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A British Airways business class passenger flying long haul with her 7-month-old baby asked if she could delay her meal service while she nursed the child and put him to sleep. That request was declined, so she was forced to skip meal service. She set herself up in the business class bed, lying fully flat, in order to nurse under a cover.
She insisted on keeping the fanny pack on her lap rather than placing it under the seat in front of her or in the overhead bin.
The Kalispell flight diverted to Sioux Falls. Crew timed out, and they were offered rebooking a full day later. However, they suggested renting a car and received written assurance that Delta would cover the cost.
A passenger on American Airlines flight 91 from London Heathrow to Chicago on Sunday says that they found themselves in an altercation with the woman seated behind them, whom they dubbed a “Karen.”
A drunk United Airlines passenger decided to ‘self-deport’ from their flight prior to pushback, when flight attendants wouldn’t serve him a predeparture cocktail.
Frontier Airlines tied to remove a miscreant passenger from a flight heading to Florida, only he wouldn’t go. That delayed the flight and all of the passengers on it. One woman wasn’t having that – and she decided to take it upon herself to eject the man. She got up in the aisle and confronted him, telling him – in the foulest language imaginable – that he needed to get off the plane because he was holding everyone up.
On June 9, blogger JT Genter was kicked off of American Airlines flight AA106 from New York JFK to London Heathrow for moving a flight attendant’s bags out of the premium economy overhead bins and into coach.
The flight attendant whose bag was moved responded in the comments to my story about this.
There were 230 passengers and 12 crew onboard – and there was one survivor, who walked away from the crash. Thirty eight year old Ramesh Vishwaskumar Bucharvada, who was seated in 11A behind an emergency exit, is being treated at a nearby hospital.
Blogger JT Genter of Award Wallet writes that he was kicked off of an American Airlines flight from New York JFK to London Heathrow on Monday after moving someone’s bag from the overhead bin above his seat in premium economy.
As if Spirit Airlines isn’t having enough time after emerging from bankruptcy – they had a -26% margin last quarter – on June 5 a passenger made a bomb threat in order to delay a plane. He was mad about missing the Detroit – Los Angeles flight.
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 »
