Posts Tagged ‘ flight ’

Let’s Hear It For The Boys! Cebu Male Safety Dance Debut

October 8, 2010
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Cebu Pacific dancing flight attendants: now it’s the men’s turn Philippines airline Cebu Pacific scored a viral video hit when their female flight attendants performed a Lady Gaga dance routine during the safety demonstration – so now the airline have the male flight attendants doing it too. The stewardesses became an online sensation after the video of them performing a dance routine to Gaga’s hit Just Dance gained over seven million views on YouTube. But the budget airline faced a...

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Lindsay Lohan in a Pickle Without a Passport

May 20, 2010
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Judge issues warrant for Lindsay Lohan’s arrest By Sandy Cohen AP Entertainment Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A judge issued a warrant Thursday for Lindsay Lohan’s arrest after the actress missed a mandatory hearing. Bail was set at $100,000. The 23-year-old actress was due in court for a progress report on her probation stemming from two arrests in 2007. Her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, said Lohan’s passport was stolen while she was at the Cannes Film Festival and was...

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Air Canada Dismisses Crew Concerns About Suicidal Pilot

March 19, 2010
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The Canadian Press Friday Mar. 19, 2010 TORONTO Air Canada is standing by a pilot at the centre of a bizarre incident two years ago in which co-workers refused to fly with him, fearing he was suicidal and accusing him of threatening to ditch his aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean. The airline insisted Thursday that the eyebrow-raising circumstances emanating from a dispute aboard a Toronto-Paris flight in July 2008 amounted to nothing more than a minor conflict between staff and...

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Flightmare: LAX To JFK Flight Takes 16 Hours, Chips Rationed

March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010 New York Post, by JEREMY OLSHAN They were supposed to be taking a direct flight from LAX to JFK — but wound up on a 16-hour nightmare tour by air and bus of New York state. Before finally arriving at their destination, the starving passengers of jinxed Virgin America Flight 404 had been stranded on a tarmac for seven hours and forced to ride a bus for another 2½ hours. At one point, food supplies aboard...

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Ukraine Cockpit and Cabin Crew 10 Times Over the Legal Limit

March 10, 2010
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Pilots and Flight Attendants removed from Ukraine flight for being drunk. Uzbekistan News.Net Wednesday 10th March, 2010 Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main carrier. During the week, police were ordered to prevent a plane from taking off with a drunken crew. The pilots and cabin crew on the Ukrainian airline Donbassaero were found to be at least ten times over the legal limit. The inland flight was due...

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Air India Operates All-Female Crews on Select Flights, Int’l Women’s Day

March 8, 2010
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In1936, Sarla Thakral, a 21-year-old married woman with a four-year-old daughter, soared into the sky. In the cockpit of a Gypsy Moth, dressed modestly in her saree, Sarla’s flight into the firmament landed her a place in history. She became the first Indian woman to fly. Sarla’s husband and her father-in-law helped her achieve the ambition. CHENNAI: As part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, Air India operated an all-women crew flight on select sectors in international and domestic...

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