A story is making the rounds about a former secret service officer getting into a bit of a tiff with TSA staff at Washington National Airport.  The former officer was flying with her small child and was said to have gotten into a disagreement with security staff over whether she could bring her son’s sippy [...]

Most so-called "sales" the airlines throw are complete nonsense.  This one is not:
American Airlines has $78 and $98 round trip flights every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday through mid-November from Ft. Lauderdale and Miami to a bunch of Caribbean islands, as well as Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.  Oh, and they’re throwing in triple miles [...]

Good news if you’re flying Emirates in the next year or so:  Beginning in August, the airline will roll out new cabins in their 777s, and if you’re flying first class, you’ll be pretty happy.  First class will have 23 inch televisions, giant fully flat massage beds and personal mini-bar.  Business and coach get enhancements [...]

JetBlue is undertaking a rigorous strategic review of the airline, that could lead to the carrier selling additional aircraft and slowing down deliveries of airplanes they’ve ordered.  The impending launch of Virgin America is also lurking on the horizon, and JetBlue is wise to actually get their ship in order before this happens (which is [...]

Friendly Planet has a great deal to Israel for travel from New York for a December departure.  $999 gets you a flight and 5 nights at a good hotel in Jerusalem.  Other dates are just about $100 more.

Allow me to pass along a bit of complete geek airline humor.  See below, an un-retouched screengrab from a travel agency search for a Royal Jordanian flight.  Note the fare basis code (I told you it was airline geek humor).  Even so, funny that no one ever caught this. (click the image to view…)

(Thanks to OTR reader Hiroko):
A pilot for Vueling, a Spanish lowfare carrier, told passengers that they should pay no attention to the empty seats on half the airplane because, "we have a safety problem" but it’s nothing to worry about.  29 rows of seats on one side of the plane were taped off causing, as [...]

I know this is just a press release, but it’s pretty amazing nonetheless:  a Continental flight attendant named Norma Heape will have her 50th anniversary with the airline this week, on a flight from Newark to Hong Kong.  Pretty incredible when you consider all the upheaval in the industry (and that she’d still want to [...]

Two drug-sniffing dogs that worked in Thailand’s Chang Mai airport were fired for sexual harassment and urinating on passengers’ luggage.  I know, that sentence doesn’t make any sense.  But apparently it happened.  Passengers were complaining about the dogs’ behavior.  An airport spokesman said of Mok, one of the dogs, "Mok liked to pee on luggage [...]

An Indian passenger was awarded nearly $6,000 for mental anguish after he was served chicken on a Malaysia Airlines flight.  The passenger, a vegetarian (obviously), "experienced depression, shock, stress and humiliation" and vomited after being served the chicken.  Isn’t this is roughly the same experience we all have after eating airline chicken? (have I been [...]