{"id":518281,"date":"2010-04-06T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004187"},"modified":"2010-04-06T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:40:55","slug":"u-s-airways-continental-get-head-start-on-observing-new-tarmac-delay-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518281","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Airways &amp; Continental Get Head Start On Observing New Tarmac Delay Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/tarmac-thumb-240x160-38980.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Even though the new FAA rules regarding tarmac delays don&#8217;t kick in until April 29, both U.S. Airways and Continental say they have already begun observing the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The new rule will require airlines to return a plane to the gate and allow passengers to deplane if it has been waiting on the tarmac for three hours, or face fines if they do not.<\/p>\n<p>In an employee newsletter sent out yesterday, U.S. Airways wrote that they actually started observing the rule on April 1:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To protect itself from being fined, US Airways has implemented &#8216;trigger&#8217; points to monitor delay times&#8230; If a plane is out on the taxiway for two-and-a-half hours, and takeoff isn&#8217;t imminent, the pilots will make an announcement and return to the gate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Continental, whose CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/to-avoid-fines-for-late-takeoffs-continental-will-just-cancel-flight.html\" >had previously announced that the airline would cancel flights rather than be fined for late takeoffs<\/a> now says that if a pilot of flight delayed two hours doesn&#8217;t expect to take off before the three-hour deadline, the pilot will &#8220;reposition the aircraft at either a remote area or gate, where customers may deplane safely and securely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other news about the new FAA regulations, the DOT said yesterday that they are pushing back the start date for a new rule requiring airlines to put flight delay data on their Web sites from April 29 to June 29.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gQBMOTeByN9KU0YHaY1n5QH5zoCQD9ET55N01\" >Airlines start tarmac delay response early<\/a> [AP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the new FAA rules regarding tarmac delays don&#8217;t kick in until April 29, both U.S. Airways and Continental say they have already begun observing the regulations. The new rule will require airlines to return a plane to the gate and allow passengers to deplane if it has been waiting on the tarmac for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518281","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\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}