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Around 3 a.m. on February 17th Justin Deemie broke into a neighbor’s apartment to steal her keys. He needed her car to flee to the airport.
He drove to the Peoria airport, tried to ram the stolen SUV into the terminal, and then “breached security to get onto a tarmac and board an empty plane.”
A drunk Ryanair passenger was yanked off a flight after threatening to stab women onboard. Ryanair flight FR4332 from Manchester to Tenerife had to return to its departure point to deal with the man. Passengers reported that he “had a bottle of whisky on the plane” and shouted at women near his seat.
Strangely Aeroflot thinks that it’s elite frequent flyers causing all the problems and not, as I’ve suggested, infrequent holidaymakers on low cost carriers drinking too much.
An Oakland sex shop is trying to open in the San Francisco airport. It’s controversial, and it’s running into a procedural snag.
I see a need for a sex shop landside, before security so you can put stuff in a friend’s carry on before they go through the checkpoint and so you can buy something to check as baggage as a standalone item.
A woman onboard United Express flight UA5449 was restrained by other passengers — one tying her feet while another held her down — after she tried to open the aircraft door midflight and announced “I am God, I am God, I am God.”
There are high wind warnings in the DC area. Gusts at National airport have been as high as 60 miles per hour.
Passengers are throwing up.
Yesterday a man jumped over a rail inside Atlanta airport’s D concourse. He was taken tot he hospital with “significant injuries.”
The video is disturbing, many of you will choose not to watch.
Whenever there’s an aircraft evacuation there are photos of passengers taking personal items out of the plane. Sometimes it’s a purse or laptop bag from underneath their seat. Other times it’s the rollaboard out of the overhead bin.
Airlines don’t want passengers onboard who will spread disease or cause a diversion. Flight crew aren’t always best-positioned to judge this, but they’re in a position where they have to. And airlines often do things out of an abundance of caution, although nearly every time you hear that phrase it’s a cover for stupidity.
Beth Evans was flying Emirates from Birmingham in the U.K. to Dubai. She told her boyfriend about her cramps. A flight attendant overheard the conversation and started quizzing her about it.
I think we may have just found the worst airline passenger ever who is going about her business oblivious to the concerns of others in the cabin. Every day passengers prop their bare feet up on the bulkhead. That’s bad enough. But it’s nothing in comparison.
This woman decided to dry her underwear using the airplane vent above her seat. She really gets ’em up in there, too. Now I know why some airlines don’t offer individual air vents.
Southwest Airlines is customer-friendly in many ways, from no change fees to not hitting customers with checked bag fees. Their employees are friendly and actually seem to like their jobs.
There’s really just one part of the company that seems to hate people, and that’s legal. They’ve been more aggressive than most airlines in going after websites that pull data from Southwest.com and make it more useful to customers.
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 »
