Delta passengers skip past immigration after airline gaffe

[700UW]

Some passengers on a Delta London to New York flight Monday night never went through immigration or customs – because their jet landed in the wrong place in a gaffe that raised security fears.
 

http://nypost.com/2014/02/25/delta-passengers-skip-past-immigration-after-airline-gaffe/
 
On a side note, 54 people on a LHR-JFK flight is a pretty bad load factor for a B764, thats about 22%.

 

[737823]

Good for non-revs.

Josh

 

[robbedagain]

bad bad for delta    absolutely no way wt can defend that    id imagine some punishment action of sorts to come as a result of that   big time violation  no excuse

 

[eolesen]

It's a good thing the loads were as light as they were --- CBP's fine for allowing this to happen is ~$10K per head.

Depending whether or not CBP counts those who they caught in the baggage claim, that could be upward of $500K DL will have a hard time arguing their way out of, since there really were no mitigating circumstances and nobody else to blame it on.

 

[does this plane go to paris]

54 pax on a 767 on what many claim to be the highest yeilding international city pair?  20% range load factor.  I'm sure that out of those 54 there had to be some happy NRSA's among them, bring the LF down even further.  I hope that WT doesn't work at JFK and if he does, wasn't at work.  (sorry, counld'nt resist.)

 

[AdAstraPerAspera]

bad bad for delta    absolutely no way wt can defend that 

 
Are you referring to the embarrassment of mistakenly allowing uncleared international passengers into the general terminal area, or the embarrassment of operating a 767-400 on one of the world's most popular and profitable routes with such a sad load factor?

 

[robbedagain]

referring to the embarrassment that delta parked an intl flight at a domestic terminal and pax got off   and bypassed customs     that's got to be a hell of a fine against delta for that  
 
I am actually surprised that a 764 only had 54 pax on board    how many pax does it hold

 

[phllax]

They hold 246 in a 40/28/178 configuration. Considering it is the 15th of 20 scheduled flights between LHR and JFK, arrives in too late for connections, and was a Tuesday in February, I would think the load was about normal.

Terminal 4 is an international terminal except some of the new Delta gates. Apparently in this instance the flight arrived early, and chocked in just after someone else pushed, and the agent didn't have a chance to reset to international arrival from departure.

 

[robbedagain]

thanks phllax  but I would think that the ramp tower  if there is one would have told the crew to go to the intl terminal     as I have heard they went to the domestic portion??

 

[Kev3188]

... and the agent didn't have a chance to reset to international arrival from departure.

What all does "resetting" entail?
 
 

thanks phllax  but I would think that the ramp tower  if there is one...

There is.

 

[robbedagain]

kev  is the ramp tower delta ramp tower or how does it work there  

 

[Kev3188]

DL staffs it's own ramp tower at JFK (and LGA, fwiw)...

 

[737823]

Does BOS have a tower?

Josh

 

[Kev3188]

I don't think so...

Off the top of my head, we have them in:

ATL
DTW
MSP
LAX
CVG
MEM
SLC
JFK
LAX


I may have missed one or two...

 

[robbedagain]

DFW may be  may be MCO ?