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Witnesses Describe Toddler And Mom Getting Kicked Off Continental Flight
By 7.13.07
The flight attendant’s motivation for removing the Mom and toddler is still not clear to us. Will this mystery ever end?
Should Airlines Offer More Family Friendly Flights As Well As Adults Only Flights?
By 7.12.07
All these people getting kicked off airplanes for not controlling their bratty spawn…or is it just mean airlines who hate their customers because they have babies…? We don’t know. What’s an airline to do?
Air Traffic Control Blames Errors On Pilots To Fudge Safety Reports?
By 7.12.07
Trouble In The Air [MSNBC]
Mom And Toddler Kicked Off Continental Flight For Talking Too Much
By 7.12.07
A passenger on a Continental ExpressJet flight from Houston to Oklahoma City says she was removed from the flight because her toddler would not stop repeating the phrase, “Bye, bye plane.”
Airport Scales Are Often Innacurate
By 7.11.07
Many airlines are charging travelers for having overweight bags, but a KNVX investigation found that 90% of the scales were malcalibrated. And when they accompanied an Arizona Department of Weights and Measures inspection of United Airlines scales, they found all but one to have errors.
TSA Confiscates Water Bottle, Misses Bomb
By 7.10.07
Federal inspectors were able to slip a bomb past the TSA 5 out of 7 times, according to the Albany Times-Union. Here’s the best part: One fake bomb was placed in the same bag as a bottle of water. The TSA opened the bag, took the water, and let the bomb on the plane.
By 7.10.07
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“Mileage Runners” try to get as many frequent flyer miles as possible by planning flights with as many connections as possible. [Wired via BoingBoing]
Northwest Airlines Accepts Paypal?
By 7.9.07
Northwest Airlines has announced that it will begin accepting Paypal as a payment method on its website. Why? Apparently, there is a demand for this. Stephanie Tilenius, vice president of merchant services for PayPal, said in a Northwest Airlines Press Release:
“We are excited to add Northwest Airlines, one of the world’s largest airlines, as the first airline to accept PayPal. Many of our customers already book travel with Northwest Airlines and are eager to use their PayPal accounts to do so.”
Four Questions To Ask Before Buying Travel Insurance
By 7.8.07
What Is Already Prepaid Or Nonrefundable? Know what you can realistically expect to get back.
Man Locked Out Of Hotel Room, Expedia Agrees To Completely Refund, Then Changes Mind
By 7.6.07
“A week ago, I had the opportunity to go to Chicago to teach a class. As I normally do, I booked the trip through Expedia.com. I took one of their package deals – hotel, car, airfare. Since I had never been to Chicago before, I simply selected the first hotel that came up on their rankings for the suburb in which I was staying.
Airplane Etiquette: What Should You Do When The Jerk Next To You Is Watching Porn?
By 7.5.07
PCWorld examines an interesting problem: What to do when the jerk next to you is watching hardcore porn on his laptop? Or what can be done about jerks who let their kids watch movies with no headphones? Can the airline do anything to stop jerks?
By 7.4.07
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How to watch out for and fight extra hotel fees.
How To Get Bumped By An Airline For Fun And Profit
By 7.2.07
An editor over at Jaunted has perfected a strategy for hassel-free airline bumping. We all know that we can grab some pretty nice rewards if we give up our seat on an overbooked airplane, but we’re never in a position to do so.
JetBlue: 2 1/2 Hour Flight Takes 25 Hours
By 7.2.07
-hour flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York turned into a “25-hour odyssey” for 150 passengers.
The Future Of Cruising: Botox And Data Mining
By 7.1.07
Cruise lines are sullying their heritage as the height of cultured travel by working overtime to squeeze every last penny out of passengers. Though gluttons are still sated by free meals, cruises now regularly charge for sodas, “special venue dining,” and other amenities that were once free. A recent industry convention in Miami revealed that these charges are just the tip of the iceberg.
By 6.29.07
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83 members of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir missed their scheduled performance for the Pope after their Northwest Airlines flight was cancelled due to a combination of “air-traffic control problems, weather and unusually high absenteeism among pilots.”
