We don't recommend getting 'ATOM BOMB' tattooed across your knuckles. But if you do, watch out: L.A. food stylist Adam C. Pearson was pulled off his Delta flight and questioned because someone thought his tattoo was "suspicious." [via Running Scared]

In the wake of its most infamous employee's dramatic job walk-off in August, JetBlue's passenger traffic increased by 15 percent in September compared to last year. Maybe Steven Slater was good PR, after all?

Six passengers on a Russian airline were forced to stand in the aisles for their entire flight after the wrong airplane—one with too few seats—showed up at the airport. And no, it wasn't Southwest.

A Delta pilot was arrested today after Dutch police detected alcohol in his system.

Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of discount airline Ryanair, says he'd like to sell five-pound tickets for "vertical seats," which is a not-very-fancy way of saying, "standing up on the plane the whole damn time." [Telegraph]

More than 160 people are believed to be dead following a plane crash in India.

The worst part of being stranded at the airport due to an Icelandic volcano? It's not being trapped on the road or shut out of hotels. It's having no place to shower!

Air marshals say they stopped a man trying to "light his shoes on fire" on a United flight from D.C. to Denver. The suspect is Mohammed al Modadi, a Qatari diplomat. Update: He was actually smoking in the bathroom.

Someone in corporate PR's decidedly not enjoying their Sunday. Yesterday, Kevin Smith started Live-Twittering his experience getting kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat. It was, for the most part, pretty impressive. Update: Southwest responds.

Attack of the Wrong-Wayers! If you were naive enough to operate under the assumption that your late three-day weekend travel plans would go unmolested by assholes of both the civilian and government stripe, think again. There's been another security breach.

The TSA's looking not-so-great these days, seeing as how their uber-reactionary measures to security breaches could technically be classified as some "PT Barnum-level shit." So how do you think they react when bloggers leak their directives? Subpoenas and door-busting, naturally.

NY Sen. Chuck Schumer "regrets" and "has apologized" for snapping at a flight attendant who dared tell him to hang up on Harry Reid (while sitting next to Kirsten Gillibrand) because the plane was about to take off. [NYDN]

Ever since Bloomberg and the Port Authority executed the adorable kittens of JFK's Happy Cat Camp, unchecked terror-birds have been waging war on the city of New York. And now they are going after Mayor Mike himself.

A Continental pilot died mid-flight; Update: CNN reports the first officer safely landed at Newark.

Man, if there was ever a Senator who should not ask strangers "do you know who I am?" it is David Vitter of Louisiana. And yet, that is what he said at Dulles last week.

Stunning news: Airline workers at JFK smuggle drugs across international borders! Following a two-year federal investigation, ten airport employees, including seven Delta workers, appeared in court yesterday on charges of trafficking and distribution. Until they replace those dudes, loitering by the luggage carousel will only net you your actual bags, if you're lucky. [CNN]

"Fatal Airplane Crashes Drop 65%," says the Times. Yeah, the airline industry now prefers to kill you slowly, via cabin fever and pure, white-hot frustration. (Still bitter over missing baggage, lost seven weeks ago. In Hamburg. By BMI. In case anyone's asking.)