A Texas man was sentenced to 10 months in prison after a drunken incident on a JetBlue flight from Houston to JFK.  Jose Roman, Jr, got drunk and was refused additional drinks when he asked flight attendants for them.  So far, so good.  He then got rather belligerent, freaked out on the flight attendants, and, [...]

This is admittedly a slightly off-topic note…(but it’ll come around to airlines. I think.)
I’ve been rather fascinated by the New York Philharmonic’s trip to Pyongyang, North Korea, to perform for the sheltered nation. If you watched any of the performance it’s pretty hard not to get a bit choked up when the [...]

Delta and American Express just announced their Pay with Miles program, and it’s actually quite good (assuming you have a Gold or Platinum American Express SkyMiles credit card*). In short: You can pay with flights using miles, with 10,000 miles knocking $100 off the flight’s cost. This isn’t great for business class [...]

A follow-up from yesterday’s story from the passengers on the Southwest flight who said they were discriminated against because they were too pretty…
Southwest put out a great press release saying that they weren’t picked up by the FBI for being too pretty, they were picked up for harassing a passenger who took too long for [...]

Two University of South Florida students claim they were discriminated against on a Southwest flight from Tampa to LA because they were too attractive. First, they say that a flight attendant wouldn’t give them a bottle of water. Then they swore at another passenger who took too long in the bathroom. (No, [...]

A 43-year old pilot for GB Airways died of a heart attack while flying from Manchester to Paphos, Cyprus, on Sunday.  Others onboard tried frantically to revive him, though even after an emergency landing in Turkey they were unsuccessful in their attempts.  First Officer Mike Warren flew during the first Gulf War and had been [...]

Cathay Pacific’s chief 777 pilot was fired after scaring the living crap out of the airline’s chairman.  The pilot was flying a new 777 back from Seattle to Hong Kong with 50 passengers (staff members, primarily) on board, including the airline’s chairman.  After takeoff he circled back and flew about 30 feet over the runway [...]

A passenger died on an American Airlines flight from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, to JFK on Friday after she complained of feeling ill. She twice asked a flight attendant for oxygen, and twice she refused the passenger’s request. After other passengers began to get upset, they attempted to administer oxygen, only to find that the [...]

An interesting deal from Air Canada:  purchase one of their two-month airpasses, and they’ll give you a roundtrip flight to London, Paris or Shanghai for just $150 (and that includes taxes).  Two month passes start at $549/month for unlimited flying Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays in a single geographic region.  If you’re flying to Canada quite [...]

Many stories have been written recently about what the airline landscape might look like following the rumored mergers. These articles tend to note that travelers will face higher fares, fewer available flights, unhappy airline staff, and a general sense of miserableness once Northwelta and Continited jam themselves together.
That said, on a day-to-day (or flight-to-flight) [...]