An American Airlines 25 year veteran flight attendant who was assaulted by a passenger on a Charlotte – Las Vegas flight has been fired by the airline over the incident. As usual, the crewmember’s union has not been helpful.
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An 81-year-old grandmother from the Bronx flew to Puerto Rico on Frontier Airlines with her emotional support animal. It’s an African Grey parrot (not a Norwegian Blue) and its name is Plucky. However, the airline refused to allow her to fly home with it.
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Crew members provided towels and apparently even a change of clothes to the man. Another passenger demanded the perp get sent to coach – and he was relegated to economy for landing.
Delta is back on top in March on-time performance rankings, according to data from aviation analytics company Cirium. However that’s less about material improvement on their part and more a function of Southwest’s (and Spirit’s) slippage during the month.
An American Airlines passenger forced flight 198 from New York JFK to Milan to divert back to its origin four hours into the trip on Monday night – after he became irate and charged the cockpit because he was refused an exit row seat while traveling with a lap infant and did not receive his first choice of meal.
On Sunday, an American Airlines gate agent working a severely delayed flight from Birmingham, Alabama to Charlotte approached the passengers before the inbound aircraft arrives – giving them a talk on how they’re going to need to be nice to the flight attendants.
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A United Airlines flyer admitted to taking a glass off a flight to use at home, and other passengers are weighing in on the things they’ve stolen for their preferred carrier. Am I the only person with UA kleptomania? byu/rbitton inunitedairlines Comment byu/rbitton from discussion inunitedairlines Comment byu/rbitton from discussion inunitedairlines A United flight attendant advised that she only notices passengers taking glassware when doing landing preparation, “while I’m collecting glasses if I’m short a glass” however if it’s off of a first class meal tray “I would never notice.” Their advice? “take whatever you want as long as it doesn’t shatter during landing.” Another employee shared that they have multiple Polaris blankets from nonreving up front.” Just don’t “walk out with it in your hand.” You should “stuff it in your bag B4 deplaning.”…
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