Breastfeeding moms and babies would have had it better, though airline
policy had better change via the Passenger Bill of Rights.  I also wonder
how the breastmilk transporting petition is going.
Judy Ritchie, former flight attendant

http://www.strandedpassengers.blogspot.com/

Three babies were screaming at the top of their lungs for the same lack of
food.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/opinion/01thu4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=sl
ogin

Take the passengers of American Airlines Flight 1348 (Dec 29), whose flight
from San Francisco to Dallas was diverted by bad weather to Austin, Tex.
Obviously, weather is out of human control, and airlines rightly err on the
side of safety rather than haste when it comes to bad weather or mechanical
difficulties. Flying, particularly around the holidays, invariably entails a
risk of delay.
But there is delay, and then there is detention. The passengers on Flight
1348 were trapped on the plane after it landed for another eight hours. They
say there was nothing to eat but a box of pretzels, and the toilets began to
stink. Passengers say they overflowed. The airline says they didn't. The
difference is not worth debating.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16565583/#storyContinued

Passengers say the ordeal ended only after the pilot taxied to a gate
without permission - 15 hours after the flight had boarded.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07009/752402-84.stm

After more than eight hours on the ground, and 12 hours after the plane had
left San Francisco, the captain told passengers he was going to an empty
gate, even though he didn't have permission.

"He said, 'Enough is enough. I should have done this a long time ago,'"
recalls passenger Cindy Welch, who was trying to get home to Missouri.
American won't identify the captain.

Flight 37 from Zurich, Switzerland, to Dallas was diverted to Tulsa, Okla.,
where it sat for 10 hours. Pilots couldn't take off because they reached
federal limits on duty time, American says. Tulsa doesn't have a Customs and
Immigration facility so no one could get off. By the time the plane reached
Dallas, landing at 1:33 a.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration
data, passengers had been on board more 22 hours.

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