United Airlines has reached a settlement in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC that alleged one of its managers directed racial slurs and threats at a Mongolian American employee working in Denver catering.
A Jewish passenger was removed from a flight, that based on video appears to be on JetBlue. Although it’s identified on social media as American Airlines. There are very few American Airlines narrowbody aircraft with seat back video screens, and that system looks like JetBlue’s rather than American’s.
According to a social media account the passenger’s removal was prompted by their “comments regarding Gaza.”
Formal charges have been filed by one of the American Airlines flight attendant base Presidents against their union President, Julie Hedrick.
These “Article VII Charges” allege ‘willful violation’ of the union’s constitution including improper use of union funds for personal enrichment.
A Delta Air Lines passenger that took a regional jet flight on board an aircraft that appears to have been flying around without any working lavatories shared their experience with me.
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A parent in this situation should be the most sympathetic passenger imaginable – but not when she drops the f-word a second time, and calls the agent something else too. And that’s before even bringing the employee’s race into it through use of an epithet sometimes used to describe African Americans.
American Airlines flight attendants apparently have been leaving passengers on board aircraft. Everyone leaves the plane, and the sleeping passenger is still there. Sometimes they’re in a window seat and no one notices. Other times they’re in the lavatory.
The online social media Australian-Filipina Blackman family shared their travels with kids in coach – booking the bulkhead row and letting the kids sleep on the floor for their flight. While they’re mostly known among their millions of followers for cute family content, this has caused some consternation in aviation circles.
United Airlines flies the most seat miles – they fly a lot of widebodies great distances around the world. Delta Air Lines produces the most revenue. They get paid.
American Airlines, though, flies the most passengers. Of course it’s El Paso to Dallas, Charlotte to Savannah and Phoenix to Reno.
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Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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