A legitimate reason to switch to United: The airline now sells upgrades to Economy Plus at the time you book your flight. One-way upgrades that get you about 5 inches more legroom start at $14 for short-haul and go up to $104 each way for LAX-Tokyo (a steal). After you sit 15 hours in Continental’s [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: United (Finally) Sells Economy Plus UpgradesA family traveling to Winnipeg from Manila mistakenly left their 2-year old at Vancouver airport during a connection. Each parent thought that the child was with the other parent, and none of the family members noticed that the child was not with any of them when they boarded their flight to Winnipeg (when you read [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Family Forgets 2-Year Old at AirportActor Dennis Farina was arrested at LAX after he tried to pass through security with a loaded gun in his luggage. Farina, a former cop, said he forgot that the loaded gun was in his carry-on (he forgot where one of his loaded guns was?) Oh, and it turns out the gun wasn’t registered. He [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Dennis Farina Arrested at Airport with Gun in LuggageA quick follow-up on my question yesterday about how to handle an issue I had with Travelocity:
I could not be happier with the resolution. Travelocity responded quickly to my emails to them and re-booked my tickets at the original fare.
I received a number of emails from readers lamenting the poor customer service situation at a [...]
Some schmuck was arrested on a Southwest flight from Austin to Dallas after he repeatedly refused to turn off his cell phone in flight. After a flight attendant asked him to get off the phone, he turned to her and said, “Kiss my ass.” He was cited for disorderly conduct.
Read the Rest of the Story: Passenger Arrested for Using Cell Phone on FlightSomething about this is extremely fishy:
A man is suing JetBlue because, he says, he was forced to spend most of a flight from San Diego to JFK sitting on a toilet. The passenger wanted to get on the flight but was told that there were no seats available. He says a flight attendant offered to [...]
I need a little bit of help with a Travelocity problem I’m having, and I’m curious if anyone who reads the OTR has had a similar issue and how it was resolved:
Short version: I booked a Spirit Airlines ticket on Travelocity ($21 all-in for LaGuardia to Ft. Lauderdale - nice!). The next day [...]
This should be a movie:
On February 1st a group of tourists from Ghana arrived in Barbados for a two week holiday. Their flight on Ghana International Airlines was to depart on February 15th. It did not show up. The 61 Ghanaians waiting for the flight were unable to simply take the next [...]
Isle of Man-based airline EuroManx has announced it is shutting down its operations because of fuel, blah blah blah. Using two Dash-8 turboprops, the airline served Belfast City, Liverpool, London City and Manchester from the Isle of Man.
Read the Rest of the Story: EuroManx to Stop Flying (This Won’t Affect You)A Delhi consumer court has ordered Air Deccan to pay about $1,600 to a family who missed a wedding because their flight from Delhi to Bagdogra was canceled due to bad weather. The airline says that the cancellation wasn’t their fault, but the court said they did not prove the weather was bad in Bagdogra. [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Airline in India to Pay Fine for Causing Passenger to Miss Wedding