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A Few Stories to Note…
Mar 17th, 2010 | By Jared Blank
A few stories have passed by in the last couple of days that I thought were worth noting:
- Continental announced that it will give up its free food in coach (and, blessedly, stop running this incredibly awful ad) on domestic flights under 6 hours. There has been a decent amount of discussion in ye olde [...]
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Roaches Delay Plane by 90 MinutesMar 16th, 2010 | By Jared Blank
An American Airlines flight from Miami to Washington Reagan was delayed by 90 minutes last month after crew found a roach colony living on board the aircraft. Staff found a small colony of about 50 roaches living in a space between first class and the coach cabin. Apparently, they were unable to get a full [...]
Read moreCaptain Oveur Passes Away; RIP, Peter Graves – You Will Alwys be Over Dunn
Mar 14th, 2010 | By Jared Blank
A sad note for lovers of the movie Airplane: Peter Graves, who played Captain Oveur (among many, many other roles), passed away over the weekend at the age of 83. He was responsible for quite possibly the best airline-related scene in movie history:
Oveur: Dunn… gentlemen, let’s get to work.
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Double Feature: Entire Crew Drunk on Ukraine Flight; Air Canada Delays Plane Due to Olympic Hockey
Mar 11th, 2010 | By Jared Blank
Story 1:
The entire crew – flight attendants and pilots – scheduled to work a flight from Kiev to Simferopol on Ukrainian carrier Donbassaero was determined to be drunk and removed from the plane by police. According to this article (in German, sorry) the crew all had blood alcohol levels above .3%. Keep up the good [...]
Lawsuit: Passenger Needed His Scrotum Attended to, Airline Staff Refused
Mar 10th, 2010 | By Jared Blank
An Air Transat passenger is suing the airline because during a 2008 flight from Montreal to Mexico flight attendants refused to examine his scrotum. The end.
Wait – you wanted more details than that? I’m happy to: the passenger found that he had sudden (and unexpected, obviously) bleeding coming from his scrotum area during the flight [...]
Danger Week Continues: Air India Pilots Threaten to Stop Flying to Kabul
Mar 9th, 2010 | By Jared Blank
Air India’s pilots have threatened to stop flying to Kabul if the airline does not give it clearer guidelines to protect their safety when they fly to the region. The pilots blame poor air traffic control, guidelines for whether they can takeoff or land with poor visibility, and procedures for handling a hijacking. For their [...]
Read moreA Quick Update on Flights to Baghdad
Mar 7th, 2010 | By Jared Blank
I continue to be amazed that scheduled airlines are flying into Baghdad. No civilian would ever consider traveling to the city at this point, but 13 airlines are making the trip (see the full list here). Sure, most are obscure, but Royal Jordanian and Turkish are making the trip from Amman and Istanbul, respectively. And [...]
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