A record was broken ahead of the Memorial Day weekend for the number of airline travelers screened at U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration said Saturday. Source link
Are greedy passengers exploiting Southwest Airlines’ preboarding system? The large volume of passengers who board before everyone else is spurring concerns of abuse, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Some believe their fellow Southwest customers are falsely claiming disabilities in order to preboard. “Frequent fliers see it as a devious way to game the open-seating […]
A Florida man was arrested on Tuesday after an incident aboard an airliner that escalated after he refused to leave the plane when asked to do so. Shail Patel, 29, was eventually removed from an American Airlines plane as it sat on a Tampa runway, according to WFLA-TV. The plane was bound for Philadelphia. Patel […]
Boeing’s very public problems have continued apace since the nearly disastrous mid-air blowout one of its planes experienced on January 5 of this year. We already knew that multiple investigations were ongoing, both internally and by the government. But now the FBI has gotten involved, apparently in a very official capacity. Passengers who were on […]
There’s more bad news for Boeing. The aircraft manufacturer is either having a run of bad luck or is suffering from internal rot like so many once-iconic corporations. Maybe it’s a combination of both. Whatever the case, passengers who rely on Boeing aircraft to get from one place to another in a world where air […]
The FBI has told passengers on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max that lost a door-plug pane l in midflight that they might be victims of a crime. “This case is currently under investigation by the FBI,” an FBI victim specialist said in the letters, which passengers received this week. “A criminal investigation can be […]
A United Airlines flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey was diverted to Bangor, Maine, on Friday because drunken passengers were being physically disruptive, the airline said. “United flight 883 landed in Bangor this morning after two passengers, who appeared intoxicated, became disruptive. Law enforcement officials removed the two […]
A Delta Air Lines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was forced to turn around after luggage containing rotting fish started raining maggots on travelers. Delta Flight 133 left Amsterdam at 10:11 a.m. Tuesday, according to tracking website FlightAware. The jet made it only as far as England before doubling back. About an hour into the […]
Almost everything that gets onto a commercial plane — fuel, checked-in baggage, cargo and meals — is weighed. For passengers and their cabin bags, most airlines use average data. But Finland’s national carrier, Finnair, said Friday that it started asking passengers this week to voluntarily and anonymously hop onto a scale with their hand luggage […]
The craziness at airports around the world continues apace, but the latest incident being reported comes with a bit of a twist. It took place at the Mexico City International Airport on Friday and it probably created quite a spectacle. An Aeromexico flight to Guatemala was awaiting takeoff when a male passenger opened one of […]
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