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.
Here’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 [...]
File this one under United Airlines Complaints: United Breaks Guitars music video:
Note: the following came to me via email. Read with standard “hey, email forward” glasses on. I checked snopes to see if they had anything on this, they didn’t.
“REALITY” TRAVEL OPTIONS by UNITED (Not yet trademarked, but soon to show true colors!)
This is a reference to my Portland (PDX) to Buenos Aires (EZE) trip, beginning [...]
Neal Stewart, this guy I know who fills the internet’s turkey-sandwich-review niche with his Turkey Sandwich Report blog (he also writes on The Denver Post’s blogs) examines an angle of the airline wars: The airline turkey sandwich wars.
On a flight a couple months ago, I reported that United Airlines knew I was on a flight [...]
Okay, so the American Airlines complaint post is the only one that’s taken off so far, but that doesn’t mean people don’t have bad experiences with any other airline.
Got a complaint about United Airlines? Did something bad happen on your flight? Was something amiss in your air travel experience, or the booking process?
Let me tell [...]
Okay, so it’s not really official, but it is all about the praise for the good experiences (customer service, price, deals, whatever) you’ve had while flying on United Airlines. Is there something special about their frequent flier program? Share it here.
You can take a look at the rest of the Praise-The-Airlines series here.
The Consumerist blog figured out that while airlines may lie and waffle on the reasons your flight is delayed, they tell the truth to their cargo clients. And they also have a special website that tells what the reason for the delays are, for those cargo-fare folk. These are the cargo websites for the major [...]
Now who knows how many airplane pilots take naps in the cockpit. It’s joked about sure, so when it lands in the realm of printed fact it’s easy to get excited. The Rocky Mountain News published the article Pilots asleep on DIA approach today. It’s about what seems to be Frontier airlines pilots on a [...]
They call it a “consumer guide to better airline travel,” and answer such questions as:
Which are the best seats in on United Airlines? (answer)
Which first class seats are good in American Airlines? (answer)
What is the seat legroom for British Airways 747-400? (answer)
» Get more air travel tips here.
» Check out their information on seat deals, [...]