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Bad weather, busy backed up airports, perhaps confusion reigns. And today a China Southern and a Kuwait Airways 777 hit with tails striking each other.
A woman shared her experience this week on Reddit in a post that’s garnered over 5000 comments and 130,000 ‘up votes’.
She was flying from New York to DC in what looks to me to be either an Embraer ERJ-140 or 145. With plenty of cancellations due to weather, lots of passengers being re-accommodated, the plane was expected to be empty.
WestJet flight WS2425 was sitting stationary on the tarmac in Toronto after arriving from Cancun last night when it was hit by a Sunwing plane pushing back from its gate at around 6 p.m. Eastern.
Yesterday’s United Airlines Chicago – Hong Kong flight UA895 had to divert to Anchorage because a passenger kept “smearing feces everywhere” according to airport police.
He also took off his shirt and tried to stuff it in the toilet.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
A drunk man went on a tirade on a jetBlue flight departing Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
Before things really heat up you see passengers walking in the aisle, dealing with luggage in the overhead bin, and hear the flight attendant call button pressed repeatedly. A flight attendant announces that “if you continue to press the call button, you’re gonna be staying here in Santo Domingo. If yo continue to press it playing games you will be staying here in Santo Domingo.”
That’s when the passenger loses it.
The male pilot and female co-pilot of Jet Airways flight 9W 119 from London to Mumbai got into a fight on New Years Day. He slapped her. She reportedly left the cockpit ‘sobbing’. He repeatedly called crew asking them to send her back. And then things got worse.
On New Years Day Ryanair flight FR8164 from London Stansted to Malaga was delayed about an hour on departure. After reaching Spain the plane was further delayed half an hour on the tarmac. And an impatient passenger decided “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”
Cathay Pacific is reportedly cancelling its planned roll out of ‘dine on demand’ in business class and introducing ‘buy on board’ meals on some shorter economy flights in place of complimentary food.
Flight crew hated having to offer dine on demand, and charging for food in economy means big cost savings boarding far fewer meals on flights like Hong Kong – Manila and overnight flights to North Asia.
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