Originally Posted by
seminolepilot
I've been fortunate to never have this happen, but If the door opens the pax would be getting off until they're ready for us to go again. We, nor the F/A's shouldn't have to babysit pax just because they want to get around the DOT 3 rule.
This is what they had us do this past Sunday at JFK. Had we actually gotten pushed back, I would've continued as planned once the conditions fell below FZRA (which it did not too long after). However, at the gate with no push crew to be found, we complied and opened up the door.
When they told me that the plan was to sit there with the door open indefinitely, I said no, we're going to deplane. They actually put up a little bit of a fight saying "ops wants everyone to remain on board." I said no, they're getting off, made the announcement to the pax myself saying I was going to have them deplane, and it was done.