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Uncle Murda and Tony Yayo found themselves on a Delta flight from San Francisco to New York JFK with Ja Rule. They’re sworn enemies for more than two decades. And they were thrown together inside a plane.
When a passenger broke down in tears, terrified she’d miss her connecting flight to China, a United Airlines flight attendant paused snack service, knelt in the aisle, and comforted her in a powerful moment of compassion—captured in a viral video that’s going around for all the right reasons.
A United Airlines passenger headed from Los Angeles to Nicaragua suddenly found himself landing in Tokyo instead—after no one noticed he had boarded the wrong flight. Here’s how it happened, and why it’s not as rare as you’d think.
A Qatar Airways passenger on a long-haul flight snapped after the person in front of her reclined, and instead of asking politely or calling crew she escalated: she put her feet on the seatback headrest, jostled the seat, and even clapped her sneakers over the other passenger’s head. Multiple people told her to stop, but she refused until a flight attendant finally stepped in and ordered her to put her feet down.
A United Airlines first class passenger and his hearing impaired wife were threatened with removal from their flight after a conflict with an off duty crewmember. Video from the cabin shows the man in his seat, upset but controlled, explaining that the employee snapped at his wife because she “didn’t hear” and “wasn’t listening.”
A group of passengers conducted an in-cabin worship session on a British Airways flight from London to Jamaica. They were singing and chanting, and being lead in prayer from the aisle – for what was reportedly nearly 3 hours. One passenger on board says it began about an hour into the flight and ran for 150 minutes. The preacher was eventually told to sit when the seatbelt sign came on.
A bald eagle was set to fly Delta Air Lines from San Francisco to Atlanta on Tuesday. It was escorted by a professional falconer, who had the eagle out in the aisle while passengers filmed and took selfies with it.
A passenger stripped down and rampaged through the cabin on a Nha Trang–Bangkok flight, threatening flight attendants and even trying to get an aircraft door opened mid-flight. The plane made an emergency landing at Bangkok Don Mueang — and once on the ground, he demanded the door be opened anyway, then jumped onto the tarmac before stairs were in place and was arrested.
A couple apparently booked in economy sat themselves in Turkish Airlines business class, got caught during boarding, refused to move, and—shockingly—ended up being allowed to stay put rather than further delaying the flight. The catch came after takeoff: flight attendants served everyone else in business class while pointedly refusing to give the self-upgraders food and drinks, turning their “win” into a very public lesson in how far you can push it.
Witney Carson says that on a Delta Sydney–Los Angeles flight, a flight attendant repeatedly shushed her 2-year-old son after a passenger up front complained they were trying to rest. Carson pushed back, asking whether the airline has designated quiet times and arguing that expecting a toddler to sit silently for 13 hours is unrealistic—kicking off the familiar debate over noise, parenting, and premium-cabin expectations.
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.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
