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A passenger on board one of Aeroflot’s two daily Stavropol – Moscow Airbus A320 flights felt the need to smoke in the lavatory. When she was admonished for it – and getting up while the seat belt sign was on during turbulence – her first reaction was to appeal the decision to the pilots – by trying to break into the cockpit.
When that didn’t work she stripped off her top and bit a flight attendant.
People don’t dress up to fly the way they used to. And at airports in South Florida sometimes they barely dress up at all.
Krzysztof Moczulski, spokesperson for Star Alliance member LOT Polish Airlines, explained on Twitter how a passenger can get banned by an airline, adding “I didn’t believe I’d ever write a piece like this.”
Maybe the only worse possible time in the world to break up with someone than on a plane is actually at the start of a flight when they’re still right next to you and neither of you can leave for hours?
Reading this headline I had visions of Southwest Airlines gate agents tossing the woman out of her wheelchair.
Nearly a year ago a 25 year old woman was boarding a Southwest Airlines flight in Fort Lauderdale, heading for Denver, when “her electric wheelchair hit a junction that caused her to be thrown from her chair.”
A couple arrived at the Tel Aviv airport for Ryanair 4710, the 12:55 p.m. flight to Brussels-Charleroi on Tuesday. They were traveling with their infant son, but hadn’t paid the airline’s €25 (US$27.14) fee for an infant in lap.
An American Airlines passenger landed in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, accidentally leaving their wallet behind on the flight. He reported the wallet missing.
The man had an AirTag on his wallet, and showed him that it was still on the plane. And, he says, he watched the wallet travel to 35 cities.
In this video you can see two passengers brawl at Fort Lauderdale airport baggage claim. Maybe you’re thinking, ‘just another weekday in South Florida’ and that’s fair. Because that’s apparently what the Broward County Sheriff’s Office must have been thinking, responding to the situation by walking by and not get involved.
New video has surfaced showing Frontier Airlines passengers, who showed up too late for their flight around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, not take the news lightly that they wouldn’t be traveling. Instead, they “physically assaulted a team member who required medical treatment” according to a report of the incident.
The woman beside me, and the woman in the aisle of row 2 she was traveling with, both had coffee cups. The two woman were probably in their late 50s or early 60s, and were giggling. They talked about what was in the cups, and it wasn’t coffee. That would become important later on in the flight, during a medical emergency, since one of the women claimed to be a doctor.
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 »
