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Pilot sentenced for marketing drug-masking product By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A former commercial airline pilot was sentenced to nine months in prison this morning for selling a product online designed to mask drugs in a person’s urine to beat drug tests. Stephen Sharp, of Port Orange, Fla., operated the website, yourintheclear.com and...
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Be sure to click the link at the very bottom for an earlier story about how the kids were cared for by good Samaritan vacationers and hotel staff. Jessie (14) and brother Dan Molitor (17) were on vacation in Hawaii with their aunt. It took the family nearly 24 hours to change airline flights...
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We’re about to crash, jet passengers told in error ‘They said the pilot hit the wrong button’ LONDON — British Airways apologized on Friday after a crew member mistakenly played an emergency message warning Hong Kong-bound passengers that the plane they were on was about to plunge into the sea. About 275 passengers on...
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Ex-Delta Flight Attendant Wants Job Back By George Franco, MyFoxAtlanta.com ATLANTA – A former Delta flight attendant was busted in Indianapolis with a gun in a carry-on bag. Amber Robillard talked about her ordeal Thursday and said she hopes to get her job back. In June, Robillard was arrested in Indianapolis for a pistol...
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New Express Seats on American Airlines. Pay a fee for the early ‘board’ special! American Airlines new ‘Express Seats’ are similar to United’s ‘Economy Plus’, only without the ‘plus’. But you still pay a fee. Yes, even without the plus. Like United, American’s special seats aren’t really special at all. On both carriers, they’re...
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The Consumerist by Chris Walters Angel says she hadn’t had any alcohol before getting on her Southwest Airlines flight last week, but for some reason the flight attendant decided–after first taking her order–that she felt “uncomfortable” serving Angel her vodka and Coke. Last Monday, I flew on Southwest Flight #196 from Phoenix to Baltimore....
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Rochdale man ‘took 200 fireworks on US plane’ BBC News- Manchester An airline passenger claims he was allowed to take more than 200 fireworks on two flights in the United States. Paul Jones, 29, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, flew across the US from Kansas to Houston and back to the UK with a bag...
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Kids Fly Solo to Nashville, Parents Want Answers Trio of Kids, Oldest 15, Fly to Nashville Alone, Never Stopped By Airline or TSA By STEVE OSUNSAMI and BRET HOVELL, ABCNews.go.com Aug. 13, 2010 — It must’ve been an idle day for three youngsters Tuesday when one had a novel idea: Let’s go to Dollywood. The...
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Sometimes the weird news is about us… From JetBlue’s Blog~ Blue Tales It wouldn’t be fair for us to point out absurdities in other corners of the industry without acknowledging when it’s about us. Well, this week’s news certainly falls into that category. Perhaps you heard a little story about one of our flight attendants?...
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Fed-Up Flight Attendant is Out of Jail, Says He is Appreciative NBC New York, by TIM MINTON, JONATHAN DIENST, PEI-SZE CHENG and HASANI GITTENS A flight attendant who was arrested after arguing with a passenger on a JetBlue flight – making  a grand exit from the aircraft by grabbing some beers and pulling the emergency chute — posted $2,500 bail and...
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NY judge grants bail for angry flight attendant By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A judge granted bail for a flight attendant accused of cursing out a passenger on an airplane public-address system, grabbing some beer from the galley and exiting on an emergency slide. Steven Slater wore a slight smile...
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Flight Attendant Uses Emergency Slide to Escape Dispute Updated, 3:49 p.m. | A JetBlue flight attendant apparently upset with an uncooperative passenger on a just-landed flight unleashed a profanity-laden tirade on the public-address system, pulled the emergency-exit chute, slid off the plane and fled Kennedy International Airport, a law enforcement official said. The dramatic getaway...
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Turkish Airlines Tells Staff to Shed Weight The Media Line Staff Turkey (TML) – Turkey’s national airline has grounded 28 of its flight attendants until they lose some weight. Turkish Airlines told 13 female and 15 male flight attendants that they have six months to lose weight or face reassignments, according to Turkish media....
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Should passengers speak up? Was Delta correct removing her from the flight? Unfairly bumped? by Toni Guinyard (KNBC) TOLUCA LAKE, CA (NBC) – A California woman was recently kicked off a Delta Airlines flight after reporting that she thought she had smelled alcohol on the Captain’s breath. Cynthia Angel said the incident occurred on July...
