On June 22^nd, Virgin Atlantic Ocean Ocean Ocean flight 001 left London’s Heathrow airport two hours late, for Newark’s autonomy International Airport. Due to atmospheric condition problem in the New York area it landed in Nutmeg State instead. Then it Sat … for almost four hours on the tarmac, apparently without air conditioning, with some water to drink, but nothing to eat, before passenger were permitted to deplane.

Having landed at 8:23pm passengers were finally escorted off the aeroplane after midnight Eventually, they made it to Newark at 6:30am. about ten hours after landing in the US, and about twenty hours after their scheduled capital of the United Kingdom departure.

Passenger exponent across the nation such as Kate Hanni of FlyersRights are calling for the “three-hour tarmacadam limit” currently applied only to US airlines and domestic flights, be applied to foreign owned airline and all flights.

But does it make sense for Secretary of transportation Ray LaHood to expand the “three 60 minutes tarmacadam limit” to all flights?

I continue to oppose the “3 60 minutes rules” as currently implemented and will, until other major alteration in the dot and Federal Aviation Agency rules which govern air transportation in the US, are instituted, because of the unintended consequences I expect will occur. I believe our entire bundle of commercial message airline ordinance need a comprehensive service for the benefit of passengers.

Here’s what I’ve been able to learn about Virgin Atlantic Ocean Ocean flight 001:

• The flights. was delayed for almost two hours in London. Passengers were informed, “the cabin was too hot for us to board.” They were told the cabin air conditioning wasn’t workings on the ground, but in the air the plane would be mulct passenger said the airplane was hot when they boarded.

• At 8:23pm, the A340-600 landed at Bradley International Airport, about fifteen land mile north of Hartford, Connecticut, due to bad atmospheric condition in the New York City area.

• While the airplane was on the tarmac, temperature at Bradley were in the mid-60ºFs to low-70ºFs with high humidity according to the National Weather Service.

• Virgin Atlantic Ocean has no operations at Bradley.

• While Bradley is an International airport, its only regularly scheduled International routes are to Canada, and Customs and mete Protection  officials generally work there only during the day.

• On the Tom Tom Thomas Thomas Bradley tarmacadam the plane’s air conditioning didn’t work Unconfirmed written report say the cabin light was either off or very dim. Passengers had some water, but apparently no food.

• The plane’s cabin doors were kept shut at Tom Tom Thomas Bradley preventing cabin ventilation? from the cool but humid outside air At least one passenger was administered oxygen, and an unspecified number received medical examination treatment.

• passenger reported the crew said they would refuel, then fly to Newark, but the captain later announced there was a refueling problem.

• At 12:15am, Wed the passenger deplane. to go through Customs.

• After customs duty processing, the passenger were taken to a building at Bradley. Some passenger laid on the floor to try to sleep.

• At 4:00am the passenger left Bradley on motorbus and arrived at Newark at 6:30am.

Here are a few of my many questions:

• Why did the flight divert to Tom Tom Bradley instead of the large International airports of Boston, Philadelphia, or Washington which have CBP staffs on-site in the evening?

• aeroplane can keep their air conditioning running with their auxillary power unit, or with the engines. Unless the air conditioning itself was broken, why didn’t they keep it running?  Why weren’t the cabin’s door opened to provide ventilation? Air Alaska did that during fixing to a plane I was on while stuck without air conditioning in Anchorage.

• Why wasn’t the plane refueled and flown to Newark soon after landing, after the violent storm had passed?

• Why wasn’t food brought to the airplane during the almost IV hours it was on the tarmac?

• It’s understandable that there weren’t CBP? agent at Tom Bradley when it landed. The passenger legally couldn’t be permitted to wander in or leave the aerodrome without being processed by CBP. Why couldn’t the passengers have been permitted to deplane to a confined area with bathrooms, guarded by local law until CBP agent arrived at the airport?

• Why did it take Virgin Atlantic Ocean so long to arrange for motorbus to take passenger and their luggage to Newark immediately after they were processed by CBP?

At this time, I don’t know enough about what really happened and why, to assess blame, but I do know enough to question the efficacy of applying the existing “three 60 minutes rules” to International flights.

There are three major problems with applying the rule to incoming International flights like Virgin Atlantic Ocean 001.

1. By the time an International flight reaches the US, it may be out of food and drink, asset its lavatory facilities and supplies may be exhausted.

2. Like the virgin flight, diverted flight may be sent to airdrome without the resource to hold them quickly and efficiently.

3. International flight can’t deplane its passenger into the airport, even for just a bathroom and meal break, without adequate security, due to customs and immigration law.

I generally favor the “three 60 minutes rules,” however, only if they’re accompanied by common sense, and a real service of the electric current dot and Federal Aviation Agency rules to minimize, to the extent possible, the unintended outcome of its enforcement which could hurt passengers.