Passenger Bill of Rights to Limit Time on Tarmac

New legislation being debated in the US Senate seeks to limit the amount of time that passengers are forced to wait in cramped planes on a tramac waiting to take off. The bill is being referred to as a “passenger’s bill of rights,” and one provision in the bill would allow passengers to have the option to leave their planes after three hours of being stuck in a take-off queue.

Most travelers have heard the horror stories of planes sitting on runways for six hours or more waiting to take off. This can be unbelievably uncomfortable, not to mention all of the connecting flights that will be missed when flights are delayed this long. Needless to say, advocates of the flying public are pushing hard for new laws to prevent this from happening in the future.

Stiff resistance from airline lobbies exists to this legislation, so there is sure to be a long fight before anything comes to a vote or gets signed by the president.

Source: Associate Press