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The very best Halloween costume?
The “Crazy Plane Lady” became a worldwide sensation back in July declaring that a passenger on her flight was “not real.” Naturally she is now the best possible Halloween get up.
Families occasionally struggle to secure seats together on flights, leading to requests for other passengers to switch. One passenger’s refusal to give up his window seat to a child resulted in a confrontational exchange with the mother, where he delivered a sharp retort after she threatened him with a disruptive flight due to her screaming child.
“Lifted Lingerie: Unpacking the Disturbing Trend of Underwear Theft from Airline Luggage” dives into the unsettling phenomena of personal items, specifically underwear, being stolen from checked bags during air travel. Using recent incidents involving American Airlines and Delta as case studies, the post explores the multiple points of failure in the baggage handling process and highlights how airlines struggle to combat this growing issue.
The “Crazy Plane Lady” who became a worldwide sensation back in July is trying to extend her fifteen minutes with a new grift.
On July 2, an American Airlines passenger declared that a man seated by her was “not real” and warned everyone that if they stayed on board the flight they would die. Since then she’s been trying to keep herself relevant, and now she’s revealed her first grift.
A Southwest Airlines passenger is demanding to know why she was “pulled aside” and told she “needed to put a sweater on” over her sports bra. She admits says she wears the same outfit on every trip, and never has a problem. And she wonders whether the size of her mammary glands is what triggered the boarding agent?
A Southwest Airlines passenger is being kicked off of his flight – and while that’s going on he grabs another passenger’s phone – and “proceeds to make a phone call” with it while being he’s removed from the aircraft.
A woman flying Southwest Airlines was kicked off her flight after petting their puppy through the mesh of the puppy’s pet carrier prior to departure, according to other passengers on board.
On Wednesday morning, a Southwest Airlines passenger on a cross country flight departing from Oakland hadn’t finished her laundry and dried “her clothes by hanging them on the window shades.”
The airline responded to the customer who shared this on social media, saying “Orange you glad it wasn’t underwear?”
An easyJet flight from Tenerife, Spain to London’s Gatwick airport was cancelled on Sunday night after a toilet incident. Passengers and crew discovered someone had gone number two on the lavatory floor.
Flight 8054 had already gone from bad to worse. It was delayed over three hours when passengers had
to be moved from one aircraft to another. A smaller second plane meant that the sold out flight was overbooked, and easyJet was offering 500 euro vouchers for anyone that would volunteer to take a later flight. Everyone would later find themselves on a later flight.
Friday’s Copa Airlines flight 393 from Panama City to Tampa, Florida took off at 9:36 a.m. But less than an hour later, it was headed back to the airline’s hub with special forces placed on alert. Crew had identified what they thought was a bomb placed in the lavatory. It was a diaper. An adult diaper.
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 »
