Angry passengers sue after plane delay – Yahoo! News

BERLIN (Reuters) – Six German airline passengers who said they were being held against their will on an aircraft stuck on the runway for hours during a snowstorm have filed “false imprisonment” charges, German police said Saturday.

The passengers filed charges against the pilot of a British Airways Berlin-London flight that sat on the runway for seven hours before it could take off, a federal police spokesman said.

The general consensus around here is if an airline can at least push back, they get paid. Otherwise, if the flight continues to be delayed, they might end up paying to rebook people on another carrier. Disgusting, but true. I remember when something like this happened on a Northwest flight some years ago.