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In the American New York state a recent law has been approved that protects the rights of the airline passengers in the case of a long stay of an airplane in the airport before the takeoff and after the landing. According to the new law, if the duration of stay is more than 3 hours, the airline has to provide the passengers with food, drinks, fresh air, electricity and functional toilets. In case of the inability to provide all these services the airline has to pay a fine of $1000 to the passenger. The law will be active from the 1st of January 2008.
The appearance of this law was initiated by the recent scandal in the Kennedy airport in New York where the passengers of some airlines had to sit in the planes for 8-10 hours also after the landing. One of the airlines could not even pay for the buses that deliver the passengers to the terminal. Though, after that this airline has expressed their excuses and promised to hold their passengers not more than 5 hours. New York is the most wait-time troubled airport in USA. |
