Stuck on a plane on tarmac. What should they do?

[Thousandthingstosay]

On a Ryanair flight. It's been delayed two hours. We've boarded and sitting on the plane and just been told we'll be stuck on the tarmac for another hour.

Are Ryanair obliged to give passengers a drink etc? Or do anything?

It's a short haul flight from Europe to UK

We had this last week with Tui.

They brought water round for everyone.

Where are you travelling? We were stuck because of air traffic strikes in Marseilles, we couldn't fly over it. So it wasn't the airlines fault.

We flew out with easyJet last week, due back on Thursday, and emailed in advance to say no food or drink expected to be on the plane. Short delay on the way out and good chance of one on the way back.

I was impressed Gatwick now has water bottle refill stations so you can fill up your bottles before you get on the plane. Like the OP a cup of tea always makes me happy!

Ah got the tea shirt on that one, albeit in Bermuda.

Somebody will ask why? so here goes:

Aircraft comes in from a long sector at altitude with fuel that has got very cold, well sub-zero, remaining in the wing tanks...

If there's a lot of fuel left in the tanks it is in contact with the surface of top of the wing and that in turn gets very cold on the outside.....

During the turn around at somewhere like Bermuda or Dominican Republic you then get nice very moist tropical air coming into contact with the now very cold wing surface...and bingo, a layer of ice forms on the top of the wing and that's a "no go".

Very embarrassing and not much you can do about it other than wait.

EasyJet gave out free bottles of water when it happened to us in February

That's very wise pilot.

@notimagain Thanks for confirming that our stoicism in remaining strapped in and ready to go at a moment's notice was worth it!

And for the explanation of icy wings in the Caribbean.