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![American Airlines Bloodies Baggage?](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/bag2.jpg?w=165&h=131&crop=1)
American Airlines Bloodies Baggage?
A Maryland woman claims her luggage was ‘covered in blood’ when she retrieved it from the carousel.
![JetBlu’s Planes No Longer Delayed, Just Red](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/departures.jpg?w=300&h=225&crop=1)
JetBlu’s Planes No Longer Delayed, Just Red
Gawker Media’s Honorary-and-Most-Valuable-Unpaid-Employee, sent in this pic:
![Southwest and the Airtravel Realities We’re Ignoring](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/tran.jpg?w=200&h=133&crop=1)
Southwest and the Airtravel Realities We’re Ignoring
Steve reminds us why we love our readers by penning a nice and cogent op-ed on why “the current low fares are going to run one or two of the legacy carriers into liquidation.”
![Northwest to Charge an Arm for Legroom](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/themile.jpg?w=150&h=185&crop=1)
Northwest to Charge an Arm for Legroom
Northwest Airlines is rolling out a program to charge a bit more for extra stretch space.
![Why Airport Metal Detectors Won’t Pick Up Bullets](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/lilbullet.jpg?w=100&h=145&crop=1)
Why Airport Metal Detectors Won’t Pick Up Bullets
d be something the metal detector would pick up.”
![Lone Bullet Empties Airplane](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/bullet.jpg?w=175&h=128&crop=1)
Lone Bullet Empties Airplane
Passengers were removed from an Alaskan Airlines flight after a bullet was found in the cabin.
![Delta Encourages Profitable Drunkeness At Sober Customers’ Expense](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/hiifp.jpg?w=150&h=225&crop=1)
Delta Encourages Profitable Drunkeness At Sober Customers’ Expense
1st class on Delta can be a trip to hell in a flying handbasket, as Mike writes. He got seated next to a drunken lush whom the stewardesses only plied with more and more wine. Mike (pictured) came back from hitting the head to find his seatmate had splooged wine all over his iPod and Bose headphones and seat.
![Screaming Virgin Stewardess Ends in Group Vomit](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/stewardess.jpg?w=175&h=186&crop=1)
Screaming Virgin Stewardess Ends in Group Vomit
The BBC, in its inimitable dry British humor, reports a “Probe Into ‘Panicking’ Stewardess.”
Airplanes Still Not Gameboy – Proof
In the immortal words of Erik Wolpaw, “isn’t it about time somebody at NASA finally got around to Gameboy-proofing these fucking jets?”
![American Airlines Blames the Victim](../../../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/bigcrash.jpg?w=300&h=225&crop=1)
American Airlines Blames the Victim
Brad tried to board his American Airline flight only to be told he was already in the air and would have to purchase another ticket. When he refused, the boarding agent accused him of stealing.
American Airlines Indifferent to Haitian Aid Group; Please Sir, Can I Have Some More Worms?
A humanitarian aid group en route to Haiti suffered from a scheduling change made by American Airlines and had to pay $450 in hotel bills. American Airlines (AA) refused to offer hotel vouchers in return.
Consumers Speak: jetBlue’s Boston Boomerang
This is a special ‘Consumers Speak,’ as the consumer is us. We’re currently sitting on a jetBlue flight at Logan Intl’ in Boston. We arrived here at 4:00 for a 6:20 flight.