The OP is entitled to compensation, act of God or not. There is no excuse for an airline imprisoning passengers on the tarmac even for an hour. You get into an aircraft to fly to your destination, and once they are not flying they need your consent to keep you in the aircraft. Once the pilot is able to say they would be there at least an hour, if there was no gate available, the airline should have sent a bus to bring the passengers to the terminal. If there are passengers who prefer to stay in the aircraft without food and with overflowing toilets, those should stay, but if some passengers want to be let out the airline must return them to the terminal or heavy compensation should follow.
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