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Tampa International Airport just sparked controversy by tweeting that it wants passengers to stop wearing pajamas. But can an airport actually enforce a pajama ban? It’s legally dubious, and drawing backlash online.
Tampa’s layout has three similarly oriented runways across the bay, and pilots have been mixing them up for decades. Modern navigation should prevent this, but visual approaches still depend on human pattern-matching—exactly where things went wrong here.
Delta will be the anchor tenant for the new D terminal in Tampa, including a new Sky Club that is at least 18,000 square feet. Terminal design is at 30% completion, and is expected to be 60% done by May. The Sky Club will have back-of-house spaces for kitchen and storage, as well as an optional direct connection to one gate. Delta will receive at least six preferential-use gates in close proximity to the Sky Club. They will relocate from existing facilities to the new terminal within 90 days of notification that the new spaces are ready. Delta Sky Club Bar at LAX In addition to the gates, Delta will lease approximately 27,000 square feet of support and operations space near the gates. The club lounge lease is for 5 years, with options for three…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 came within 150 feet of the water while still 3 miles out from Tampa airport. Flight 425 from Columbus diverted to Fort Lauderdale.
American Airlines flight 590 from Tampa to Phoenix was preparing to take off this morning when tires on the right main gear burst. The pilots rejected takeoff at a speed of around 150 knots and vacated the runway at the last turnoff. A fire ensued and after several minutes fire crew responded.
The fastest way down to baggage claim, though, if you’re in a hurry is to go through the ceiling. At least that’s what one man discovered at the Tampa airport. He “fell through the ceiling and landed in [Southwest Airlines] baggage claim” on Monday evening, according to a passenger who reported witnessing the event.
Before the pandemic American Airlines served 8 routes from Austin, flying to its hubs. They’ve quadrupled their destinations since then and passengers are using the airport for connections in a major way as well.
In any employee meeting American’s Vice President of Network Planning dropped two other cities they’re thinking about as having similar characteristics to Austin.
JetBlue flight 1151 from Tampa to San Juan was delayed yesterday, and one passenger just wasn’t going to take it. He “took down his pants.”
The passenger, who had a “rottweiler mix service dog” with him, “threatened to kill a gate agent” and assaulted a police officer — all over a 53 minute delay.
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