Last month Besnik Ismajlaj, a 53-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, was arrested at Chicago O’Hare for carrying a loaded gun through a TSA checkpoint and boarding a United Airlines flight. Newly released body cam footage shows the TSA failure that let him board his flight armed.
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Nelson is clearly incorrect in her claim that the union protest was ‘protected,’ and put her members in jeopardy. Airline employees do not have an open-ended right to storm a private corporate event.
On Wednesday, just after noon, Dallas-Fort Worth airport faced a partial ground stop due to a security issue on American Airlines flight 2484 heading to New York LaGuardia.
Airport police boarded the aircraft. The Boeing 737-800 was parked away from terminal buildings and surrounded by multiple airport police vehicles and emergency responders.
Protesting United Airlines flight attendants are now under investigation, and have been removed from flying duties. Suspending the crewmembers who disrupted United’s big media event was probably inevitable.
A United Airlines passenger, being dubbed a ‘Karen’, brought her dog to the galley of a Boeing 787. When a flight attendant reprimanded her – the dog can’t be in the food prep area – the woman defended the choice to bring him there: “He needs to do potty!”
The passenger felt that because the dog was wearing a diaper that made it o.k. to walk him through the aircraft, including the galley. And she got stern with the crewmember: “I don’t appreciate you taking that tone with me.”
With American Airlines adding back a second drink service in economy on longer domestic flights, and adding back pre-meal beverage service for international premium destination flights departing before 9:01 p.m. local time, their flight attendants union is up in arms – they want more cabin crew on flights to do the service.
State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce gives a guided tour of the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, an informercial from the official government account on Twitter. Bruce accompanied President Trump on his four-day visit to the Middle East.
The Ritz-Carlton Riyadh was used as a government torture site and Marriott never spoke up about its brand being used this way.
I’m very much rooting for the program because competition is a good thing. Since Rove doesn’t have a unique niche (like rent) they have to offer outsized value to convince you to use their platform. And that can only be good for travelers across the board.
An American Airlines passenger went online to blast the carrier, “They made me cover my butt because my shorts were too short!”
She says she was told by the gate agent that the flight crew saw her outfit and “said that [she] needed to change” in order to “cover my butt.”
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