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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.
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.”
An American Airlines passenger went online to blast the carrier, “They made me cover my butt because my shorts were too short!”
She says she was told by the gate agent that the flight crew saw her outfit and “said that [she] needed to change” in order to “cover my butt.”
It can be tough to get comfortable on a long flight in economy. Airlines sell flat bed seats for thousands of dollars, but in back you’re on your own to get creative.
One passenger managed his own lie flat experience, even though he was flying in the back cabin.
Senator John Fetterman was filmed getting into a verbal altercation with the pilot of an American Airlines regional jet on a trip from Washington’s National airport to Pittsburgh. The Senator refused to wear his seatbelt, this was reported to the captain, who intervened very professionally “it is a federal regulation.”
A 49-year-old former captain with the California Highway Patrol faces federal charges after allegedly sexually abusing two male flight attendants in business class on a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles on April 11.
On Thursday, American Airlines flight 950 from São Paulo to New York JFK was delayed 30 minutes by weather. As the Boeing 787-9 began taxiing out to runway 28R, a business class passenger got up from her seat and confronted a flight attendant at the rear galley.
The Iranian biomedical engineering student was flying Frontier Airlines on New Year’s Eve. She was connecting in Boston and barely made it to her gate prior to departure. When she arrived, she was told that it would cost her $100 to bring her carry-on on board. She argued, but the gate agent shut the boarding door.
Police met Southwest Airlines flight 418 from Philadelphia to Chicago Midway when it landed because a woman onboard removed her clothes and defecated on her seat.
A flight attendant stole a passenger’s phone. The airline acknowledged it, fired the crewmember, and covered the replacement cost of the device. But the passenger feels they’re being shortchanged.
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 »
