Washington – The Transportation Department is ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes to deplane after three hours.
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday announced the three-hour limit and other new passenger protections long sought by consumer advocates. From January to June this year, 613 planes were delayed on tarmacs for more than three hours, their passengers kept on board.
Under the new rule, airlines must provide food and water for passengers within two hours of a plane being delayed on a tarmac and maintain operable lavatories. They must also provide medical attention when necessary.
The new rule is effective in 120 days.
this rule doesn’t require them airlines to allow passengers who were davening to complete their tfillot before they are forced back to their seats for takeoff. Many times becasue of the z’man, we have to get up and daven by the galleys because of a flight delay, and then all of a sudden they tell us to sit down in the middle of the amidah for take off. We lose our kavanah and this is a big chilul hashem.
This will only cause addtl delays
Rabbonim have said you should daven in or at your seat not parade around and create problems for the stewards and stewarsesses. It is a bigger chilul hashem
when we cause problems.
I fly quite often and you have to be sensitive to others, in fact I am flying cross country today. I will daven mincha before I get on the plane
I guess you should call your congressman and make an amendment to the the new rule and provide a special davening rule.
Chuchem fin di ma nishtana. Daven before you leave to the airport. Ever think about that?
#1 – If the plane hasn’t taken off you should probably start davening in your seat, which many poskim hold you should do regardless. But I’m no posik, so ask your LOR.
“Rabbonim have said you should daven in or at your seat not parade around and create problems for the stewards and stewarsesses”
This announcement comes over the PA system after a 3-hour delay at Newark:
“Good Evening. This is your captain speaking from the cockpit. We have good news and bad news. The good news is that we have finally been cleared by air traffic
control to take off. We very much regret the lengthy delay. However, we unfortuantely have some chashuve yidden on board who are davening in the back of the plane because it is nearly sunset and zman mincha and they don’t wish to be disturbed because it would interrupt their kavanah which is against thier religious beliefs so we will have to wait a little bit longer until they give us the all clear. Thank you for your understanding”.
I could see it finally the airline will provide prayer rugs for Muslims and Hindu’s and Eucharist and wine for Roman Catholic, and for the Jews a Tallit and Tefillin and for a mere 25K airline miles you could upgrade to a dip in the Mikveh in the terminal, and when it comes to the Vasikin Minyan the plane will circle in its location so you would align your prayers with the proper second. This is so ridicules that there is no need to even argue about it.
You should sit to daven on a plane, it is a sakana.