Category: Passenger Do’s & Don’t’s

Oh No He Didn’t. Oh Yes She Did!

Man Unhappy, Airline Crew Refused to Examine Ball-Sack

Man Sues Airline for not Looking at His Scrotum By JEAN-PHILIPPE ARCAND, QMI Agency (Toronto Sun) MONTREAL – A Westmount resident’s lawsuit against Air Transat, for failure to provide him with appropriated medical attention during a flight, was dismissed in small claims…

The Subject “Airline Recycling” Revisited

CNN — 03/03/2010  Mark Ashley watches with a weary eye whenever flight attendants walk up and down the aisles of a plane to collect the trash on his flights. Items that he would normally separate for recycling at his home…

In-flight Recycling, Please Do Whatever You Can

Airline Companies, please do more Delta, Virgin, Southwest Top Airline Recycling Report Card Although the U.S. airline industry generates more than 880 million tons of waste annually, only a small percentage is recycled, according to a new report. Delta, Virgin America,…

Inflight Suppositories and First Class Face Peel

Flying yesterday DEN-MIA, I worked the first class cabin. We had an elderly (and rather lively) couple seated in 1C&D. Early on I noticed the unmistakable foil packaging (3-pack) of suppositories placed on the armrest console between the seats.  I don’t know why, but I do…

Stinky Flyer and All That Jazz

Smelly Passenger Removed From Plane, CBC News          Wednesday, February 17, 2010         An American who hoped to travel on a flight from Charlottetown to Montreal earlier this month was removed from the plane because he smelled.     ‘The safety and comfort of…

Take a Number, Avoid a Line

Prior to arriving at the airport, be sure to have the airline’s toll free reservation number entered into your mobile phone ‘contacts’ list.  Or dial in the number and push “call”, ending it as soon as the call is engaged.  The number will then be registered on your call history, and at…

Keys to a New Lexus, or Wet Used Kleenex?

 Just what are you handing me?  On all flights, passengers aggressively try handing over a wide range of items they no longer wish to keep at their seats.   These hand-outs will frequently pop out at us when we least expect them, while at the gate, during boarding, taxi…

Always Wear Shoes When Standing in Pee

Newsflash…..  airplane bathrooms are disgusting.  Would you wear only your socks when “dropping the kids off at the pool“, let’s say in a public bathroom at Grand Central Station?  I don’t think so.  Why on earth do flyer’s think it’s okay to wear only socks, or…