Category Archives for Passengers.
A traveler at Kuala Lumpur’s airport McDonald’s erupted at staff after realizing the burger she ordered contained beef. She insisted, “I am from India, how can you?” and argued that McDonald’s should have known she wanted a vegetarian option.
A passenger stunned fellow travelers by calmly cracking eggs, rolling dough, and making fresh pasta right on her airline tray table mid-flight—raising questions about etiquette, hygiene, and just how far inflight dining should go.
A woman in the window seat on an American Airlines A319 spent nearly half an hour grinding dead skin off her bare feet, sending “foot dust” into the air and onto the floor. Her seatmate says he alerted the crew, but the flight attendant wouldn’t intervene, leaving him to stand for the rest of the flight rather than sit beside her.
A venture founder went online to brag that he coded for 30 hours straight on multiple flights because “rest is a deprecated feature.” The internet treated it as parody, but it’s a good moment to look at what frequent flyers actually know about working in airports and onboard — and why real productivity at 35,000 feet looks very different from hustle-culture mythology.
Porsha Williams was removed from a Delta Air Lines flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta after an onboard dispute that led crew to request law-enforcement assistance. The flight continued normally, but police met the aircraft on arrival and escorted the Real Housewives star off the plane.
A fellow passenger photographed Congressman Brad Sherman on a United flight with sexualized images visible on his iPad, prompting the California Democrat to give an unusual interview about the incident. Sherman admits he looked at the posts, says they appeared in his “For You” feed, and added that he tends to ‘look at photos of women longer than sunsets.’
A Delta flight to South Africa was moments from departure when an elderly couple realized their passport was missing and had to deplane. After the aircraft began pushback, a flight attendant found the passport, stopped the plane, and brought the couple back onboard—earning cheers from passengers and saving their dream trip.
An American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., carrying several members of Congress, diverted to Kansas City after a passenger shouting “we live in a fascist state” was removed by police. Lawmakers were en route to vote on reopening the government — and ended up experiencing a flight disruption of their own.
A viral video shows a passenger repeatedly pulling down an airplane window shade while a 4-year-old behind him keeps pushing it back up. The two go back and forth in a mid-air tug-of-war — so who was right? Here’s how window-shade etiquette really works, and what you should do when the person behind you disagrees.
A passenger stripped down to his boxers and confronted TSA screeners at New Orleans Airport, briefly shutting down security lanes—and it was all captured on video.
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 »
