It doesn’t look good for Mexicana Airlines. According to their website:
Grupo Mexicana suspends flights until further notice
Current management received the company in a state of technical bankruptcy seven days ago after it filed for protection under Mexico’s insolvency laws
Financial deterioration and lack of agreements force Grupo Mexicana to stop flying
Grupo Mexicana deeply regrets any inconvenience [...]
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.
Ever thought about taking your sex toys with you on an airplane? The San Francisco Chronicle put together this excellent guide about handling sex toys and air travel and luggage. Here’s a sample:
If you’re one of the 500,000 (half a million!) people traveling to San Francisco for this year’s Pride Parade, before you [...]
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
Over in Europe right now they’re getting ready for the Monday morning work shift. Many employees will be calling in sick, on account of Iceland’s volcanic ash.
Here’s what some people who are attempting to make it back to Britain in time are doing:
“Meanwhile, men in business suits and carrying briefcases were walking up and down [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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, [...]
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