The read link to this story is below. Here’s the gist. American Airlines is under fire from “Friends of the Earth” for flying a Boeing 777 from Chicago to London with only five passengers on it. Earlier in the day, AA had to cancel one of it’s regularly scheduled flights from Chicago to London, which was sold out. They had to find suitable accommodations for each of those passengers on other flights throughout the day. There were able to successfully find spots for all passengers on other airlines, except for five. The story doesn’t mention how they got a plane to be empty but I’m going to say that it’s safe to assume that the plane these people were on was the one originally scheduled to make the trip from Chicago to London. AA decided to fly these passengers to London and now they are being accused of being obscenely wasteful.
Does this group not realize how the airline industry functions? Without this plane making the trip to London, all the passengers scheduled to take this plane back to Chicago would have been stranded at Heathrow. How would that help anyone? You know if any of them were planning on making that flight, they’d be pissed if it were cancelled. Airlines deadhead planes to various airports all the time carrying only the flight crew. It’s necessary for everything to function smoothly. A waste? Sure… but don’t you want to get home from your vacation or business trip on time?
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