Airline refuses to allow engineering students & prof on plane with their robot, headed for a national competition..

[theGlove]

you guys are all right. they should have camped there 1 day ahead of time just to be on the safe side. Let's just accept the horrible wait time imposed on the flying public instead of trying to get the airlines/security to be more effecient.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Originally posted by: theGlove
you guys are all right. they should have camped there 1 day ahead of time just to be on the safe side. Let's just accept the horrible wait time imposed on the flying public instead of trying to get the airlines/security to be more effecient.

Think about it. 3 hours is not unreasonable. The airline calls HQ, gets a decision, and acts on it. That takes maybe an hour, hour and a half. The students/teacher then spend another hour and a half waiting for the plane. Not a big deal. I've been stuck at airports for well over 9 hours. There is stuff to do to keep yourself occupied.
They could always study.....

 

[PunDogg]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
score one for the terrorists.

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Certain items like batteries have always been banned on airplanes, even pre 9/11. It's just some ignorant people at NW airlink.

batteries?? i take them on the plan everytime for my CD player, tehy hav never said anything about that

Dogg

 

[shuan24]

Originally posted by: theGlove
you guys are all right. they should have camped there 1 day ahead of time just to be on the safe side. Let's just accept the horrible wait time imposed on the flying public instead of trying to get the airlines/security to be more effecient.

that is the dumbest response so far. The airline spokesman had said all they needed to do is arrive 45min earlier than they had. Is that too much to ask?

"One of the things we want to learn from this is, how do we make sure this never happens again?" Manalan said. "We had teams from all over the U.S., and countries like Singapore, South Korea, Israel and Canada, and they all flew to the contest with their robots without any problems."

HAHAHHAHAHA. They can blame themselves. Maybe it's because the other countries showed up an 1 and 45 min before their flight, opposed to only an hour? Who are they trying to blame here? Idiots.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: theGlove
you guys are all right. they should have camped there 1 day ahead of time just to be on the safe side. Let's just accept the horrible wait time imposed on the flying public instead of trying to get the airlines/security to be more effecient.

How about instead of one day early, they just arrived 1h 45m early?

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
score one for the terrorists.

 

[nitsuj3580]

Originally posted by: BigJ
The college students arrived slightly more than an hour before the flight was scheduled to depart.

This shouldn't even be a news story. The college and professor are clearly at fault. Who arrives only an hour before a flight when they know something serious has to be done like an inspection? An hour is by no means early for a flight, especially in this situation.

my thoughts exactly after I read the article

 

[BigToque]

I arrive 2 hours early for international, and 1 hour for domestic (this is when I'm not lugging robots around though).

These people should have arrived at least 2 hours early. (well apparently they needed 1:45 🙂)

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
In other news, lighters are now banned on flights but at least you can carry up to 4 matchbooks!

Are you serious? Link?

 

[Yossarian451]

Originally posted by: PunDogg

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
score one for the terrorists.

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Certain items like batteries have always been banned on airplanes, even pre 9/11. It's just some ignorant people at NW airlink.

batteries?? i take them on the plan everytime for my CD player, tehy hav never said anything about that

Dogg

I belive they are talking about bateries like the lead acid type and others that react adversly to pressure changes.

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: alent1234
I thought the standard now is 2 hours before a domestic flight and longer for international

It mostly depends on the airport and time of day. Never had a problem at Columbus, OH even when I check in 30min before for an international connection since I fly United and the terminal 2 there only has about 8 gates. Now San Fransico at 10am, I wouldn't risk with anything less than 2hrs for an international flight.