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JetBlue removes 18 month from departing flight. Reason? The toddler’s name appeared on TSA’s NO FLY list. Fort Lauderdale, FL ~ Eighteen month old Riyanna and her parents had just boarded a JetBlue flight when an airline employee approached requesting they leave the plane and return to the inside gate area. The New Jersey family was told representatives from the Transportation Security Agency wanted to speak to them…… Full story from South Florida’s WPBF.com (click here)
It’s easy to complain about rude airline passengers, but haven’t we all committed an airline etiquette faux pas at some point? Here are 10 ways to get through your next flight without alienating your fellow travelers. By Tracy Stewart, Airfarewatchdog.com Everyone loves the holidays, but before you belly up to the table for turkey and pie, you’ll have to suffer through the flight home. And while there’s not much you can do about long lines and delayed departures, there...
Fliers’ vs. Airlines’ Rights Airlines have long been able to remove disruptive passengers from their airplanes. But while in the past only fellow travelers knew what had happened, now social media exposes these disputes to a worldwide audience. In two recent cases — one involving a black football player who was removed from a US Airways flight because he refused to pull up his pants and the other involving a lesbian actress who was escorted off a Southwest flight...
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United Keeps Economy Plus, Frequent Flier Rejoice When United and Continental agreed to merge, there were a lot of decisions to be made about whether to keep legacy United policies or legacy Continental policies. One of the biggest decisions in the minds of frequent fliers was whether Economy Plus would stay or not. The word is out, and Economy Plus is staying. That noise you just heard was a collective sigh of relief from United’s frequent fliers, though I think...
Passengers mutiny on board ‘direct’ flight to Morocco after pilot says it will stop twice More than 100 plane passengers brought a new meaning to ‘in-flight turbulence’ last night after staging a mutiny when the captain announced some unscheduled stops. An aircraft operated by Moroccan budget airline Jet4You had been due to make a 90-minute journey from Toulouse, France, to the Moroccan capital Casablanca. But when the captain told the 137 passengers the plane would be stopping at Bordeaux...
Airline Baggage Charges: It’s Customer Abuse By Bill Saporito at Time.com It is my fervent wish that the airline industry, particularly the legacy carriers, becomes abundantly profitable in the not-too-distant future. It is the industry’s wish too, I dare say. The problem, as ever, is the manner in which the airlines hope to attain this elusive status — by once again sticking it to the customer. This week’s chapter involves a move by Delta, quickly copied by Continental, to raise...
New Survey Shows Consumers ‘Mad As Hell’ About Hidden Airline Fees: Two-Thirds Say They Have Been Surprised by Additional Fees at the Airport Consumer and Travel Groups Launch MadAsHellAboutHiddenFees.com, Announce “Mad As Hell Day!” on September 23rd to Give Travelers a Voice on Hidden Fees WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The Consumer Travel Alliance (CTA), Business Travel Coalition (BTC) and American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) today released the results of an online survey of 1,396 travelers showing widespread...
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 the same coach seats you’ll find in all of ‘economy’, even in United’s Economy ‘Less’ section. At American, you’re paying for location, location, location. What...
With personal space at a premium, reclining seats isn’t always OK Ed Hewitt, IndependentTraveler.com We’ve all experienced it — mere moments after you fly over your car in the airport parking lot, the seat in front of you slams at full speed into full reclining position, bashing down against your knees. The passenger then rustles around to get comfortable, thumping against your knees again and again. Or you reach down between your feet to pull out your headache medicine,...
Unite announces three weeks of BA cabin crew strikes from next week Philip Pank, Transport Correspondent More than a million British Airways passengers risk being caught up in the airline’s longest cabin crew strike after the Unite union called stoppages over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend, the school half-term holidays and the lead-up to the World Cup. The first of four five-day walkouts is due to begin next Tuesday after cabin crew rejected a peace offer from BA. Despite...
CHICAGO – Every airline passenger is entitled to overhead space, right? Wrong. On a typical domestic flight, six passengers share luggage bins that accommodate four wheeled bags, at most, leaving some fliers out of luck at a time when more of them are opting to lug their bags, rather than check them, to avoid airline fees. There are also more passengers competing for space because planes are again filled to near-record levels, the result of carriers’ capacity cuts and...
Reuters April 16, 2010 NEW YORK – The norovirus, best known for causing diarrhea and vomiting on board cruise ships, can cause problems on airplanes as well, researchers have found.On Oct. 8, 2008, a flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Chicago shortly after take off after multiple passengers suffered acute gastrointestinal illness, including vomiting and diarrhea, thought to be caused by the highly contagious norovirus. The ill passengers were members of a tour company’s New England...
By Christopher Elliot, Travel columnist msnbc.com contributor During a recent 2 1/2-hour flight from Portland, Maine, to Charlotte, N.C., Tom Meador heard nothing but crying. “The baby in the back row screamed bloody murder,” he remembers. “Its mother did everything she could think of to quiet the baby. She actually was dripping with sweat because you could tell she worried about what it was doing to the other passengers. I think she had reason to worry, too, because there...
1:00pm Sunday 21st March 2010 Hampshire Chronicle The joint leader of Unite has urged the chairman of British Airways and “sensible” board members to use their influence in a bid to resolve the bitter cabin crew dispute. Tony Woodley attacked the “macho” management style of chief executive Willie Walsh and said it was time for the airline chairman Martin Broughton and other directors to intervene. Mr Woodley said that despite “propaganda” from BA about the number of staff working...
The Daily Mail 20March, 2010 By RHIANNA KING British Airways and the Unite union have clashed over the impact of the strike action by cabin crew that has seen thousands of passengers hit by flight cancellations today. As Unite claimed that dozens of planes were stacking up at Heathrow airport as the industrial action took effect, British Airways revealed that 50 per cent of regular cabin crew had arrived for work as normal today. As a result, the airline plans...
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...
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...
New York Times March 15, 2010 Joe Sharkey LIKE most business travelers, Richard M. Owens has occasionally sat in an exit-row seat on an airplane and wondered what he would do in a real emergency. He got to find out, he told me, on a harrowing approach into Miami about five years ago. A flight attendant sidled up to him, he recalled, and asked him to follow her back to the rear galley. “She told me that, as far...
Written by Jessica Doyle, 9NEWS Now & wusa9.com WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) — We’ve heard about airline delays causes by a number of factors; mechanical issues, weather problems, traffic gridlock at the airport. But earlier this month, one DC resident and regular flier faced a type of airline delay she has never encountered before. Miami to Reagan National Airport, an American Airlines flight Alissa Kempler says she will never forget. She says “At the end of the day I think it...
WEST PALM BEACH — There are a lot of stinky feet walking through the security checkpoints at Palm Beach International Airport. So many, in fact, that the county airport managers are considering replacing the carpet. County Airports Director Bruce Pelly told an advisory board Wednesday that security officials “are complaining of odor.” “They just want the carpeting changed,” said Casandra Davis, airport spokeswoman. Airport managers are working on plans to replace much of the carpet and tile in the terminal,...
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...
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...
