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Originally Posted by Jetliner
The problem is this is a much more complex problem than what it seems, and obviously Kate Hanni doesn't understand even a fraction of the whole big picture.
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I myself don't understand the whole picture when it comes to how flights leave and land. But I thought you had been referring earlier to losing your spot because now you have to get back in line for take off. I was not suggesting that you delay the flights ready to land. In any case these flights in the air will land whether the aircraft went back to the gate after 3 hours or whether it remained on the tarmac.
The Federal regulation that may be necessary would be for ATC to permit this delayed aircraft back into the conga line for take off. I believe it is not done at the moment and I admit I don't know how it may work. But I believe that the runways may be designed to permit an aircraft that has this kind of priority to get to the runway for take off before those in line.
If I was a law maker I would surely want to set up a technical sub-committee to report of the feasibility on whether an aircraft that lost its position because of this return to the gate, can regain its priority for take off. It is idle to suggest that this is trying to regulate what God does with the weather