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If a US Supreme Court Justice was every stuck on a plane for 6 hours, the system would be changed in a fortnight. Looks like I will have to help everyone solve this extremely easily solvable problem.

It is lucky I am very well read regarding FAA laws and how to fly airplanes [will get a pilot’s license someday!]

Only a mentally handicapped person or someone living in a cave, does not know that the US airline industry has some quirks that cause many passengers to wish to remove their own hair by their respective roots. To be stranded on an airplane for fifteen minutes to me is eternity; I can’t even imagine anyone stuck for hours! Yet, last winter, hundreds of passengers who had boarded planes in snow bound communities had such free vacations without entertainment or booze, “offered to them.” And the law even permits the pilot of the airplane to keep the passenger on the airplane REGARDLESS of conditions, till the pilot winds up at SOME gate. W O W.

I am a writer and business consultant, as some of you may know. One of the “rules” of business is not to screw your customer as you are providing them a service. I mean this as a volunteer screwing or one you are not even immediately aware of but the owner or CEO could have deduced would occur. [That’s why the CEO of Enron who pled to ignorance of the consequences of his policies when said policies harmed millions of people.]

While I am offering a simple new law in this article, I am also suggesting that a new rule be administered by or to or against the pilots and the CEOs of airlines.

ONE of the dumbest LEVELS of performance [like an athlete using steroids] that airlines love to try to out-do one another on is “turn around time”–who is the fastest–with the gage being on who takes off “on time”. “ON time” “logically” is that time from when a plane leaves its gate loaded with passengers till it arrives at the To gate. It is not. On time is STRICTLY take off time. Makes no sense. And CEOs of airlines buy into this gage of efficiency.

A law that some people don’t know exists–between the terminal –control tower–and the pilot, the one in charge of the passenger is not the tower! The one in change of the plane is not the tower! It is also the pilot. It is true and that the pilot must BE READY to meet with FAA representatives anytime it deviates from a control tower [or other FAA employee] directive.

So, let’s say we are in a group of party goers in Chicago heading to Florida and its sunny beaches. The weather is on and off; meaning, from poor visibility to fair visibility.

There is no FAA rule that prohibits a pilot from taking off or landing a plane. There is a rule that says if the pilot is being given different instructions from the control tower and he relates “tower, I need other directions–speed, or whatever, the tower is obligated to give him a new choice.” The only time a pilot will be in trouble is when he ignores the FAA and control tower. He must communicate with them and indicate that their instructions are not likely to provide the safest conclusion the pilot needs.

Returning, then, to the gate. WE are party goers and it is snowing out. Visibility is 25 feet and the run ways are so so. The pilot, if he -she is smart, will NOT even seek permission to taxi to the runway. He will stay at the gate until HE KNOWS from what he sees in the air, that it is at least safe to fly-- from his own experience.

If, on the other hand, he seeks to take off, feeling it is safe, and the tower says “xyx heavy” [all large commercial planes are called so and so Heavy] “it is safe to take off now but we cannot assure you permission to take off for more than 5 more minutes”, it behooves the pilot to sit still. Stay at the gate, where the passengers can de-plane at any time.

ONCE a commercial plane is away from the boarding gate, unique rules take over and the pilot becomes a mini God/dictator. That power needs to be partially removed.

It makes no sense whatever, for the tower [and ground control that gives the pilot permission to taxi for take-off in the first place] to begin talking to any pilot if the tower knows the pilot cannot take off in 5 minutes--the tower or ground control sees only a safe five minute “window.”

While the “percentage of on time take-offs” right now makes no sense since it measures illogical parts of the flying system [leaving the gate ONLY], if we change it to adding flight time, it would make more sense to not have this gage in the first place. How often an air carrier takes off on time has no end value to anyone. A plane hits poor winds, backed up airports it is aiming for, etc.

What South West airlines seeks, if memory serves me correctly, for a success gage, is how satisfied the customers are; and they are #1. Alaska Air was until one of their planes went into the LA bay a decade ago.

While it is understood that weather moves and some airports that had “safe” corridors and landing environments [no fog or overhead thunderstorms] may no longer on any given day at any given hour, most of the time, planes fly smoothly.

News reels show us planes lined up to take off, sometimes 20 in a row. Makes no sense.

Rather than stick every possible plane into the air that can FIT the answer is, how many can fly SAFELY with the current work load the FAA puts on each airport’s control tower that tracks every plane in their air territory!?

IF a plane can’t get permission to take off within five minutes of GROUND CONTROL giving taxi instructions, the plane should be forced to stay at the gate IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THE CUSTOMER’S COMFORT AND SAFETY.

The objective is to make customers happy so that they return to fly with you. [Meaning putting their dollars into the specific airline’s coffers.]

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