Question (rhetorical): Your flight on a brand-spanking new Bombardier Q400 departs on-time, but is forced to return to the airport because the cargo door won’t lock and the plane can’t pressurize. You’re on the ground for over an hour, but they re-board you with what should be enough time to make your connection. Everybody’s buckled, no need to do the pre-flight rigamarole, so we taxi up to the runway. The teenage girl behind you with the window seat says to her mom, “um, should the engine (turboprop) be leaking like that?” The guy in the window seat next to you, with his whole family in the row ahead, looks at you and says, “do you think we should call the stewardess?” In the split-second it takes to process all known information you say, “hell yeah! Fluid leaks on a plane are never a good thing.” By the time you get back to the gate the damn thing is smoking and spitting like a grumpy dragon. “Hydraulic leak,” reports the pilot. Everybody off. Here’s the question. (Thanks for hanging on…) If the mechanic reports, after 4 hours of waiting, that the plane is “fixed”, do you fly on that plane? Or do you ask to be rebooked on a different plane even if it doesn’t depart until the next day?
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Question (rhetorical): Your flight on a brand-spanking new Bombardier Q400 departs on-time, but is forced to return to the airport because the cargo door won’t lock and the plane can’t pressurize. You’re on the ground for over an hour, but they re-board you with what should be enough time to make your connection.

Everybody’s buckled, no need to do the pre-flight rigamarole, so we taxi up to the runway. The teenage girl behind you with the window seat says to her mom, “um, should the engine (turboprop) be leaking like that?”

The guy in the window seat next to you, with his whole family in the row ahead, looks at you and says, “do you think we should call the stewardess?”

In the split-second it takes to process all known information you say, “hell yeah! Fluid leaks on a plane are never a good thing.” By the time you get back to the gate the damn thing is smoking and spitting like a grumpy dragon. “Hydraulic leak,” reports the pilot. Everybody off.

Here’s the question. (Thanks for hanging on…) If the mechanic reports, after 4 hours of waiting, that the plane is “fixed”, do you fly on that plane? Or do you ask to be rebooked on a different plane even if it doesn’t depart until the next day?