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A Delta Air Lines passenger shares that after misconnecting in Atlanta while enroute to San Francisco on Sunday, they got moved from their extra legroom seat to a middle seat in the back of a flight Monday morning. And they had words with the woman in the window seat beside them.
Having to share power in coach has become more of a problem as passengers increasingly rely on their devices – either for inflight entertainment (because American Airlines flights lack screens) or to connect to the world (Delta’s free wifi).
But how about this passenger in first class who seems to need more than one outlet for themselves – and deprives the passenger behind them?
On Monday night’s United Airlines flight 2129 redeye from San Diego to Washington Dulles a prisoner was being escorted on the aircraft – and tried to escape.
Two passengers found themselves with the entire Philippine Airlines business class cabin to themselves. The young man and young woman decided to have dinner together on the plane. He moved over to her side of the aircraft. They began with champagne…
What appears to be an emotional support poodle flew American AIrlines out of Dallas in its own first class seat on Sunday.. The dog named “happy” in Chinese was reported “well behaved” but still shouldn’t have been there.
A Korean Air flight from Bangkok to Seoul took an unsettling turn when a passenger reportedly tried to open an emergency exit mid-flight. The incident unfolded around an hour after takeoff where a male passenger seated at a crew jump seat by the emergency exit attempted to turn the exit door handle.
The Auburn men’s basketball team was flying to Houston on Friday when an altercation between players forced their plane to turn back shortly after takeoff. The No. 11 Tigers, fresh off a season-opening victory against Vermont, were en route to face No. 4 Houston when a scuffle broke out among a group of players on board.
A Ryanair flight from East Midlands, UK, to Tenerife was forced to make an expedited landing on November 4 when an unruly passenger behavior urinated in the cabin aisle. Flight FR3152’s 4.5 hour journey went off the rails as several passengers became disruptive – and one became messy.
A passenger was restrained by crew and other flyers on Copa Airlines flight 208 from Brasilia to Panama City after attempting to open an emergency exit door approximately 30 minutes prior to arrival. He was reportedly brandishing a plastic knife taken from his meal tray.
The disturbance began when the man grabbed a flight attendant and attempted to use the plastic knife to take her hostage while making his way toward the exit. Another flight attendant attempted to intervene but struggled to restrain him due to his strength. Other flight attendants began to scream.
There’s always an aviation angle. People were flying – across the country, across the Atlantic – to cast ballots, often because of challenges they faced trying to cast their votes absentee. That’s a lot of time and effort considering each is about one of 160 million registered voters in the United States.
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 »
