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A reader on Delta Air lines flight 800 from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles on Sunday had a front row seat to a large dalmatian experiencing bowel issues throughout the six hour journey. Passengers in the area around the dalmatian were told they would receive 4,000 SkyMiles for the inconvenience.
You cannot self-upgrade. If you see an empty first class seat, you can’t just take it. I have never, ever seen it actually work. What I’ve seen is passengers who tried it being embarrassed, and I’ve seen passengers escalate matters when they’re sent to the back and get kicked off the plane. But some are now trying it even though they know they’re going to get kicked out – they just want a free drink before that happens!
Retired UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov was removed from a Frontier Airlines flight in Las Vegas over the weekend in a dispute over whether he was willing and able to assist in an emergency while seated in an exit row.
A retired firefighter traveling on American Airlines flight 167 from New York to Tokyo Haneda forced a diversion to Alaska on January 5 after the business class passenger struggled with a lavatory door, began banging it from inside, and got confused about how the handle worked.
When the man finally made it out, he’s alleged to have grabbed a flight attendant by the lapels, which the crewmember considered aggressive and he called a “kind gesture.”
An elderly Russian traveler mistakenly stepped onto a baggage conveyor belt at Vladikavkaz Airport, thinking it would lead to her departure gate. She had checked in for a flight to Moscow Domodedovo Airport on suspended oneworld carrier S7 Airlines.
A JetBlue flight scheduled to depart Boston’s Logan International Airport for San Juan, Puerto Rico, was interrupted on Tuesday evening when a male passenger allegedly opened an overwing exit door and deployed the emergency slide as the plane was taxiing.
Of all the bad behavior on planes – like bare feet, propped up on the bulkhead, or walking barefoot into the lavatory – perhaps the worst is draping your hair or jacket over the behind you. That’s because it isn’t just rude or disgusting, it also encroaches onto the limited space of another passenger nearby.
A Jewish passenger was removed from a flight, that based on video appears to be on JetBlue. Although it’s identified on social media as American Airlines. There are very few American Airlines narrowbody aircraft with seat back video screens, and that system looks like JetBlue’s rather than American’s.
According to a social media account the passenger’s removal was prompted by their “comments regarding Gaza.”
A parent in this situation should be the most sympathetic passenger imaginable – but not when she drops the f-word a second time, and calls the agent something else too. And that’s before even bringing the employee’s race into it through use of an epithet sometimes used to describe African Americans.
The online social media Australian-Filipina Blackman family shared their travels with kids in coach – booking the bulkhead row and letting the kids sleep on the floor for their flight. While they’re mostly known among their millions of followers for cute family content, this has caused some consternation in aviation circles.
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 »
