What If This Happened in Your City?Passengers board a pla...

What If This Happened in Your City?

Passengers board a plane and are ready to depart but are then told the flight is cancelled due to bad weather. The cabin door is opened and everyone is instructed to de-board the plane. 

But outside the sky is clear and the day is beautiful. 
Some passengers call relatives and hear reports of beautiful weather in the destination city.  Passengers begin to grumble and ask the obvious question -- why cancel the flight when the weather is perfect in both places?  The only answer they get is a repeated instruction to get off the airplane because the flight has been cancelled. Passengers begin boo-ing and making catcalls. The cabin crew demands everyone leave the aircraft immediately but no one budges. It becomes clear - all of the passengers are refusing to get off the airplane. They demand the flight proceed as originally scheduled.

If this happened in your city, what do you suspect would happen next?
I will not speculate, even though I could.
I can only tell you what happened on July 22nd in Ecuador's capital city when this exact scenario played out --- 
--- the airline gave in, closed the cabin door, and reinstated the flight as originally planned.
Here's a photo of that flight upon arrival at its "bad weather" destination in Cuenca.


If this were your city, what would happen next to those passengers?
I will not speculate, even though I could.
I can only tell you what happened in Cuenca --
the passengers disembarked and went about their day;
some of them took the time to go to airport administration to register a formal complaint against the airline. 
The people felt empowered to stand firm for what they believed in.
And the government, airport, and airline authorities were willing to engage the people in a manner that respected the people's voice and had the wisdom to de-escalate to a resolution.

There were no SWAT teams in sight.
No elevated threat levels.
No airport lock downs.
No sensationalized media reports that nearby neighborhoods must "shelter in place."
No shock grenades.
No pepper spray.
No zip-ties of hands and feet.
No indictments for federal felony crimes.