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It’s here, the holiday travel season. Think (and plan) before you fly! Martha’s top 10 travel tips. In a hurry to pack or just a lousy packer? You’ll regret forgetting items from this list. Replacements are costly, not to mention the unnecessary aggravation. Pre-program all ‘trip related’ phone numbers into your mobile phone before heading for the airport. Should your trip fall apart seconds count, you’ll be in a rush to contact the airline, hotel, ground transportation, or friends...
US Airways let man wearing women’s panties fly From SFGATE.com Six days before a college football player was arrested at San Francisco International Airport in a dispute that began because he tried to board a US Airways jet with sagging pants, a man who was wearing little but women’s undergarments was allowed to fly the airline, a US Airways spokeswoman conceded Tuesday. A photo of the scantily clad man was provided to The Chronicle by Jill Tarlow,...
SAN FRANCISCO — SF Chronicle- A dispute that began after a passenger refused to pull up his sagging pants led to his arrest and removal from a plane at San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday, police said. Deshon Marman, 20, a University of New Mexico football player who was in the city to attend the funeral of a close friend, former Lincoln High School standout David Henderson, was being held at San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of trespassing,...
New gadget enables users to block passengers from reclining airline seats during flight. From “Gadget Duck” website……… Knee Defender™ helps you stop reclining airplane seatbacks so your knees won’t have to. Unique, patented Knee Defender™ is a truly practical travel accessory. And with its new design, this clever product looks cool, too. It helps you defend the space you need when confronted by a faceless, determined seat recliner who doesn’t care how long your legs are or about anything...
Plane-iac’s foe faces 25G hit FAA: JetBlue bag lady broke a slue of rules New York Post – By Philip Messing and Doug Auer The woman whose oversize luggage sparked a tarmac tirade by a JetBlue flight attendant is in the cross hairs of federal officials mulling stiff penalties and heavy fines for her temper tantrum, authorities said yesterday. The unidentified passenger could be slapped with a fine of up to $25,000 fine for bringing down an overhead bin’s door...
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 new form of “airline ticketing” has great potential, adding millions of dollars in revenues to all airlines, with the exception of Southwest. Southwest didn’t jump...
Some folks, it seems, are just fools for travel… Rob Lovitt Travel Writer, MSNBC Contributor It’s that time of year again — time to celebrate baseball, cherry blossoms and, on this page at least, the boneheaded moves and buffoonish behavior of our fellow travelers. That’s right — it’s time for another round of Dotty Awards, the annual honorifics given to those entertaining people who pack their bags for distant adventures yet somehow seem to leave their common sense sitting...
“Five Rules for Being a Good Airline Passenger”, by Paul Eisenberg featured on FOXnews.com Flight attendants dish the dirt on what drives them crazy. If you were the world’s most frequent flier you’d likely encounter hundreds of flight attendants over the course of a year. Now consider that the average flight attendant encounters hundreds of passengers over the course of a day. Statistically that doesn’t prove much of anything. But if your job put you in contact with thousands of people...
The company ‘deadheaded’ our crew from Seattle today. For you earthlings, a “deadhead” happens when Pilots and/or Flight Attendants (must) ride as passengers to satisfy operational scheduling needs at the destination. That’s why you’ll sometimes see us occupying passenger seats while in uniform. We’re either deadheading or commuting to/from work. In either case, we’re trying our absolute best to be invisible. Any number of crew can be repositioned to start a trip from a non-base location, or to take over...
Boeing 747 Survives Simulated Flight 253 Bomb Blast 05 MAR 2010 On December 25, 2009 a passenger on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 attempted to detonate a small explosive device as the Airbus A330 was descending towards Detroit. The man was subdued and arrested after a safe landing. What damage would have been caused had the bomb exploded? A BBC Two documentary (How safe are our Skies? Detroit Flight 253) wanted to answer that question. A controlled experiment was...
