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People can t get to their jobs. they can t get a cab or a car. the trains are so delayed, they can t get on them. so you have all these people in need of workers to get off the plane, you have to get your bags, take your bags to customs and customs has to get you through. there s a whole process. if you don t have people to get you to the gate or run your jetway to get you off, you will be stuck. if your plane that s trying to get to gate two already has a plane in gate two and it s not leaving, you re sitting there waiting for that plane that was before you to get out of the way or move you to a new gate. we know most of the gates are completely full. there you go. this is what you have. jfk, 77 flights in bound right now. that s pretty good, a pretty good number. not what it could or should be, but pretty good. laguardia, not quite so good, only 47 planes inbound to you. newark, 62. now, in contrast, let s go to atlanta. 153 planes inbound to atlanta. that s kind of what the number ....
A mistake by landing there when no gate was prepared? no. no one said there was a mistake made. the pilot was quiet. certainly no one admitted to making any mistakes. cathay pacific says it will try to make it right. in your mind, what can make it right? oh, well, not much can make it right now. sitting on your backside on the plane, you can t turn back time. at the moment, we re in another line, we had to go to another terminal to try to find our bags. no one knows where our bags are. there s no one from cathay pacific here with regards to that. when you left vancouver and you say the plane was delayed, did you have the expectation that in fact just very quickly that the plane was going to land, or was there a question at the time? when we got on the plane we knew the plane was going to land. we didn t realize there would be such a delay taking off. ....
Get off that plane? reporter: that s right. i actually talked to many passengers who were in that similar situation, not only were they delayed getting into jfk, but once they did get here, they were sitting on the tarmac for hours and hours. many of them with no food or very little water, and once they did get released and into the gate, they now have been waiting and waiting and waiting for their baggage. that s been the biggest problem. i m actually here with one of those passengers who has been waiting probably six, seven hours now for his bags or any information about his bags. his name is donald nicholson. he was on an air france flight this morning. here you go. first of all, sir, what was it like? people must have been to stay ....
They landed at approximately 2:15 in the morning and they were released at the gate at about 1:00 p.m. so almost 12 hours of sitting on the tarmac. i will let you speak to vincent. he can describe his ordeal. mr. butcher, thank you so much for joining us. what was it like? it had to have been excruciating. it wasn t fun for the children sitting there. once we arrived, to have to sit there for 12 hours wasn t the best. was there food, was there water? did you have enough blankets? blankets and that were fine. water was fine. there was plenty of that. food was pretty scarce. in the end there was just peanuts and juice the kids were picking on. there were no meals or anything like that. how angry or upset was the pilot and the flight attendants? did they say that they had made ....
That flight spoke to cnn after finally setting foot in the terminal. it was terrible. basically what happened, when you were running out of food and water, the pilot came on to say he was going to be arguing with the folks at the airport. to at least let the police come on board. i guess he lost that flight, nobody came on. and we moved up to a gate, spent another couple of hours at the gate, thinking we were going to come off and never did. apparently what happened the customs folks went home at 1:00 a.m. everybody had to sit out there in the snow, all night. we ve since gotten a statement from customs and border protection. officials tell cnn, quote, at no point were customs officials sent home overnight from jfk. said the airport was ample staffed even in the wee hours. it s the airlines responsibility to keep customs ....