There are the travel nightmares that you can walk away from after you leave the plane, and then there are those that stick with you. Literally: British Airways has apologized to a family who claim they had to endure an overnight flight while being bedeviled by bed bugs. [More]
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British Airways Passenger Claims He Had To Sit In Urine-Soaked Seat For 11 Hours
By 8.21.17
There are uncomfortable flying situations, and then there’s sitting in a urine-soaked seat for 11 hours. [More]
British Airways Outage Allegedly Caused By Someone Switching Off The Power
By 6.2.17
Over the holiday weekend, tens of thousand of travelers planning to hop their way around Europe were met with some unplanned delays after a systems outage caused British Airways’ operations to come to a screeching halt. Turns out the hundreds of canceled flights were the result of someone simply inadvertently switching off a power supply. [More]
British Airways Finally Flying Again After Major Holiday Weekend Systems Outage
By 5.30.17
Tens of thousands of travelers whose holiday weekend plans included a trans-Atlantic hop or a jaunt around Europe probably met with some unpleasantness this weekend, as an IT problem led to British Airways cancelling hundreds of flights and leaving more than 75,000 passengers in the lurch. [More]
British Airways Flight Diverted After 25 Crew Members, Passengers Become Sick
By 10.25.16 — Updated: 10.31.16
The long trip from San Francisco to London became even longer for nearly 400 passengers on a British Airways flight after the plane had to make an emergency landing when dozens of passengers and crew members became ill. [More]
Conrad Hilton Charged With Disrupting Flight After Alleged Death Threats, Smoking Pot On Plane
By 2.4.15
There are troublesome airline passengers, and then there are those who take bad behavior to whole new heights. Allegedly. According to authorities, Conrad Hilton, the grandson of the Conrad Hilton who started a hotel empire, interfered with flight crew on a British Airways flight. He allegedly spewed death threats, threw punches at crew, called fellow passengers “peasants” and smoked pot and cigarettes in a plane’s bathrooms. [More]
