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Hey, future: ipads for rent on airplanes

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

I’m no Apple fanboy, and I’m no Australian either, which means I won’t be able to take advantage of Jetstar’s iPad rental service when it starts next month or whenever.

Looks like they’ll have to start teaching airplane pilots to not send text messages while landing a plane…

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Over in Australia, Jetstar Airlines is being investigated because of claims that a pilot was text-messaging while landing a plane, and because they were distracted they were forced to abort a landing attempt at an airport in Singapore.
Read the article, Pilot ‘texting during landing’, here.

Cool! A set of airline sticker photos on flickr

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Someone put together this nifty collection of photos of airline stickers — most from a long time ago. Here are the thumbnails, you can see the rest of the airline sticker photos here.

Share your complaints about Lufthansa Airlines here

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Have a problem when flying with Lufthansa? Here’s an open thread for your complaints about Lufthansa Airlines.
You can read the complaint threads for other airlines here.

Have a complaint about Virgin Atlantic Airways? Share your story here.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Want to complain about Virgin Atlantic Airways? Did something go wrong in the airport, on the runway, or with the service? Share your story here.
You can see more complaints in the Complain About Your Airline Experience series here.

Got a good story about Virgin Atlantic Airways? Something they did right? Share it here

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

If you’ve got a tail of praise for Virgin Atlantic Airways — a story about something that went right with that airline — go on and share it here.

Want to say something nice about Lufthansa Airlines? Share it here.

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Here’s an open thread for stories of praise about Lufthansa Airlines.
You can read open-praise threads for other airlines here.

Got a RyanAir complaint? Share it here, and see what complaints others have

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

It has been a while since we had a new entry in the official Flight Blog The “Complain About This Particular Airline” series, and it’s about time.
RyanAir: Have you flown them? Do you have a complaint about traveling with that airline? If so, share your story about RyanAir here.

[mnsfw] Something for the weekend: Mile High Club videos

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Here are a couple short videos about the mile high club:
RyanAir Charges for Mile High Club

Story: My Craziest Mile High Sex Experience – Princessara
My Craziest Sex Experience – Princessara – Click here for the funniest movie of the week

Cigarettes, shoe-bombs, sigh. Airline security makes national news again.

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Mohammed al-Modadi lit up a cigarette and burned himself into the annals of airline security incidents. As if breaking the no-smoking rule wasn’t bad enough, he made a joke about shoe bombs. Hi, Jack, nice to cause a nationwide scare with ya’. Ah, Qatar.
The Atlantic breaks down the al-Modadi incident in a minute-by-minute timeline here.
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