Video has been seen on twitter over a million times of women on board a TUI flight blasting music, dancing in their seats and tossing back a beverage – while a passenger across the aisle has her head planted firmly in her tray table with hands over her ears trying to escape the madness.
Corrupt Atlanta Airport Let Executives Expense A Funeral, Made Payment To “Become A Hot Chick”
If you wanted to open a business like a restaurant in the Atlanta airport you needed to pay the ex-Mayor’s daughter first. The airport’s former manager was fired for being insufficiently corrupt, and then the city council buried the payments that bought his silence.
Getting kickbacks from vendors avoids problems with violating FAA rules on use of funds, but does sometimes attract attention of the FBI. Some employees just commit expense fraud.
American Airlines Sells A Ticket To A Cello – And Then Denies It Boarding In Dallas
On April 5, two elderly passengers were removed from an American Airlines flight because the gate agent wouldn’t let them fly with their cello – even though they’d purchased a seat for the cello from the airline and flown with it on the first segment of their trip.
The passengers had flown from Palm Springs to Dallas – Fort Worth. They boarded their second flight. And a gate agent came on board and declared that they’d be unable to fly with a cello.
Daring Rescue Of Airline Crew Whose Plane Was Set Ablaze In Sudan [Roundup]
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
American Airlines Flight Attendant Locked Woman & Toddler In Lavatory, Claiming They Were Terrorists
One of the more controversial aspects of flying is whether coach passengers should use the first class lavatory. American Airlines doesn’t have any rule against it on first class flights, but a woman of Middle Eastern and Latin descent Yazz Giraldo brought her three year old up from the bulkhead row of coach when he desperately had to go – and a flight attendant locked them into the lavatory. When she finally let them out she informed them they were responsible for a ‘terrorist incident’ and law enforcement met the plane.
This was all unfolding unbeknownst to the woman’s husband, also on the plane, a former FBI agent member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
JUST HOURS LEFT: Take Advantage Of Spirit Airlines Status For A Year, While Still Available
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Southwest Airlines Passenger Steals Woman’s Seat During Boarding, ‘Finders Keepers’
Southwest Airlines has open seating. You take any seat that’s available. There’s no rule against saving seats, but also nothing that says you can do it either. Basically it’s everyone for themselves. Yet there are basic, unspoken rules. Violate one of those, get the captain involved, and you’re going to be removed from the aircraft for a conversation with law enforcement.
Air New Zealand Doesn’t Have Enough Engines To Fly Its Planes [Roundup]
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Why It Costs 24 Times More To Fly To The U.S. From Haiti Than The Other Way Around
Nobody wants to fly to Haiti. Everyone wants to fly out of Haiti. And that’s making airline service to Port-au-Prince challenging. In fact it is 8 to 24 times as much to buy a ticket out of Haiti as it does to buy a flight to go there. The route is a mere 713 miles.
Delta First Class Passenger Kissed Flight Attendant, Broke Pilot’s Meal Tray After Being Denied A Cocktail
A couple of weeks ago an American Airlines first class passenger was dragged off of a flight by police after he insisted on a predeparture beverage.
A Delta Air Lines first class passenger took a different approach to being denied their pre-takeoff cocktail.