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A woman stood up in the aisle for her whole seven hour flight, according to another passenger on board who shared the incident online. The passenger was up whenever the seat belt sign was off. This was even her preferred position for watching a movie.
Dallas-based right wing YouTube personality Alex Stein walked through the E concourse of Dallas – Fort Worth airport wearing a clown-sized Make America Great Again hat and filming his interactions with other passengers, before boarding his Spirit Airlines flight to Las Vegas with the hat on.
Two passengers on Argentinian ultra-low cost carrier Flybondi are dancing – not in the aisles or at their seats, but on other passengers’ seats, standing up and using the overhead bins to keep themselves upright. The woman manages to get jiggy with it sans the assistance of the bins, while her male counterpart launches himself backwards into the mosh pit of fans at their seats.
A passenger on a Volaris domestic flight Sunday morning tried to hijack the plane and have it take him to the United States. The 31-year-old man was traveling with his wife and two children. He attacked a flight attendant and attempted to force his way into the cockpit.
A lot of people went crazy on planes during the pandemic. The level of crazy incidents never returned to pre-pandemic levels. What do we think is going on here?
A flight attendant on the Boeing 777-300ER videotaped this by aiming their phone’s camera at a monitor that was filming the entrance to the cockpit that displayed a live feed. They added their own explicit commentary, and shared it via WhatsApp.
A Southwest Airlines passenger tried to board their flight with a travel pillow. The gate agent had a problem with this – because they already had a carry-on and a personal item, and this was a third “bag.” From the photo though they eventually prevailed. Usually they’re right, personal items aren’t always counted as personal items! But there’s ambiguity.
After a United Airlines flight from Cancun to Los Angeles, a passenger hurled racist insults at an Indian American family while enroute to the terminal from a bus gate. She also insulted Taufiq about… Indian food?
A Delta Air Lines passenger flying economy from Paris to Boston placed their used meal tray on the ground in the aisle, so they could make tray table space to get work done. At least three people stepped in the partially-eaten trash on the way to the lavatory.
We sat and waited for operations to find us a new gate to return to. Once we were back and the aircraft doors were opened, a Delta red coat supervisor came on board. It was explained she’d need to come off the aircraft to discuss the situation. She gathered her belongings and got off the plane.
Plot twist: a few minutes later, the woman and her dog returned to the aircraft. She was being allowed to fly, after all.
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 »
