If you get off the plane you will be arrested...

[justatransgirl]

OK - if anyone wonders why I'm going to get my OWN airplane... this is just one reason why...

LOL,
TS Jamie :-)

CNN - Areomexico 32 hour flight from Mexico City to Seattle

Plane is diverted to Portland due to weather.

Authorities hold plane on tarmac for 4 hours because of a lack of Customs agents.

Passengers revolt - police threaten to arrest anyone who tries to get off the plane.

Plane flies BACK to Mexico City

Passengers wait another 10 hours for another plane to Seattle

Arriving 32 hours after starting on a 6 hour flight.

AND, they lost all the luggage...

[Alyssa87]

I flew that airline this summer. it is pretty ghetto.

[barefootjoe69]

They need to make laws to stop this practice. They are really holding you against your will, which is a crime everywhere else.

[Willie Escalade]

This is why I drive all the time...if it's within driving distance. Plus, I'd spend the extra money to fly a better airline.

[thx1138]

Another instance: http://www.boingboing.net:80/2009/01/25/australian-family-ca.html

[bigtimer]

I flew that airline this summer. it is pretty ghetto.

im a frequently flyer but now i pay extra to fly air taxi's whenever possible. if anyone wants more information about this kind of service just let me know.

i also have alot of experience with many airlines so you dont have to go through that kind of ordeal.

[phobun]

This sounds like conspiracy fodder. How soon before the nutjobs come out with their own horror stories.

El Nino believes Ron Paul and Alex Jones' drivel about a N.W.O. run North American Union and yet whines about a powerful government tormenting private people with this sort of heavyhandedness while complaining about the lack of border enforcement.

[Felicia Katt]

its 2400 miles from Mexico City to Seattle. At the 140 mph cruising speed in the average small private plane, the flight time alone is 18 hours. The cruising range is only 600 miles, so you would have to land and refuel 3 times, adding 3 hours to the total travel time. FAA rules only allow a pilot to fly 8 hours in every 24 so the real time is 3 full days.

Figure on 9 gallons an hour to go that fast, so you are looking at 160 gallons. Aviation gas is around 4 bucks a gallon, so that means nearly 650.00 bucks, just for fuel costs. Add in landing and lodging and food and miscellany for three days and nites and you are looking at another 2-300 dollars at a minimum

so 18 hours in the air, 3 days travel time (more than twice as long as the flight took in the news story) and close to 1000.00 in expenses. at a minimum . A commercial flight is usually 6 hours and you can get a ticket for less than 300.00

Its great that you are taking flying lessons, but please, spare the spam excuses to brag about it.

And no one was wondering LOL

FK

[2009AD]

Another instance: http://www.boingboing.net:80/2009/01/25/australian-family-ca.html

Talk bout cruel and unusal treatment.... what a horrible way to treat a man whose father is dying....


Mercy dash family denied entry to US

Rachel Browne
January 25, 2009

AN AUSTRALIAN family on a mercy dash to a dying relative in the United States were detained without food or water before being sent to a detention centre and forced to spend the night with criminal suspects. Their ordeal finished with them being deported.

Mr Fazle Rabbi, his wife, Rokeya, and their two sons, Rakin, 14, and Raiyan, 8, left Sydney on Tuesday, January 13 to visit Mr Rabbi's ailing 84-year-old father in Los Angeles.

However, instead of the emotional reunion they expected, the family was detained at Los Angeles International Airport by US Customs and Border Protection officers.

Over the next 24 hours, officers questioned the Thornleigh taxi driver and his aged-care worker wife, patted them down and searched their luggage before sending them to a detention centre in a caged van. They were then taken to a hotel with other detainees at 2.30am to sleep with armed guards by their bedside before being woken at 4.30am and put on a flight back to Sydney.

Despite being Australian citizens and having valid visas to enter the US, the family members claim they were singled out because of their cultural background, having immigrated from Bangladesh four years ago.

"They treated us like terrorists," Mr Rabbi said. "We are Australian citizens. Why did they have to keep us in a detention centre? Why did they have to lock up my kids?"

Mr Rabbi says that when he explained he was in the US to visit his father, the officers threatened him.

Despite producing the family's $6400 return tickets, dated February 5, he says the officers accused him of attempting to illegally stay in the US.

"They were very angry," he said.

"They threatened us and they said if you keep talking like that you'll be in big, big trouble."

The family, tired and hungry after their 18-hour flight from Sydney to Los Angeles via Melbourne, were given minimal food and drink during their time at the airport.

"We were given no food, apart from a few biscuits," Mr Rabbi said.

A request to meet Mr Rabbi's father, whom he has not seen for three years, was also denied.

"I told them that this is probably the last time I can see him before he dies," he said. "They did not listen to me. They said, 'You must go back to your country.' "

A spokeswoman for the US consulate-general in Sydney said US Customs and Border Protection authorities reserved the right to refuse entry to the US.

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/01/24/1232471656805.html