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Airlines offer priority boarding to first class passengers and to their elite frequent flyers. They also usually offer it to uniformed military personnel, and passengers with disabilities and to families with small children.
If you want to get on the plane early and don’t want to enlist in the military, I guess just keep having kids? Or pretending to?
A passenger seated in 4A handed a letter to a flight attendant outlining their travel requirements. They insisted that no coffee be served on board the flight, no nuts, and that they needed to be shielded from perfumes; colognes; scented soap; body lotion; and jet fuel.
An American Airlines passenger was blocked from flying from Los Angeles to Sydney after he attempted to board before it was his turn and bring too many carry-on bags onto the aircraft. Fellow travelers filmed this escalate.
One woman woke up on a flight and discovered her hair had been braided and she had no idea who did it: ‘I need you to come forth immediately.’
Last month Besnik Ismajlaj, a 53-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, was arrested at Chicago O’Hare for carrying a loaded gun through a TSA checkpoint and boarding a United Airlines flight. Newly released body cam footage shows the TSA failure that let him board his flight armed.
A United Airlines passenger, being dubbed a ‘Karen’, brought her dog to the galley of a Boeing 787. When a flight attendant reprimanded her – the dog can’t be in the food prep area – the woman defended the choice to bring him there: “He needs to do potty!”
The passenger felt that because the dog was wearing a diaper that made it o.k. to walk him through the aircraft, including the galley. And she got stern with the crewmember: “I don’t appreciate you taking that tone with me.”
An American Airlines passenger went online to blast the carrier, “They made me cover my butt because my shorts were too short!”
She says she was told by the gate agent that the flight crew saw her outfit and “said that [she] needed to change” in order to “cover my butt.”
It can be tough to get comfortable on a long flight in economy. Airlines sell flat bed seats for thousands of dollars, but in back you’re on your own to get creative.
One passenger managed his own lie flat experience, even though he was flying in the back cabin.
Senator John Fetterman was filmed getting into a verbal altercation with the pilot of an American Airlines regional jet on a trip from Washington’s National airport to Pittsburgh. The Senator refused to wear his seatbelt, this was reported to the captain, who intervened very professionally “it is a federal regulation.”
A 49-year-old former captain with the California Highway Patrol faces federal charges after allegedly sexually abusing two male flight attendants in business class on a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles on April 11.
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 »
