It’s the time of year when all news outlets do Top 10 lists of this or that, so, because I have no original ideas whatsoever, I’m bringing you the 10 Craziest Airline Stories of 2006. Enjoy.
10) A Lithuanian tourist in Cancun runs out of money and heads to the airport to strip for cash so [...]
A passenger who weighed 353 pounds is suing Air France for forcing him to buy a 2nd seat on a flight from Delhi to Paris last year. He was especially upset that Air France staff measured his waist in the airport to prove that he was too large. He also wasn’t too happy that Air [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Air France Sued by “Fat” PassengerOy.
A woman put her 1-month old grandson through the X-Ray machine at LAX on Saturday, not realizing that she shouldn’t do that (don’t ask). The baby was taken to the hospital and was completely fine. Security officials, however, were successful in keeping 4 ounces of toothpaste off the aircraft, but not in keeping a baby [...]
In the continuing farce of airport security…
A man was found sleeping on a Delta 737 in Raleigh airport yesterday morning before the flight was boarded. I’m glad security was focused on keeping bottled water off the aircraft, while keeping no eye on a guy sleeping on an airplane. Well done!
You can read much more about this elsewhere, but in case you didn’t see it (if you’re reading this site, though, you probably have seen it. I’ll shut up now) Delta rejected US Airways’ buyout offer. The most interesting reason given by Delta is that the merger would create monopoly power on 2,000 city pairs. [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Delta Rejects US Airways BidNot exactly an airline story, but when Hillary Clinton visited Iraq in November, the military assigned her helicopter the name Broomstick One.
Read the Rest of the Story: Broomstick OneSouth African Airways has a 2-for-1 sale for flights between New York or Washington, DC, and Johannesburg and both people fly for a total of $1350 round trip. $675 per person (yes, I can do math). Fly between January 15 and February 15.
Read the Rest of the Story: 2-for-1 Fares to South AfricaAlitalia has a great deal on a flight from New York or Boston to Cairo or Tel Aviv: book by December 27, and you can fly to those cities for just $459 between January 15 and February 28. Flights often cost double that.
Read the Rest of the Story: New York & Boston to Cairo or Tel Aviv, $459 Round Trip(As always, thanks to Nicole at Hitwise for another winner…)
80 live mice escaped from a man’s carry-on luggage on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from Riyadh to Tabuk. No word on why the man had mice in his bag, how he got them on board, how they escaped, or how they rounded up the mice. [...]
A follow-up to the removal of the Christmas trees at Seattle’s airport:
The folks running Seattle’s airport decided the hell with it, we’re putting the Christmas trees back. The group that started the brouhaha by asking for a menorah to placed in the airport denies that it ever asked for the trees to be taken down, [...]