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Spirit Airlines’ Next Fee? Talking to a Human Expect More Fees But CEO Rules Out Charge to Use the Bathroom By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ Aug. 3, 2010— Just when you thought airlines couldn’t get any stingier, the CEO of Spirit Airlines said he is considering a new fee to talk with a human at the...
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By Martha Stewardess Enough with the discussion and complaints about airline fee’s. They’re here to stay. Let’s accept being “unbundled” and move forward. The *new* Airline Ticket – airline & flight attendant revenue I want to start issuing citations to passengers. We’ll call these citations “Airline Tickets” since airline bookings are now “ticketless”. This...
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Passenger Lodges Airline Complaint on YouTube While Sweating on the Tarmac PHOENIX – Imagine sitting a plane on the tarmac with no air conditioning for 3 hours in 100 plus Phoenix temperatures. That’s what one passenger says happened to him on Sunday. The passenger from Scottsdale was on his way to Atlanta. He became...
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Petite passenger booted from Southwest flight Southwest Airlines made headlines earlier this year for kicking overweight actor-director Kevin Smith off a flight because he took up more than one seat. Now we’re hearing the airline recently removed a 5-foot-4, 110-pound Sacramento-area woman from a plane so a hefty passenger could have an extra seat....
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Air steward ‘terror’ rage By JANON FISHER, NY Post A flight attendant with a short fuse threatened to unleash jihad on American Airlines after it fired him for hurling a coffee pot at a stewardess, the feds charged yesterday. Rodney Lorenzo, 45, mailed letters to top airline executives with “Boom!!” written on the envelopes,...
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United Airlines Gives Passengers ‘Walk of Shame’ A US airline is accused of kicking off passengers who paid the cheapest tickets in an attempt to reduce the weight of the aircraft. United Airlines removed 20 people from the flight from Burlington to Washington, a passenger said. The event was reported on Twitter by @brucepoontip who...
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Airlines Charge Extra For Roach Coach Food? USA Today Reporting: Inspectors find safety flaws where airline food is prepared Six months ago, Food and Drug Administration inspectors say, they found live roaches and dead roach carcasses “too numerous to count” inside the Denver facility of the world’s largest airline caterer, LSG Sky Chefs. They...
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Tiny turtle causes taxiing plane to return to gate By Kate Brumback, Associated Press ATLANTA — A caged, 2-inch turtle traveling with a 10-year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them they couldn’t bring their pet along. The sisters...
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Unbelievable. I had to see it to believe it too.   Spirit.com BOYCOTT Spirit Airlines!
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The Twist: Alaska Airlines Will Give You $20 (credit) if Your Checked Bag Does NOT Reach the Carousel in 20 Minutes. Alaska Airlines passengers will be subject to new baggage fees starting Wednesday. Customers checking one bag will be charged $20 per bag — $5 more for the first bag than previously charged, but...
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Well, they didn’t really “lose” the door. It’s still in the jetway. Deplaning didn’t go smoothly Tuesday morning for an American 777. Apparently, an American Airlines flight arriving at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport lost its door in a Terminal D jetbridge. The aircraft pulled up to the terminal around 6:20 a.m. and docked with the jetbridge....
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An Utter Lack of Spirit. Spirit has operated as the P.T. Barnum of airlines—management believes there’s a bargain-hunting sucker born every minute—but its reaction to a pilots’ strike appalls even the most cynical airline-industry observers. And now for something completely similar: An airline behaving badly. Because it is small, you may not have heard...
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Texas Woman Told She Needed To Buy Two Seats To Board, Despite Flying Airline Without Problems Before Ft. Lauderdale- Southwest Airlines is apologizing to one of its passengers over a flight restriction. Was she too fat to fly? The passenger said she was not allowed to board a plane because of her size. The...
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WishTV8 Update Report Indianapolis – Police have released more details in the arrest of a flight attendant who was carrying a handgun in her bag last week. Amber Robillard, 39, is charged with carrying a handgun without a license and entering a controlled area of an airport with a weapon. Case records show Robillard told...
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~Updated with news footage~ Kristi E. Swartz, Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Delta Air Lines flight attendant preparing to board a plane bound for Atlanta was arrested after authorities found a handgun in her purse. Amber Robillard, who lives in Atlanta, was stopped at the Transportation Security Administration security screening checkpoint at the Indianapolis airport and...
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By Scott Mayerowitz | ABCNews.go.com The name of international terrorist and fugitive Al Qaeda boss Osama Bin Laden has surfaced in an unlikely spot, and apparently he’s flying British Airways first class to Washington. It seems that somebody in London with a bad sense of humor is causing the U.K. airline a bit of...
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