The American Airlines passengers spent more than half a day on an airplane – only to meet in Texas instead of Tokyo.
Monday flight 167 took off from New York JFK airport around 11 a.m. he.
Seven hours after the start of the trip, the Boeing 787 went on the Pacific Ocean – about 900 miles from the Côte Ouest Canada, according to Flightradar24 data.
He then traveled for another five hours, crossing half of the United States to land at Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport shortly after 10 pm local time.
The trip of about 12 hours was only about an hour of the average flight time from New York to Tokyo.
A Reddit user who said he was on the flight said that there was no meal service on board, “so we spent 14 hours with only dried peas like a snack.”
A spokesperson for the airline told Business Insider that the flight had been diverted due to “a maintenance problem”.
“We never want to disrupt the travel plans of our customers, and we are sorry for any drawback that it could have caused,” they added.
The passengers were installed in hotels during the night before the flight left the next day.
Although spending hours on a diverted flight can be frustrating for passengers is generally an easier alternative to the airline than to land at the nearest airport.
For example, the flight has passed in front of Seattle and Denver – but Dallas is the main center of American. Landing there has probably facilitated the responsiveness of passengers, finding a new crew and repairing any problem with the plane.
Diverted flights can also be expensive for airlines, with training effects on their schedules. Flighttradar24 data show that Tokyo’s return flight to New York was canceled on Tuesday, as is a Dallas flight to Philadelphia planned for the same plane.
The 12 -hour passenger test is among the longest diversions of this year.
In February, an American Airlines from New York in Delhi landed in Rome after 3 p.m., and had to be escorted by Italian fighter planes due to a bomb threat.
Last month, an Air India flight returned to Chicago after most of its bathrooms stopped working, which resulted in a nine -hour flight to nowhere.
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