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Frozen Flyers
January 18 2011 by Chris McGinnis
Old man winter is walloping business travelers big time this month.
With the new "three-hour rule" that forbids holding airline passengers on board grounded planes for more than three hours, airlines are being forced to change the way they deal with winter storms.
In the past, airlines hesitated to cancel flights in hopes that weather might quickly change for the better allowing them to resume flights.
But with the threat of big fines for holding passengers on planes or having them stuck at the airport, airlines are now much more likely to cancel flights hours or even days ahead of time and instruct affected passengers to stay away from the airport until operations are up and running.
There are pros and cons to this new approach.
On the pro side, with ample warning, fewer passengers are likely to be marooned at airports for hours waiting for flights to take off. When airlines cancel thousands of flights ahead of an impending storm as they've done recently, they've done a good job at advising affected passengers to stay home and stay warm.
On the flip side, it's taking airlines longer to get operations back up to speed and passengers re-accommodated once the bad weather clears up.
Personally, I think the pros outweigh the cons as I'd rather wait out a storm at home or in a hotel rather than at an airport. I'd also be willing to accept a slightly longer delay to do so.
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