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Video: Three-hour tarmac ordeal turns into pizza party
After severe weather forced an Atlanta-bound Delta flight to divert to Knoxville, Tenn., on Monday night, the ensuing three-hour tarmac wait turned into a pizza party when airport employees arranged for pies to be delivered to the waiting passengers, escorted by a police car. (www.nbcnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Why does the media insist upon so much sensationalism? The original flight, DAL2101 an A320, did not "circle Hartsfield-Jackson for hours" as the report says. Instead, it had flown for +/- 2hr 43min (normally about 2-1/2 hr flight) when it was diverted to KTYS due to storms at KATL. At KTYS it did sit on the apron (not the runway) for 3+ hours. KTYS doesn't usually accommodate an A320-sized plane at the gate. The continuing flight to KATL was 39 minutes, arriving about 4 hours late. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL2101/history/20130318/2000Z/KBOS/KATL
Actually when the A320 equipment is "scheduled" to arrive in TYS they can accommodate it and it will park at the gate. They probably had many other diverts at the station like they always do when the WX takes a turn for the worst in ATL, but they will park it at a gate pending gate availabilty.
Pretty cheap PR. Only the dumbest pax would be upset at waiting out severe storms.
AND, that is not pizza, once you get south of around Woodbridge NJ, that stuff is just dough!!!
That's a fact!
U live up this way???
No, Kentucky. But raised in Chicago. Pizza stops in northern Illinois. No real pizza around Kpah.