ICE agents are now showing up at airport checkpoints, but they are not the same as TSA screeners — ICE agents are law enforcement officers, while TSA checkpoint staff generally are not. That changes your rights.
LaGuardia Controller: “I Messed Up” After Runway Crash Kills Two Air Canada Pilots
An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 arriving from Montreal hit a fire truck that was crossing Runway 4 at LaGuardia shortly after landing around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, causing severe damage to the aircraft’s nose and cockpit. The captain and first officer were killed, multiple passengers and first responders were injured, and controller audio captured the tower urgently trying to stop the truck before impact.
Woman And Child Flew Six Hours In Cockpit Jumpseats — Airline Avoided Paying Overbooking Compensation
A woman and a child reportedly spent a six-hour flight in cockpit jumpseats after an oversold departure prompted the Air France KLM low cost subsidiary to look for volunteers to sit up front instead of in the cabin. The airline says it complied with European safety rules. Paying normal denied boarding compensation seems cheaper than the embarrassment here.
A Stranger Gave A Passenger A Foot Massage In Coach — Kind, Weird, And Still Inappropriate
A passenger flying SAS from Copenhagen to Los Angeles after recent surgery says she wound up getting a 30-minute foot massage from a stranger in coach after an expected empty seat between them disappeared. It is an oddly kind story — three women who did not share a language improvising help for someone in pain — but it also crosses a line that most travelers would not want crossed on a plane.
Bilt Will Process $100 Billion In Housing Payments This Year — The Card Is Just One Entry Point
Bilt says it expects to process more than $100 billion in housing payments this year. The real play is using housing relationships to power a broader payments, merchant, and loyalty network that can make the card just one piece of a much larger business.
Airports Keep Serving The One Food You Should Never Eat Before Boarding A Plane — Chili
There is one food airports should probably never be serving right before passengers board a plane, and somehow it keeps spreading: chili. Beans, sulfur, and changes in cabin pressure are already a bad combination at 30,000 feet, which makes airport chili counters and giant lounge bowls feel less like comfort food and more like a threat to everyone trapped in the cabin.
JetBlue Passenger Sues After Flight Attendants Gave Her Dry Ice For A Swollen Leg — It Burned Her Skin
A JetBlue passenger says flight attendants on a Paris – New York flight gave her dry ice to treat swelling in her leg, and that the extreme cold burned her skin badly enough to trigger a lawsuit.This is exactly the kind of onboard accident the Montreal Convention is designed to cover.
One Overheated Circuit Board Grounded 5 D.C.-Area Airports — After FAA Dropped Maintenance On Old Systems
A single overheated circuit board was enough to ground flights across five Washington-area airports, forcing controllers to evacuate Potomac TRACON and exposing just how fragile the FAA’s aging infrastructure has become. The deeper problem, though, is not one smoking board — it is an air traffic control system where routine maintenance on old equipment was reportedly allowed to slide, making breakdowns like this far more likely.
I’m Not Famous — Except In Airport Lounges
I’m not famous in any normal sense, but I have managed to achieve a very specific kind of travel notoriety: people recognizing me in airport lounges, hotel breakfast rooms, and even lounge restrooms. If you do spot me on the road, saying hello is always welcome, just maybe not at the urinal.
United Added Doors To Its New Business Class Suites — Then Locked Them Shut [Roundup]
United rolled out new business class suites on its latest Boeing 787-9s, but the doors still have to stay locked because the seats are not fully certified yet. Also Bilt is refunding erroneous foreign transaction fees, Trump wants ICE to backfill TSA screeners, GHA Discovery paused points expiration through September 30, the infamous Asiana 214 fake pilot-name prank is back in circulation, and Spirit’s “new vehicle” takes transportation in a very different direction.











