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Passengers Attack 3 Gate Agents When Spirit Airlines Flight Is Delayed

by Gary Leff on July 15, 2020

Jul 15 2020

Three Spirit Airlines passengers were arrested for attacking three of the carrier’s employees during a delay of Spirit flight WN1004 from Fort Lauderdale to Philadelphia on Tuesday. The employees all “suffered minor injuries” after the three passengers in the gate area hit staff with “phones, shoes, full water bottles, metal boarding signs and fast food.”

The employees “were also punched and kicked in different sections of their bodies numerous times” according to Sheriff’s department arrest documents. Here’s video of it all going down:

Man Threatens To Kill Everyone ‘In The Name Of Jesus’ On Alaska Airlines Flight To Chicago

by Gary Leff on July 13, 2020

Jul 13 2020

Saturday night’s Alaska Airlines flight AS422 from Seattle to Chicago returned to SeaTac airport after a man on board the 11:10 p.m. departure threatened to kill everybody on the aircraft “in the name of Jesus.”

The man was unarmed, he calmed down and was even reportedly cooperative with law enforcement when the aircraft returned to the terminal.

TSA Allows Scissors Less Than 4 Inches, Resist The Temptation To Use Them

by Gary Leff on July 8, 2020

Jul 08 2020

While you’re permitted to bring scissors, you need to handle them responsibly while inflight. That can pose surprising challenges. I present you with one example.

Guess The Airline? Passenger Kicks Agent In Head, Beats Another With Dustpan, Coughs On Cops Saying She Has COVID-19

by Gary Leff on July 3, 2020

Jul 03 2020

Gate agents reported that she became angry over the fee, and things escalated when they told Ms. Jackson they wouldn’t allow her to fly. That’s when she “threw a bag of shoes at the agents at a service desk…reached over the service counter to hit an agent, …punched [another agent] in the head” and things only got more out of hand from there.

Airline Passenger Refuses To Wear Mask, Lights Up A Cigarette

by Gary Leff on June 20, 2020

Jun 20 2020

Despite airline requirements, customers continue to flout the rules. And one passenger did so with enough of a flair for the dramatic that his flight actually diverted.

Porn Star Yanked Off United Flight After Speaking Out On Protests

by Gary Leff on June 5, 2020

Jun 05 2020

Was Elle Knox making an important enough statement to ignore FAA rules that she stay seated – indeed, is it important for all of us not to stay seated? – or was the United captain right that the message may matter but a commercial airline flight is the wrong time and wrong place?

Passenger Videotapes Himself Being Denied Boarding For Refusing To Wear A Mask

by Gary Leff on June 4, 2020

Jun 04 2020

A Ryanair passenger tried to fly from Dublin to London Gatwick without a face mask. He had flown before the face mask requirement went into effect, and claims not to have known he needed one – and if it was required, Ryanair should’ve provided it, the airline shouldn’t be able to keep his money and not transport him.

The passenger claims that Ryanair threatened him with a lifetime ban if he shared this video. And he further argues that if underwear were made a requirement of flying after he purchased the ticket then it’s an ex post facto change and shouldn’t be enforced.

NFL Player Sues United Over Inflight Sexual Harassment and Assault

by Gary Leff on May 20, 2020

May 20 2020

Usually onboard harassment involves a creepy guy and alcohol. This time onboard harassment involved alcohol and a creepy girl. Maybe that only happens, or at least happens most often, when the victim plays in the NFL.

Man Flies To Germany, Tries To Sneak In To See His Girlfriend

by Gary Leff on May 15, 2020

May 15 2020

Coronavirus has been a strain on relationships, from the hotel that markets itself as a great break from your spouse and monetizes its guest list with a divorce lawyer who offers free consultations to the 85 and 89 year olds who live on opposite sides of the Germany-Denmark border and meet each day for a picnic, staying on their own side of the border and social distancing.

To one 20 year old, no coronavirus border restriction was going to keep him from his love. Then he ran into the German Federal Police.

With Business Travel Cratered, Extra Money Faking Expense Reports Dries Up Too

by Gary Leff on May 11, 2020

May 11 2020

Not only has business travel ground to a halt, but as a result employee expense reimbursements have too.

In normal times expense reimbursements are one of the primary areas of fraud that companies face. Employees fake receipts. They change amounts on receipts. They mis-describe personal purchases as being for business and submit those. They submit the same item more than once. Employees know which supervisors don’t look closely, and learn which companies don’t use sophisticated software to catch these tricks.