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The online social media Australian-Filipina Blackman family shared their travels with kids in coach – booking the bulkhead row and letting the kids sleep on the floor for their flight. While they’re mostly known among their millions of followers for cute family content, this has caused some consternation in aviation circles.
A woman showed up at the Miami airport in a bright pink bathrobe and flip flops for her flight to Havana.
A JetBlue passenger says they had their laptop fried when a flight attendant spilled an iced coffee all over them. The crewmember “apologized, brought me a cheese plate, and gave me a $25 voucher” and they left it at that until they realized the laptop would no longer work.
On United Airlines flight 2479 from Houston to San Francisco on New Year’s morning, just after arrival, a woman decided that her seat was “in the middle of the right aisle” of the Boeing 777 aircraft.
There’s a rant attracting a lot of attention online about passengers standing up “like their lives depended on it” at the end of a 40 minute flight. They’re incredulous that someone would do this on such a short flight (or at all).
The animal was too large to fit underneath the seat in front of its owner. It was too large to fit on the floor. So the dog’s owner just had it sit beside them, notwithstanding the seat was assigned to someone else. And the dog bumped the passenger out of the seat.
A Southwest Airlines passenger’s 7-month-old kitten had a potty accident after getting scared during a rough landing. She cleaned up the mess, but the crew on the continuing flight segment closed the lavatory due to the smell, confronted her, and removed them from their next flight on the same aircraft.
He unleashed a barrage of verbal abuse directed at both airline staff and fellow travelers, screaming and then also kicking employees in a drunken frenzy.
Other passengers stepped in to restrain the man using seatbelts but he broke free, tearing apart flexcuffs that had been applied by crew. He then went to smash the window with his fist. That’s when they diverted.
Groups of men can be seen standing in the aisle, talking loudly, snacking, and disregarding flight attendant pleas to remain seated. The video’s caption read that such actions “bring a bad name to the country.”
The passenger reportedly boarded the flight already appearing intoxicated. Once inflight, she demanded to be served more. A flight attendant refused, and she hurled a drink in one cabin crew member’s face and shoved another. She repeatedly used racial slurs and exclaimed, “You don’t know who my father is,” and “I’m an ANC b**ch,” while also claiming to be a “mystery shopper.”
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 »
