{"id":408074,"date":"2010-03-09T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003037"},"modified":"2010-03-09T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:31:57","slug":"continental-will-cancel-flights-to-avoid-fines-for-late-takeoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/408074","title":{"rendered":"Continental Will Cancel Flights To Avoid Fines For Late Takeoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/jeffsmisek-thumb-165x249-37933.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Starting next month, airlines delayed over 3 hours where passengers can&#8217;t disembark will be fined a hefty $27,500 per passenger. Continental CEO Jeff Smisek said that to get around the fines, they&#8217;ll just cancel the whole flight entirely. See, you can&#8217;t fine a flight for not taking off on-time if the flight doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100309\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_continental_airlines_cancellations\">AP<\/a>] <em>(Thanks to Brandon!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting next month, airlines delayed over 3 hours where passengers can&#8217;t disembark will be fined a hefty $27,500 per passenger. Continental CEO Jeff Smisek said that to get around the fines, they&#8217;ll just cancel the whole flight entirely. See, you can&#8217;t fine a flight for not taking off on-time if the flight doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}