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“You Paid For The Seat, Not The Communal AC”: Delta Passenger Closes Stranger’s Vent Four Times, Then Demands Hot Water To Warm Up

by Gary Leff on June 2, 2025

Jun 02 2025

Most U.S. airlines have air vents above the seat. You can turn them on if you’re hot, and turn them off if you don’t want to be blown on. But who controls the vent? Does each passenger have dominion over the one above their seat – or is it a common utility, and you have to accommodate the preferences of everyone around you? Conflict on a plane can take place over the seemingly simplest of things, as one Delta Air Lines passenger learned. Currently on a flight head westbound. I am on the right side of a 3 passenger row. The person sitting in the middle has now 3 times closed my AC vent either while “adjusting” their own vent or when I stood up to go to the bathroom. The vent is pointed towards…

“Move Your Arm, Miss Piggy!” Boy Sneers At Overweight Passenger—She Slams His Head Into Window; Allegiant Jet Turns Back

by Gary Leff on May 31, 2025

May 31 2025

This past Monday a Hagerstown, Maryland woman flying home on Allegiant Air flight 2884 wound up in police custody at Orlando Sanford Airport after giving a 12 year old passenger a beat down. The boy had taunted the 46-year-old woman, calling her “fat” and “Miss Piggy” and saying she couldn’t fit in her seat.

The two were seatmates. The boy pushed her arm off the shared armrest between them and she “started smacking him.” According to other passengers, she hit him with a clenched fist, clubbed him with a plastic water bottle, and then slammed his head against the window.

My Friend Said It Was OK’: Britney Spears Smoked On JSX Flight, Blamed Vodka, Met By Authorities In Mexico

by Gary Leff on May 25, 2025

May 25 2025

Britney Spears was caught lighting a cigarette during a JSX flight from Los Angeles to Cabo San Lucas on Friday. Authorities met the flight on arrival. She had admittedly been drinking vodka before deciding to smoke onboard.

‘The Queen Likes Them’: Meghan Markle Helps American Airlines Flight Attendant Shut Down Captain’s Insult

by Gary Leff on May 24, 2025

May 24 2025

An American Airlines flight attendant shares her charming interaction with Meghan Markle on what seems to me was probably a New York – Los Angeles flight.

‘That’s Not A Baby, It’s A Doll’—United Airlines Passenger Faked Her Way Into Family Boarding

by Gary Leff on May 23, 2025

May 23 2025

Airlines offer priority boarding to first class passengers and to their elite frequent flyers. They also usually offer it to uniformed military personnel, and passengers with disabilities and to families with small children.

If you want to get on the plane early and don’t want to enlist in the military, I guess just keep having kids? Or pretending to?

‘Even the Smell Of Coffee Could Kill Me’: Passenger Hands Flight Attendant List of Demands—Ordering Bans On Nuts And Smell Of Jet Fuel

by Gary Leff on May 22, 2025

A passenger seated in 4A handed a letter to a flight attendant outlining their travel requirements. They insisted that no coffee be served on board the flight, no nuts, and that they needed to be shielded from perfumes; colognes; scented soap; body lotion; and jet fuel.

American Airlines Passenger Tries To Force His Way Onto Sydney Flight—Then Slams Gate With Luggage In Rage

by Gary Leff on May 20, 2025

May 20 2025

An American Airlines passenger was blocked from flying from Los Angeles to Sydney after he attempted to board before it was his turn and bring too many carry-on bags onto the aircraft. Fellow travelers filmed this escalate.

American Airlines Passenger Slept Through Flight—And Woke Up To Find A Stranger Braided Her Hair

by Gary Leff on May 17, 2025

May 17 2025

One woman woke up on a flight and discovered her hair had been braided and she had no idea who did it: ‘I need you to come forth immediately.’

United Passenger Boards With Loaded Gun, Sits In First Class—Bodycam Shows Police Storm Plane And Yank Him Off

by Gary Leff on May 15, 2025

May 15 2025

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.

‘He Needs To Do Potty!’ United Airlines Karen Walks Dog Through Galley In Diaper—Snaps When Crew Objects to Poo In Food Prep Area

by Gary Leff on May 14, 2025

May 14 2025

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.”