Stuck on tarmac? Sucks to be you.

[unixronin]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal task force that spent nearly a year wrestling with ways to assist people delayed for hours aboard planes parked on tarmacs has finalized its recommendations — none of which requires airlines and airports to do anything.

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"We were hoping at a bare minimum to come out of this task force with a definition of what is an extensive on-ground delay," Hanni said, but that didn't happened [sic] because the airline industry "doesn't want anything that is remotely enforceable."

(Emphasis mine)

That second quoted paragraph pretty much says it all, doesn't it...?

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I recalling hearing stories of passengers calling the local police with charges of false imprisonment, but I can't remember any specifics...