U.S. airlines will have to deplane passengers if they are kept waiting on the tarmac for three hours under new federal rules, The Associated Press reported today, citing the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The new rules, which will go into effect in 120 days, will require airlines to give passengers food and water after two hours of waiting on the tarmac and to keep the toilets operating.
In the first six months of 2009, at least 613 planes were kept waiting on the tarmac for more than three hours, the AP reported.
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