Airline Swines

I am indebted to The Consumerist* for pointing out this one to me.

Airlines tried, thankfully unsuccesfully, to OVERTURN a New York state law forcing them to provide their passengers with "fresh air & lights, a waste removal service and adequate food and drinking water" whenever a plane was stuck on the tarmac for over three hours.

I'll repeat that for the people that didn't quite get it. There's a law in place that FORCES airlines to provide basic human needs to passengers when a plane is grounded for any length of time. Grounded, usually, for the airlines own purposes or problems (repair work, no gate, late luggage, etc). For periods where it might cost the airline just a few bucks more to disembark passengers into the relative comfort of a terminal.

So there was a law in place to provide "human decency" and the airlines - in all their fucking infinite wisdom - wanted it overturned. Which would benefit NO-ONE except maybe..... oh yes, the fucking airlines' bottom line.

Consider my shit well and truly gripped.

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