After a brief, steep climb to roughly 625 feet, the aircraft issued a mayday, lost radio contact seconds later, and came down in the densely populated Meghani Nagar district.
When the ‘solo traveler surcharge’ news was first broken by Thrifty Traveler, Delta and United pulled these fares from the market. American – which by all accounts was first to implement this idea – pulled only some of their fares. However, they’ve largely returned.
The airline can start putting up flight attendants in much lower quality hotels during their layovers. Instead of business class hotels, we could start to see hovels.
An Indian student was handcuffed and detained by U.S. immigration authorities at Newark airport, and viral video shows him expressing frustration at being refused entry into the United States despite holding a valid visa.
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U.S. airlines have been selling passenger data to Customs and Border Protection via their data clearinghouse. The government’s contract for the data prevents them from admitting where they got the data.
Tiron Alexander claimed to be employed as a flight attendant or pilot with seven different airlines to nonrev on several airlines, using 30 fraudulent sets of credentials and stolen badge numbers from actual airline employees. He booked flights through the Spirit Airlines employee travel portal.
I recently wrote about a Qatar Airways flight attendant fired for stealing a business class passenger’s phone out of the lavatory. Now another flight attendant appears to have stolen a passenger’s iPhone. And when the airline turned up the heat, the phone wound up in a river.
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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.
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