A few years ago my son & I traveled alone to Oregon from San Diego. We were stuck for hours in Phoenix, AZ on the tarmac where it was over 105 degrees--& the air conditioning in the plane was broken. Ironically, with the air conditioning broken, we were not allowed to take off, however, they couldn't get us back to the terminal. After a few hours we returned, they fixed the plane & got us back on. They assured us they realized it was HOT but that as soon as we got into the air, it would cool down. Over 30 minutes later the pilot came on the intercom to tell us that sadly, since we'd gone back to the terminal, the "computer" had bumped our plane off the schedule to take off, so we had to "wait our turn." We sat there another 90 minutes or … [Read more...]