP airport and the Rochester airport.
Comment posted December 22, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
I’m still not going to fly till they get it down to two hours.
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