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You should stand as soon as your plane lands and arrives at the gate. You shouldn’t wait until everyone in the rows ahead of you has had their turn to get off the plane. This helps everyone stretch out a little bit, and move faster off the plane, which benefits other passengers, the airline, and ultimately you too.
A woman found herself in the middle of somebody else’s travel hack. She was assigned a middle seat on her flight, between a couple who had booked the aisle and window seat in the same row.
They didn’t offer to trade. So the woman was stuck sitting between a couple – and they talked to each other throughout the flight, and passed food and drinks back and forth. They did this over the middle seat passenger’s laptop.
A woman sitting in business class was approached by a flight attendant before departure. The passenger says that the flight attendant asked her if she’d switch seats with a six year old in economy.
United flight 762 from Miami to Newark diverted to Orlando on Tuesday when a woman on board bit a flight attendant and hurled profanities at fellow passengers.
She started screaming at those around her and when flight attendants attempted to de-escalate the situation – and restrain her with zip ties – she bit a male flight attendant’s shoulder, tearing a piece of his uniform. The woman also spit at another passenger and threatened them.
An evangelical pastor attacked his wife on Alaska Airlines because she was upgraded, and he wasn’t.
The pair were traveling on Alaska flight 275 from Seattle to Anchorage on Tuesday of last week. Seventy five year old Roger Allan Holmberg Sr. “flipped [his wife] the bird” on board the aircraft and assaulted her upon discovering that she has Mileage Plan elite status.
A passenger on Air China flight 2754 from Quzhou to Chengdu on Thursday opened an emergency exit door on the Airbus A319 – mistaking it for the door to the toilet. The emergency slide deployed, passengers headed down the slide, and the flight was cancelled.
It’s always American Airlines or Spirit. At LAX on Saturday around 6 a.m. it was American.
American Airlines flight 3921 from Chicago O’Hare to Manchester, New Hampshire near Boston diverted to Buffalo on Wednesday when a passenger urinated in the aisle of the Embraer E-170 aircraft operated by wholly-owned regional carrier Envoy Air.
It looks as though Delta is refusing to let a child sit in the seat they’d purchased for the child but that’s not true. The passenger was technically in the wrong here – though the airline handled it badly, and ultimately compensated the customer.
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 »
