(via Jaunted)
A man was arrested at Dallas/Fort Worth airport after police found him sitting on an American Eagle jetbridge covered in salad dressing. He also didn’t notice that he was missing a shoe.
A quick investigation found that he had spent the day drinking vodka at an airport watering hole.
An Australian doctor is crusading to get airlines to implement a tax for obese passengers to offset the extra fuel it takes to carry the portly travelers. Says the doctor (without hyperbole, of course): "Flight attendants in the US have to go down the aisle handing
extension seatbelts out like headphones…And it’s
starting to happen here, too.” [...]
The OTR’s New York office is closed on Friday, so feel free to go outside and play…
Read the Rest of the Story: OTR Offices Closed on FridaySouthwest announced some pretty major changes yesterday designed to attract more business travelers to the carrier. The major points:
A new "business select" fare will be added. For an additional $10-$30, you get to board first, receive double Rapid Rewards points (on flights longer than 750 miles; 1.25 points for flights less than 750 miles), fully [...]
Book your JetBlue ticket with your American Express card by November 17 and you’ll get $25 off your trip plus you’ll receive a $25 Amex gift card The deal is good for flights taken by December 18 (with Thanksgiving blacked out).
Read the Rest of the Story: JetBlue: $25 Off and $25 Gift Card for Using AmexI came in today and found that the OTR writers had walked out in solidarity with the television writers, so there won’t be any new posts today. But following in the footsteps of the late night shows, I’ll run a repeat today. This is an oldie-but-goodie from the early days:
From the December 17th, 1798, posting [...]
(Thanks so reader Matthew for the heads up):
You may remember a recent story about a SriLankan A340 colliding with a British Airways 747 on the tarmac in London (if you don’t remember it, that’s the summary). Turns out, the SriLankan passengers on that plane are told to return to the airport the next day and [...]
An odd one: During some congressional testimony yesterday, witnesses discussed an incident in 2004 where both the pilot and the first officer of a red-eye flight from Denver to Baltimore fell asleep 45 minutes before landing. The pilot was flying his third overnight in a row.
They were awakened by "frantic" calls from air traffic control [...]
Skybus has announced that it’s launching two daily nonstop flights from New York (uh, Stewart Newburgh about an hour and a half north of Manhattan) to Columbus and Greensboro (Newburgh in January, Greensboro in February). Tickets start, as always, at $10. And no, you can’t go there and turn around on the same flight (like [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Skybus Launches Flights to New York City (ish)With Thanksgiving only a few weeks away, it’s not too late to blow off the family and head over to Europe instead. Gate1 has a bunch of good deals on travel that week: 4 Night London air/hotel packages start at $499, Budapest at $629, Florence at $599, and Paris at $569. Other cities are available. [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Not Too Late for Thanksgiving Specials to Europe