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Lufthansa Airline Ordered to Pay $1,400 Over Lack of Kosher Food,Lufthansa Airline Ordered to Pay $1,400 Over Lack of Kosher Food

Lufthansa Airline Ordered to Pay $1,400 Over Lack of Kosher Food,Lufthansa Airline Ordered to Pay $1,400 Over Lack of Kosher Food (The Jewish Press,The Jewish Press)

It took years for the airline passenger to win a small claims lawsuit after the airline forgot his kosher meal.

Onboard

TSA Says Lack Of PreCheck Enrollments Has Led To Longer Security Lines

TSA Says Lack Of PreCheck Enrollments Has Led To Longer Security Lines (newyork.cbslocal.com)

Not enough people have enrolled in the Transportation Security Administration expedited screening program, leading to long security lines at airports.

Security

96-Year-Old Fulfills Lifelong Dream Of Becoming Flight Attendant

Onboard

Air France will force stewardesses to wear headscarves on flights to Iran

Airlines News

Black Lives Matter activist rages after kicked off flight

Black Lives Matter activist rages after kicked off flight (NY Daily News)

An award-winning poet and Black Lives Matter activist says she was kicked off an American Airlines flight.

News

This is the woman a man hijacked a plane for

News

Alaska Airlines tests reusable electronic luggage tags

Alaska Airlines tests reusable electronic luggage tags (latimes.com)

Alaska Airlines, the carrier that has tested solar-powered passenger ramps and fingerprint identification devices for passengers, is continuing to experiment.

News

#PlaneFails: Passengers behaving badly on airplanes

Onboard

Why This Smart Luggage Startup Thinks It Can Roll to the Top

Why This Smart Luggage Startup Thinks It Can Roll to the Top (Fortune)

Unlike its best-known competitors, it went the VC route.

Featured

Virgin America Gets Buyout Offers

Virgin America Gets Buyout Offers (Fortune)

Bidders for billionaire Richard Branson’s airline include smaller U.S.-carriers.

Airlines

American will drop 24-hour free hold on trip reservations

Airlines

Facebook adds air travel services to messenger with KLM partnership

Airlines

Delta pilots seeking 40% pay hikes

Delta pilots seeking 40% pay hikes (CNNMoney)

Delta pilots ask for pay increases totaling 40% over three years, but say that will only get them back to their 2004 wage level.

Airlines

Fla. Delta Airlines worker busted in $282G bathroom dropoff

Fla. Delta Airlines worker busted in $282G bathroom dropoff (NY Daily News)

Jean Yves Selius, a ramp agent at Palm Beach International, was arrested with the cash in vacuum sealed bundles.

News

Crestview native recalls hijacking, modeling at Eastern Airlines

History

Boom, the startup that wants to build supersonic planes, just signed a massive deal with Virgin

Planes

Prepare For Impact Shows You How to Survive a Plane Crash or Other Airborne Emergency

News

American Air Co-Pilot Suspected of Attempting to Fly While Drunk

American Air Co-Pilot Suspected of Attempting to Fly While Drunk (Bloomberg.com)

American Airlines Group Inc. canceled a scheduled flight from Detroit to Philadelphia on Saturday after a co-pilot was suspected of being intoxicated.

News

JetBlue beauty staying in jail until she’s sent to California

News

Flight attendant leaves 70 pounds of coke at TSA checkpoint

Security

Lufthansa jet and drone nearly collide near LAX

Lufthansa jet and drone nearly collide near LAX (latimes.com)

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.

News

FlyDubai Airliner Crashes In Russia; 62 People Killed, No Survivors

FlyDubai Airliner Crashes In Russia; 62 People Killed, No Survivors (newyork.cbslocal.com)

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.

News

American Airlines plane lands at JFK after lightning hit

American Airlines plane lands at JFK after lightning hit (NY Daily News)

An American Airlines plane hit by lightning made an emergency landing at Kennedy Airport Thursday.

News

Do you annoy flight attendants and fellow travelers?

Do you annoy flight attendants and fellow travelers? (dallasnews.com)

How do my fellow airline passengers annoy me? Let me count the ways. Check with your seatmate before you switch on the reading light, and the person behind you before reclining, such as it is.

Opinion

Ryanair’s New Strategy: Being Nice

“If I had only known that being nicer to our customers was good for business I would have done it years ago”

Airlines

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