Liberal Host Cenk Uygur Livestreams Himself Getting Kicked Off American Airlines Flight
Former MSNBC and Current TV host and founder of pioneering web news show The Young Turks Cenk Uygur had a bad Friday night/Saturday morning, and he shared it…
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Air France lets female crews skip Tehran flights to avoid wearing headscarves
Plane headed to NYC makes emergency landing
Air France will force stewardesses to wear headscarves on flights to Iran
Black Lives Matter activist rages after kicked off flight
An award-winning poet and Black Lives Matter activist says she was kicked off an American Airlines flight.
This is the woman a man hijacked a plane for
Alaska Airlines tests reusable electronic luggage tags
Alaska Airlines, the carrier that has tested solar-powered passenger ramps and fingerprint identification devices for passengers, is continuing to experiment.
Fla. Delta Airlines worker busted in $282G bathroom dropoff
Jean Yves Selius, a ramp agent at Palm Beach International, was arrested with the cash in vacuum sealed bundles.
Prepare For Impact Shows You How to Survive a Plane Crash or Other Airborne Emergency
American Air Co-Pilot Suspected of Attempting to Fly While Drunk
American Airlines Group Inc. canceled a scheduled flight from Detroit to Philadelphia on Saturday after a co-pilot was suspected of being intoxicated.
JetBlue beauty staying in jail until she’s sent to California
Lufthansa jet and drone nearly collide near LAX
The pilot of a commercial jetliner said his plane nearly collided with a drone while approaching Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon, sparking a search by L.A. police and sheriff’s officials for the owner of the unmanned aircraft.
FlyDubai Airliner Crashes In Russia; 62 People Killed, No Survivors
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry official says all 55 passengers and six crew members aboard a Boeing 737-800 that crashed on landing at the airport in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don have been killed.
American Airlines plane lands at JFK after lightning hit
An American Airlines plane hit by lightning made an emergency landing at Kennedy Airport Thursday.
Man accused of trying to sneak cocaine into the U.S. with cake
A man from Mexico attempting to enter the U.S. at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City was arrested after customs agents said he tried to hide cocaine in cake.
Two Muslim women removed from Jetblue flight after ‘staring’ at flight attendant
The airline said it was following safety procedures.
Baby found stuffed in passenger’s bag on airplane
Are lap infants free on Air France?
JetBlue Will Train You to Be a Pilot
This is the first program of its kind for a U.S. airline
Who wants to be a pilot?
Irish woman strips off after getting frustrated with airport security
Eimear Ni Ghiallgairrh, 29, suffered a broken bone when officers arrested her for taking off her skirt, and later hit out at ‘police brutality’
She Cast A Spell- Emma Watson Asked Where Her Guardian Was By Passport Control At JFK
After spending seven years gallivanting around England largely unsupervised with her friends while fending off the minions of He Who Must Not Be Named, you’d think Emma Watson could handle entering the United States alone. Last month, however, the 22 year old actress, best known for her role as Harry Potter’s friend Hermione Granger, was stopped…
Flying was Safer in 2012
Air fatalities worldwide are down to 23 fatal crashes in 2012, down from 28 last year, down from an average of the last decade of 34 fatal crashes per year. Those 23 crashes generated 470 fatalities, down from an average of 770 people over the last decade. The U.S. hasn’t had a fatal accident of…
US Ordering Additional Inspections of Boeing 737s
The Federal Aviation Administration said it would seek more detailed inspections for cracks on the tops of Boeing 737-300, 400, and 500 series aircraft. This is a direct result of a hole that tore open in a Southwest Airlines jet back in 2009. They will be expanding rules to include new inspection methods with scanning…
United Reservations System Unsurprisingly Crashes
In December 2010, United announcedit was leaving Apollo, the reservations system it had used for decades, to switch to HP’s Shares, which Continental used. United actually created the Apollo Reservations system in 1971. The airline evaluated Apollo, SHARES and “several other options†and chose HP SHARES as the “best customer and employee alternative and because its…
‘Suspicious Activity’ Leads To Suspension Of Operations At Chicago O’Hare’s Terminal 2
Another day, another airport shut down. Following yesterday’s evacuation of San Antonio’s airport, Chicago O’Hare’s Terminal 2 has had all operations suspended and passengers have been ordered out of the ticketing level due to ‘suspicious activity’. UPDATE(FINAL): The terminal reopened at 4PM local time. A TSA dog had identified a suspicious package which was determined…
San Antonio Airport Evacuated After Specific Threat; Bomb Dogs Have Identified Three Suspicious Cars
Both terminals at San Antonio Airport have been evacuated after a specific bomb threat was received. Passengers were removed from planes and lined up on the tarmac. Bomb-sniffing dogs have identified three suspicious cars and police are investigating their contents. UPDATE(5:03PM EST): @NYCAviation reports: UPDATE: Two of the three suspicious cars at San Antonio Airport…