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A mother shared that her 10 year old son flew Southwest Airlines on Sunday as an unaccompanied minor. Her son sat in a window seat. A woman was in the aisle. And a creepy man chose to sit between them.
The woman objected and took the middle herself. The man sat down in the aisle, and tried to chat the boy up across her, even passing the kid his phone number.
A husband and wife were traveling with two kids. The husband is in first class, wife in coach with the kids. An hour and a half into the flight, the husband heads back to coach and tells his wife, “your turn.” They trade seats every hour, and their kids run back and forth between the cabins.
A severely drunk 23 year old American Airlines first class passenger threatened flight attendants, assaulted them and threw her luggage at them on a flight to Dallas. Police responded to the gate on arrival at DFW airport. The passenger told officers that she was the one mistreated, though, and that American’s cabin crew were harsh with her.
She’s about to be walked off of the aircraft. Another passenger observes she “just assaulted an officer.” She insists she didn’t scare anyone, that everyone was already scared because of “Congo and Palestine.” She gets quiet, and says to one of the officers, “I don’t want to go to jail, fatso.”
An American Airlines passenger says she purchased a $2,000 ticket but was denied boarding over the clothing she was wearing. Gate agents called police. She complains that she’s being refused boarding over a ‘dress code’ but the airline ‘refuses to show’ her the dress code.
An American Airlines passenger, dubbed a Karen on reddit, demanded that a passenger assigned to a window seat move so that her child could have it, became extremely abusive. The woman threatened to sue the airline, and to sue the passenger at the window, when he wouldn’t move.
Finally cabin crew gave into the woman’s demands, accommodating her insistence on the window seat for her kid – by upgrading the passenger who had the window seat to business class. That incensed passenger Karen even more.
Your carry-on allowance is supposed to be two items per person, but there’s no requirement that each person carry their bags on themselves, under their own power.
Prior to departure of an American Airlines flight from Tampa to Philadelphia, a passenger gets into an altercation and calls a flight attendant a “kike” but I don’t think he knows what that means.
A Delta Air Lines passenger bound for Austin was arrested as a stowaway after being caught while the plane was taxiing out to takeoff from Salt Lake City International Airport.
Wicliff Yves Fleurizard was trying to get home from a snowboarding trip to Park City, Utah. On Saturday he tried using a Southwest Airlines buddy pass but flights were full. So he changed his approach for Sunday.
An unruly passenger on a Jetstar flight from Melbourne to Bali turned around shortly after departure. Flight JQ43 left just before 11 am on Monday. The woman dubbed “the passenger from hell” started accusing another traveler of stealing her mobile phone. The accused allegedly attempted to force her way into the cockpit, shouting at fellow passengers, and physically pushing others aside as she moved through the cabin.
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 »
