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Flight Attendant Removed After Taking Two Year Old To Task Over Mask

Apr 05 2021

On a Spirit Airlines flight on Monday from Orlando to New York, a family was kicked off when their two year old, who was eating yogurt, removed their mask. The mother of the two year old girl is seven months’ pregnant, and their other child – traveling with them – is special needs.

Eventually everyone returned to the aircraft – except for the crewmember who made an issue of the mask in the first place.

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185 Baby Turtles Found Inside Passenger’s Luggage

Mar 30 2021

Sunday morning 185 baby turtles were found wrapped in plastic inside a red suitcase at the Baltra airport in the Galapagos Islands. The passenger and his luggage were bound for Guayaquil, Ecaudor.

These animals were declared as ‘souvenirs’ but were discovered going through x-ray. Sadly, 10 of the tortoises had already died. An additional five died on Monday. The rest “were not in good health.”

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Spirit Airlines Flight Diverts After Passenger Tries To Exit Plane Mid-Air

Mar 26 2021

Wednesday’s Spirit Airlines flight NK185 from Cleveland to Los Angeles diverted to Denver after a passenger tried to open the emergency exit door of the Airbus A320.

The plane was pressurized. The passenger was never going to succeed. But he was ‘unruly’ and several other passengers on the plane held him down and zip tied him. When the plane made it to Denver the man was “wheeled out on a gurney by paramedics.”

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Cop Tasers Passengers At Atlanta Airport Security As Fight Breaks Out Over Man Without ID

Mar 25 2021

Around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning a fight broke out at an Atlanta airport security checkpoint. Three teenagers were trying to get through TSA screening while one of them lacked I.D.

There’s a simple procedure for confirming your identity without ID. It takes a little longer but the TSA accesses privately compiled databases with personal information and you confirm details about yourself. Instead video shows how things deteriorated.

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This American Airlines Passenger Story Made Me Cry, But In A Good Way

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Mar 23 2021

This is exactly what the airline means when it talks about their new-ish slogan, caring for people on life’s journey.

I’m not sure this is something that sets American Airlines apart, but on this day and on this one particular flight the airline’s employees really took care of a passenger by treating them as a person with their own story and their own reason for flying that day.

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Brawl Ensues When Anti-Maskers Get Kicked Off Flight In Fort Lauderdale

Mar 19 2021

Two women were removed from an American Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale to Chicago. You can see them walking away from the gate, with masks covering their mouths but not their noses. They’re escorted by an officer. Despite the presence of law enforcement, one of the women has words with a passenger waiting in the gate area – and it turns into a brawl, with the officer trying to stop the fight by grabbing at the shirt of one of the women.

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John Kerry Flew American Airlines First Class – And Wouldn’t Wear A Mask

Mar 17 2021

John Kerry is a former U.S. Senator, former Secretary of State and former Democratic Presidential candidate. He is currently serving as United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.

And he was photographed in American Airlines first class on a Boston – D.C. shuttle flight not wearing a mask in apparent violation of the President’s – and the CDC’s – mask mandate. He wasn’t eating or drinking. He was reading a book.

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