The New York Times has this one:
A terminal at Kennedy International Airport was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after a man apparently used a restricted doorway, a breach that delayed dozens of flights and threw the airport into disarray as hundreds of people were rescreened, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17JFK.html
Via @ChrisLevinson
Hi there. Notice a recent change in the number of airport security issues? Yup, either the TSA is feeling starved for attention or they’ve instituted a quota system. Or the terrorists are winning. Or, or, well, yeah. Here at Flight Blog action has been taken: A new category for blog posts. That’s what you do […]
Cheap Air reports an early-January airline fare war happening — a fare war that ends in about 28 hours, so if you’re interested you had better act soon: “It’s been a see-saw start to the year fare-wise. Last week, the airlines launched a three day Air Fare Sale. Once it ended, United led […]
Six airlines of last resort on McSweeney’s.
Here’s a tale of how United Airlines made a passenger take apart their bass guitar before boarding.
After I checked in today at the airport I asked the attendant if I might have received the upgrade i asked for. Instead of just a simple no, I was suddenly told that the Bass Guitar on my […]
This story of a horrible Delta Airlines experience, in which Delta actually lies to a passenger so they can look like they’re in the right, comes from a reader (of course, this is assuming the reader’s story is true):
I booked a flight from SFO to Dublin, Ireland by way of Atlanta on Delta. I spoke […]
I’m trying out Kayak’s iphone app for flight + hotel searches. It’s easy to use — I’m pretty fast with a regular web browser, and things usually take longer to do on the iphone than they do with the non-iphone web. Not Kayak.
I’ve been using Bing Travel (formerly Farecast) for most of my cheap-flight and […]
Here’s a can-do tale of awesome from the BBC: Passenger fixes faulty airliner:
Passengers on Thomas Cook flight TCX9641 from Menorca were told to expect an eight-hour wait while an engineer was flown out from the UK.
One passenger then identified himself as a qualified aircraft engineer and offered to try to remedy the fault.
He was successful, […]
From Reuters’ article, Frustrated tweets new headache for airlines:
…airlines are discovering that fuming passengers who have been stranded, delayed or just plain piqued are increasingly letting their undiluted rage fly around the Internet, often from the confines of their cramped airplane seat.
Twitter and other fast-growing social networking websites like Facebook and YouTube have sprung […]
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