“Check-in chicken” is the idea of not checking in for your flight 24 hours in advance – and instead waiting until much closer to departure.
This benefits you if you don’t have a seat assignment because you aren’t eligible to get one in advance, or don’t want to pay for one of the better seats in a cabin but you’d still like a better seat.
A Ryanair flight from East Midlands, UK, to Tenerife was forced to make an expedited landing on November 4 when an unruly passenger behavior urinated in the cabin aisle. Flight FR3152’s 4.5 hour journey went off the rails as several passengers became disruptive – and one became messy.
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A 27-year-old flying from Manchester Airport in the U.K. to Lisbon was wrongfully charged $62 (£48) for a carry-on bag even though it fit in his airline’s baggage sizer at the gate. He recorded video about the incident that’s been viewed over 5 million times.
The truth is that children can often be better behaved than adults, that whether children cry or act out is often a function of how the parents prepare and react, and also that some kids are just easier to travel with than others.
However, here are 11 things we do that make travel go so much more smoothly, keep kids happy, and leave other passengers breathing a sigh of relief.
A passenger was restrained by crew and other flyers on Copa Airlines flight 208 from Brasilia to Panama City after attempting to open an emergency exit door approximately 30 minutes prior to arrival. He was reportedly brandishing a plastic knife taken from his meal tray.
The disturbance began when the man grabbed a flight attendant and attempted to use the plastic knife to take her hostage while making his way toward the exit. Another flight attendant attempted to intervene but struggled to restrain him due to his strength. Other flight attendants began to scream.
TAP Air Portugal is offering sextuple status miles. It’s the sixth anniversary of the TAP Miles&Go, and they’re offering 6x status miles on all bookings made at flytap.com by November 10, 2024 for travel through November 5, 2025, across all TAP routes.
When you’re last to board you have few options for comfort anyway. You might as well make the most of your seat choice.
In the spite play, you target passengers you believe are violating social norms and punish them by sitting next to them. You can sit next to the one putting crumpled tissues on the middle seat, or avoiding eye contact hoping you won’t sit there – and reward the passengers who don’t do that.
As of this writing, CLEAR (Clear Secure Inc., NYSE: YOU) shares are down 20% this morning after the company revealed that new signups were down to a trickle. Ultimately the paradox of CLEAR is that the more they grow, they less successful they become.
Here’s an inspiring story that comes from a Rabbi stranded at the Tel Aviv airport when a Hezbollah rocket struck the airport grounds on Wednesday.
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 »
