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A Delta flight attendant noticed a toddler “needed a job,” so she put her to work. Minutes later, the pint-sized helper was marching down the aisle with a trash bag, politely asking passengers, “Trash, please” — and the whole cabin played along.
The bodycam “shoulder tap” arrest in Tampa made the rounds, but the story didn’t end there. A former Florida prosecutor tracked down the court record and the key filings, which show what happened to the case months later—and what doesn’t appear in the docket about any deal or diversion.
On December 8, a passenger parked their car at Buffalo airport short-term parking. she was only expecting it to be there overnight, for her quick trip to New York and back. The next day she boarded her JetBlue flight home from New York JFK, stowed his backpack in the overhead bin, kept Her purse as her underseat personal item, and then fell asleep before takeoff. A flight attendant removed the backpack from the overhead bin while trying to manage bin space, asks the cabin whom it belonged to, and — getting no response — assumeed it was left-behind item from the previous flight on that aircraft. So the flight attendant had the backpack taken off the aircraft. It seems odd to me that a flight attendant would think a backpack in the overhead bin was…
Bodycam footage shows a United flight attendant arrested at Tampa International Airport after a dispute on the crew bus escalated into a battery allegation over a shoulder tap. Florida law treats intentional, unwanted touching as battery—turning a petty argument over a loud phone call into a court-date arrest.
A gay Catholic United Airlines flight attendant was fired for his tweets online. He argued he was singled out and treated separately due to his specific viewpoints. His union agreed, but refused to defend him – also, he says, because they disagreed with his views. Tiwtter funded the lawsuit, and he’s gotten a settlement.
A JetBlue flight attendant turned the Thanksgiving bathroom line into something unexpected: a flying gratitude wall made of passenger napkins. Travelers wrote what they were thankful for – family, survival, second chances – and the galley filled up with handwritten notes, echoing earlier “Words From A Window Seat”-style acts of in-flight kindness.
A longtime United Airlines flight attendant was rushed to the hospital after landing in London following a transatlantic flight from San Francisco, where she had reportedly consumed multiple bottles of vodka inflight. Authorities found her ten times over the legal alcohol limit for aviation personnel.
A husband and father took to twitter to complain about a United Airlines flight attendant who ‘made’ his pregnant wife “pick up the popcorn mess” that his two year old made at their seats. This is apparently satire – United says no such incident occurred – but it raises huge etiquette questions about travel.
Bodycam from DFW captures a drunk American Airlines flight attendant rushing the gate, pants slipping, claiming “my dad’s NYPD,” before officers cuffed and carted him off in a spit hood.
A first class passenger has come forward describing how an American Airlines flight attendant barricaded herself in the galley, refused service, and called police on calm travelers — leaving officers baffled.
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 »
