Quick travel tip for you: Do not harass your flight attendant when you go to Dubai. A Russian doctor will be deported from Dubai after he was found guilty of molesting an Azerbaijani flight attendant on a trip from Moscow to Dubai. He reportedly grabbed the woman, then offered to pay her to have sex [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Doctor Deported from Dubai for Molesting StewardessThis is an odd one: A man died at Vancouver Airport after police tasered him during a rather heated confrontation. The passenger, who spoke a language that no one recognized (which is weird on its own, though I suppose if he were speaking Albanian, who would know?) went into a rage for an unknown reason, [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Man Dies at Vancouver Airport After Being TaseredYou’ve probably seen it elsewhere, but Boeing announced that it will be 6 months late delivering the new 787 - launch customer ANA now expects to see the aircraft next December. The bigger miracle is that new planes are ever delivered on time considering how complex it is to design a new airplane.
…and on a [...]
The former head of Garuda Indonesia is on trial for murdering an activist by feeding him an arsenic-laced meal during a flight. The activist had ordered the low-arsenic meal, and the rest is now history.
Read the Rest of the Story: Airline Meal Used to Feed, Kill, PassengerI’m not sure I’ve ever seen an airline introduce flights solely to piss off another government, but here we go: Venezuela’s state airline, Conviasa, has launched flights to Iran, via Syria, from Caracas. Iran’s national airline, strangely, also launched service from Iran to Caracas, via Syria, last spring. Must be a lot of demand for [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Venezuelan Airline: Screw You, USA!A Southwest Airlines employee was reprimanded after he asked a passenger to change his t-shirt because he thought it was offensive. A Southwest spokesperson said that the airline did not have a dress code, so the passenger should have been permitted to fly.
Oh, the shirt? It had a drawing of a fisherman on it [...]
Thanks to this anonymous tip from an OTR reader:
Check out this 1989 British Airways ad here, then see the new Silverjet TV spot here. Very, very clever.
Slow news day in airlineville, but I thought I’d just pass along a quick story a friend/reader/Pearl Custom Publishing Award Winner told me:
Flying from DC to Atlanta on AirTran, and the pilot says that they’ll be delayed because of a mechanical issue that will cause them not to be able to pressurize the plane. The [...]
(Thanks to View from the Wing for this):
Most airlines offer frequent flyer awards that let you fly on any flight if you use double the normal number of miles. Delta is no longer one of those airlines. The carrier will now open up an additional number of seats if you pay double the price, but [...]
US Airways has been trying to get out of Pittsburgh gracefully for some time now (but they keep pulling me back in!), but it looks like the nail is in the proverbial coffin: the carrier announced that it will shrink mainline service from 31 daily flights at the airport down to 22, and regional affiliate [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: US Airways Shrinks Pittsburgh Even Further