According to the federal officials, thousands of passengers became stuck on at least 28 flights at John F. Kennedy (J.F.K.) International Airport.
The stranded passengers spent more than 11 hours on the tarmac of the airport due to the paralyzing blizzard this week. The 28 flights that got stuck had one thing in common; they all started outside the area of the United States.
Moreover, the federal officials passed a regulation this year that reprimands airlines with heavy fines if the airplanes are kept on the landing strip and one for close to 11 exhausting hours. However, the new regulation pertains only to flights that start and stop in the U.S.
On the other hand, the Transportation Department has been in view of intensifying the regulation to take in international flights and the stranding can oblige the agency to act. A 24-year-old dental student named Shoham Elazar from Miami landed at Kennedy airport Tuesday on Turkish Airlines Flight 1 coming from Istanbul.
The airplane sat on the runway for over six hours before it can unload after a flight of almost ten hours. Elazar said that after they declared that they will be stranded for another one hour and a half it became chaos.
She also said that all the passengers that were stranded were yelling, moaning and walking around. They were irritable about the screaming of children. Furthermore, Kate Hanni, Flyers Rights' executive director, said that what had happened in J.F.K. will be the leaning point after she experience a series of same, extremely announced sufferings that led to the federal regulation for domestic flights.
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