JetBlue Left Passengers Stuck On Plane After Midnight

Truthfully, 1 of the most aggravating components of flying is deplaning. You invest hours in a cramped steel tube hurtling via the sky at above 500 mph just to wait around in your seat when you land at your spot. Then, really don’t get me started on the gradual shuffle to the door as passengers seated ahead of you get their issues out of the overhead bins. Lately, JetBlue travellers went through some thing I’d take into account a personalized hell.

On Monday night, JetBlue Flight 676 departed JFK Airport in New York and arrived at Worcester Regional Airport in Massachusetts soon after midnight. The quick flight landed at 12:15 am but did not truly park at the gate until 1:00 am. Why did the passengers have to wait 45 minutes to get off the plane? No JetBlue employee was on the jet bridge to connect the plane with the airport gate.

Passenger Sabrina Ruelle explained to WCVB in Boston:

“It was silence, then the pilot reported, ‘I have some thing embarrassing to inform you fellas — there is nobody to get you off the flight.’ They experienced no staff available to get us off the airplane. The state law enforcement ended up there and they were likely to have to evacuate us, but then they received a maintain of a JetBlue supervisor and experienced to have him push from his home to the airport to allow us off the airplane.”

JetBlue sympathized with their customers’ frustrations and promised to guarantee that this does not take place yet again. The airline also said it is investigating the incident with its husband or wife that operates the floor crew in Worcester. I would not be surprised if this was all brought about by staff shortage. Airways have been working with staff shortages for the entirety of the pandemic, which sparked mass delays and cancellations under the slightest amount of tension.