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Hamilton Nolan · 01/06/14 03:09PM
Travel Is For the Birds: Let's All Just Stay Put This Christmas
Ken Layne · 12/10/13 05:07PMThousands of canceled flights and endless dreary delays awaited Americans who attempted to travel by passenger jet during this never-ending arctic monster storm, proving once again that none of us have any common sense at all. Why do we bother? Because we have been brainwashed to accept daylong episodes of prison-style abuse, as long as we eventually land somewhere else.
Airlines Are Purposely Shrinking Seats to Make You Miserable
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Lacey Donohue · 09/26/13 08:27PM
A Federal Aviation Administration committee recommended Thursday that passengers be allowed to use smartphones, iPads, Kindles, etc., during takeoffs and landings as long as they're switched to airplane mode. It's now up to FAA officials to accept—and it's largely expected they will—the committee's recommendations.
Hamilton Nolan · 06/06/13 08:28AM
If You Pay $30 to Not Carry Your Own Luggage, You Should Be Taxed Into Penury
Hamilton Nolan · 08/07/12 02:54PMAlaska Airlines to Stop Handing Out Prayer Cards; God Fired as Copilot
Caity Weaver · 01/25/12 06:39PMLuxury Airline Flight Stops Halfway to Take Up Collection for Gas
Hamilton Nolan · 11/17/11 04:51PMWorld's Worst Idea: Porn on Planes
Brian Moylan · 11/08/11 05:10PMWoman Sues Airline Over Turbulent Flight
Brian Moylan · 10/12/11 12:48PMMuslim Woman: Southwest Booted Me After Flight Attendant Thought I Said 'It's A Go'
Remy Stern · 10/10/11 10:25PMSex Scandalized Airline Cancels Ill-Timed Ad Campaign
Jeff Neumann · 08/15/11 07:25AMHong Kong-basd airline Cathay Pacific on Friday said that two of its employees who were "shown in compromising situations" — read: having fun with a camera in the cockpit — were "no longer employees of the company." Well, fair enough. If you take oral sex pics in your place of work and they somehow leak (not judging!), you sort of deserve to be let go if you're in the service industry. But Cathay Pacific didn't stop there. As part of the airline's attempt to clean up its stained image, an advertisement campaign called "People and Service" was cancelled yesterday. What's so bad about that? Oh, the slogan, which claims that Cathay Pacific is "the team who go the extra mile to make you feel special." Yeah, good call canceling that one.
No Planned 9/11 Anniversary Specials, Says JetBlue
Seth Abramovitch · 07/31/11 10:39PMCorporate Twits is an internet jokester whose shtick is to send prank tweets to corporate Twitter accounts, then post their responses to his Tumblr. Usually, they are very friendly and apologetic (like this exchange between Applebees and a supposedly obese woman who was reserved service). But a bad-taste tweet to JetBlue about 9/11 anniversary specials went a little too far in the friendly direction, earning a bizarrely sincere response from the airline. So, stay posted, I guess?
Southwest Pilot Accidentally Broadcasts Misogynistic, Homophobic Rant
Brian Moylan · 06/22/11 05:46PMA Southwest Airlines pilot has been suspended after he accidentally broadcast his conversation about the "fags" and "grannies" that he works with as flight attendants. This man should really never be allowed to fly a plane again.
Half-Hour Brawl Breaks Out on British Airplane
Brian Moylan · 06/10/11 02:33PMAirlines Test Our Limits With Another Fare Hike
Richard Lawson · 04/08/11 02:32PMFive major US airlines — AirTran, Delta, US Air, Virgin America, and JetBlue — have all recently raised (or will soon raise) their domestic round-trip airfare by $10. They say the hike was implemented as a way of countering rising jet fuel costs, but clearly it's just another example of the airlines taking us for a ride. (Figuratively. I understand that they already do literally take us for a ride.) How much more fare-raising will we stand before we resort to the old ways of the locomotive or a weary resignation that we'll just never see California? [AP, image via Shutterstock]
Air Traffic Controller Brought Blankets for Work Naps
Jeff Neumann · 04/07/11 04:20AMRemember the air traffic controller who fell asleep at the controls on the graveyard shift in DC last month, forcing a pilot to land a passenger jet on his own? Well, there seems to be somewhat of a pattern developing here: FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt testified at a congressional hearing about the incident yesterday, and said that in February an air traffic controller at Knoxville, Tennessee's McGhee Tyson Airport was "found intentionally sleeping" on the job. And the best part? He brought pillows and a cushion with him!