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Crittenden burst into expletives, approached the agent while the inbound aircraft was deplaning, and swung a punch, knocking him unconscious and causing head and shoulder contusions. The agent required follow‑up dental care.
A passenger on a JetBlue flight demanded to be allowed to cut in front of other passengers getting off, identifying herself as a lawyer. Was she going to get a judge to order everyone to wait for her?
A passenger boarded their American Airlines flight and found a child sitting in their seat. He paused, double checked the row, and is ready to let the child keep the seat-provided the parent asks politely.
The victim said he flagged flight attendants, he pressed the call button, and even got up to seek help. When he returned to his seat, he says, the man approached, forehead‑to‑forehead, then grabbed his neck and began to choke him.
They planned a romatic first trip together: São Paulo to Paris. They were each paying separately. She booked business class because “comfort mattered” and “she’s always traveled that way.” He chose economy, because business was “unnecessary.” Then things unraveled.
A passenger was snooping over the shoulder of their seat opponent and noticed the text – and reported it to a flight attendant.
A Southwest Airlines passenger flying from Baltimore to Denver on Wednesday reportedly pulled out a “steel box [with] lots of bottles inside.” While the passenger seated across from him at first thought that it was medicine, the man “proceed[ed] to use his Dunkin’ Donuts loyalty card to start cutting up lines of cocaine.”
On Saturday he flew American Airlines from Minneapolis – where he was attending the funeral of slain Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman – to Philadelphia, near his home in Wilmington. He bumped a first class passenger out of the cabin to do so.
A Delta Air Lines first class passenger on a trip from Seattle to Detroit watched another customer in the cabin get mad – and take matters into his own hands – when his seat back entertainment screen wouldn’t work.
A British Airways business class passenger flying long haul with her 7-month-old baby asked if she could delay her meal service while she nursed the child and put him to sleep. That request was declined, so she was forced to skip meal service. She set herself up in the business class bed, lying fully flat, in order to nurse under a cover.
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 »
