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An airline who fails to deliver a urine-free flight ought to refund the ticket price. They sold transportation, not urine-soaked transportation. But the person who actually did the thing ought to be on the hook for damages.
A Spirit Airlines passenger discovered someone else occupying her front-row seat, 1A, which she had paid extra for. It’s a “Big Front Seat” and starting next week the airline will try to turn it into a ‘real’ first class.
Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer and founding member of Public Enemy Flavor Flav handed out snacks on a Southwest Airlines flight. He says he ran into some flight attendants in Paris during the Olympics and they invited him to do it – along with making the landing announcement – on his next flight. Well, they were crew on a trip he was taking and why not?
Yeah, boyeeeeee!
A New York politician demanded ‘don’t you know who I am?’ when being denied boarding from an American Airlines flight. But the gate agent didn’t know, and didn’t care.
Albany County Executive Dan McCoy was headed to the Democratic National Convention, but missed his flight when he left the gate area to grab a Chick-fil-A sandwich. He returned with the boarding doors to his flight closed.
The FAA reported Wednesday that it had sent 43 cases of passenger incidents to the FBI over the past year. That’s out of 1,240 cases airlines reported to the FAA – that sounds like a lot but there were about 820 million domestic passengers carried in the U.S. last year. And the number of incidents is down 80% compared to 2021, when there were far fewer passengers.
What accounts for better-behaved passengers in the skies?
Hip Hop start Juvenile (Terius Gray) was kicked out of American Airlines first class. His wife was allowed to stay in the overbooked cabin. However, rather than suffer the indignity of American’s Main Cabin, he got off the aircraft – declaring himself a celebrity and than American was making a mistake denying him the seat.
Bally Sports reporter Michaela Bennett is mad at United over a checked bag that she got back at baggage claim, with her jewelry missing. It’s her second United trip in a row where things have gone south.
Two passengers were arrested at Miami International Airport after refusing to deplane an American Airlines flight bound for Las Vegas on Tuesday. 27-year-old Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier had a bleeding head wound and blood-soaked bandages.
It was about 1 a.m. when he is said to have walked up to an elderly female passenger, exposed himself, and urinated on her for approximately 20 seconds. Flight attendants tried to intervene but he became aggressive – and reports are that he struck an elderly man with his right hand – before collapsing into a different seat.
Before airline deregulation, airline tickets were so expensive that most people couldn’t afford to fly. Now anyone who can buy a ticket is allowed on buses in the sky. There’s no decency requirement, and there shouldn’t be, but that doesn’t mean whatever y’all are doing up there as passengers is ok.
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 »
