Airlines propose long list of rules to kill or revise as part of Trump deregulation initiative

LOS ANGELES - Nearly an hour after her American Airlines flight was scheduled to leave Honolulu International Airport, passenger Lisa Hill heard the pilot announce that a maintenance problem would delay the takeoff.

The pilot gave fliers the option of getting off the plane but Hill, who was flying to Boston after visiting her son, decided to remain seated, hoping to be in the air shortly.

Three more hours passed before the flight last November was canceled.

"For four hours I sat on that plane," said Hill, the co-owner of a house cleaning business. "When the pilot finally said we should deboard, it was like a Black Friday sale at Macy's. Everyone rushed off."

Now, the Trump administration may roll back a rule that requires airlines to give passengers such as Hill the option of getting off a flight that is delayed too long on an airport tarmac. And that's not the only regulation that might be weakened or