A 21-year old Zimbabwean student attempted to hijack a South African Airlines flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg and divert it to Maputo, Mozambique, on Saturday. His efforts were thwarted by passengers, including an off-duty pilot, who wrestled away the hypodermic needle he was using to threaten crew members. The airline and police are now [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Man Attempts to Hijack South African FlightAfter years and years of bickering, a compromise has been reached on the Wright Amendment situation that affects Dallas Love airport. As mentioned here a bunch of times, the Wright Amendment forbade airlines from flying from Dallas Love to states that were not contiguous to Texas. Nor could they sell tickets between, say, Dallas Love [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Compromise Finally Reached on Dallas LoveAir New Zealand has launched an investigation into whether some of its employees have been exchanging travel passes for sex with prostitutes. ANZ employees can buy tickets at 10% of the normal fare and have reportedly been giving them to prostitutes in exchange for services. I’m not sure why the most surprising aspect of this [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Air New Zealand’s Mile High Club?Rumors are swirling that Emirates is seeking to purchase British Airways. Shares in British Airways are up, despite Emirates’ denial that it was interested in the British flag carrier. Emirates has been on a massive expansion, becoming a major force in the Middle East, and scaring the hell out of European carriers who thought that [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Emirates to Bid on British Airways?Things are not going well over at Airbus. After a couple of years where they could do no wrong (and Boeing seemed to do nothing right), it’s getting messy over in Europe. The company announced another delay for the double-decker A380, pushing launch back another 6 months. Singapore Airlines, the launch customer, will take delivery [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: A380 Delayed Again. Again.A food writer carrying a stash of goodies back home caused a 3 hour shutdown of Tallahassee airport yesterday. For some reason, his bag filled with an oyster shell, honey, spice rub and a tape recorder seemed so suspicious that authorities shut down the airport to fully investigate. They investigated and found that the guy [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Honey, Oyster Shut Down Tallahassee AirportI apologize because 99% of you will not give a rat’s ass about this (excuse my French), but if you are a serious fare dork, you’re going to like this. The fine folks at Farecompare.com (who have a cool tool that allows you to see the lowest fares for every route around the world quickly), [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: For Hardcore Fare Nerds OnlyThe NY Times has a pretty good article about airline employees commuting crazy distances to go to work (Honolulu to LaGuardia for 2 weeks each month was the wackiest). The next time there’s a bit of traffic on the way to work, just be happy your job isn’t an 11 hour flight away.
Read the Rest of the Story: Some Airline Employees Have Looooooong CommutesI’ve always kinda wondered if something like this could happen:
A guy returning home to Liverpool, England, on Continental from Los Angeles somehow ended up in Manchester, New Hampshire, instead of Manchester, England. After landing in Cleveland and boarding a regional jet, it occurred to him that the 50 seater was not going to reach Manchester, [...]
It’s getting nasty in Hawaii: New carrier Go! is pissing off Hawaiian and Aloha by dropping fares on some routes to $19 each way (book by June 9th for travel by July 9th). Aloha is so annoyed they’re refusing to match, which is understandable because even the chief of Go! said he can’t make money [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: $19 Fares Within Hawaii