why couldn t they just bring out the air stairs and a bus and unload these people? that s the point. they could have terminal 4 at jfk has 14 passenger mover buses. they have 14 sets of portable stairs, and anywhere an emergency vehicle can go those buses can go, and they could have deplaned them. the problem is the port authority did not appear to be motivated to make that happen. so we know that no laws were broken here, but were promises broken in your opinion? promises were broken. i was on a tarmac delay task force for one year, and the port authority and all the other airports in the u.s. promised they would never allow the kinds of situations that happened to jetblue four years ago happen again. and here we are again. and do you blame the port authority or the airlines or the customs officials or who s at fault? i blame all of them, but ultimately i blame the department of transportation for not including international flights in the rule. i think they got snookerr
contingency plans for long on ground delays. clearly both failed this weekend. you heard the family say that some people, including themselves, had asked to get off the plane. they had been promised a shuttle would be coming at the seventh hour of their wait. what can they do in a case like that to get off the airplane? why couldn t they just bring out the air stairs and a bus and unload these people? that s the point. they could have terminal 4 at jfk has 14 passenger mover buses. they have 14 sets of portable stairs, and anywhere an emergency vehicle can go those buses can go, and they could have deplaned them. the problem is the port authority did not appear to be motivated to make that happen. so we know that no laws were broken here, but were promises broken in your opinion? promises were broken. i was on a tarmac delay task force for one year, and the port authority and all the other airports in the u.s. promised they would never allow the kinds of situations that happe
jfk has 14 passenger mover buses. they have 14 sets of portable stairs, and anywhere an emergency vehicle can go those buses can go, and they could have deplaned them. the problem is the port authority did not appear to be motivated to make that happen. so we know that no laws were broken here, but were promises broken in your opinion? promises were broken. i was on a tarmac delay task force for one year, and the port authority and all the other airports in the u.s. promised they would never allow the kinds of situations that happened to jetblue four years ago happen again. and here we are again. and do you blame the port authority or the airlines or the customs officials or who s at fault? i blame all of them, but ultimately i blame the department of transportation for not including international flights in the rule. i think they got snookerred saying, oh, no, this will be too cumbersome for us. we can t possibly follow this rule. but unfortunately, that means any internatio
we tried but failed to get international flights included in the rule. we also tried but failed to get airports to have mandatory contingency plans for long on ground delays. clearly both failed this weekend. you heard the family say that some people, including themselves, had asked to get off the plane. they had been promised a shuttle would be coming at the seventh hour of their wait. what can they do in a case like that to get off the airplane? why couldn t they just bring out the air stairs and a bus and unload these people? that s the point. they could have terminal 4 at jfk has 14 passenger mover buses. they have 14 sets of portable stairs, and anywhere an emergency vehicle can go those buses can go, and they could have deplaned them. the problem is the port authority did not appear to be motivated to make that happen. so we know that no laws were broken here, but were promises broken in your opinion? promises were broken. i was on a tarmac delay task force for one year
you just nailed it. when i was on the tarmac delay task force, the biggest conversation that we had was all about situational awareness and that there needed to be teams of people that work for tsa, border patrol, the airport, the airline, and the faa, all in communication with each other so that they could coordinate appropriately to get people off of planes. each airport has to have a team and they have to communicate with each different body in order to get these folks off and get them taken care of. the priority should always be the passengers safety and i guarantee you, it s not safe to have people, especially when seven out of every 100 people is diabetic, you have a lot of compromised health going on on these flights that needs to be taken care of and they can t possibly take care of themselves. sure. it could certainly get a lot worse. kate, thank you so much. people really have to think about what s going on. maybe somebody is taking notes and maybe we ll see perhaps a di