No stories from us on Friday as we head to beautiful, incredibly-hard-to-get-to Springfield Illinois.
My only airline-related note about this trip is that I am flying American out of Newark on a reward ticket and I wanted to change my flight to depart from LaGuardia (American allows you to change reward tickets for free if you’re [...]

Delta has changed their frequent flyer program to a new 3-tiered system that, as you probably guessed by now, does not mean you’ll be using fewer miles for award tickets (details here).  In short:  they’ve added a 3rd tier that now has last-seat availability for 30-50% more miles than the old top tier.  If you’re [...]

Flight attendants on a Delta from from LA to Atlanta this morning noticed that the restroom door was locked when they were landing.  This is usually not a good sign.  They discovered that a passenger had died in the bathroom during the flight.  Luckily Delta only charges a fee for the second dead passenger.

I have no idea whether this is true, and something about it smells funny, but in this post from the Consumerist, a Delta passenger with muscular dystrophy says that Delta employees made her crawl off a plane to make her connection because a wheelchair couldn’t be located.  Dunno…

(Thanks, D-Lux):
Jerry Lewis was passing through airport security in Las Vegas on Friday when authorities discovered an unloaded gun in his luggage.  The comic said that the firearm wasn’t his, as the bag was occasionally used by other members of his family.  He then told TSA agents 5 1/2 hours of stories about how much [...]

OpenSkies has decided to drop its small (and kinda sad) coach cabin and replace those 30 seats with 12 (quite nice) Prem+ seats for its flights to Paris and Amsterdam.  Their 757s will now hold 64 passengers.  On the plus side, I wouldn’t be shocked if those Prem+ seats are available at a nice sale [...]

When airplane manufacturers show off their new models, they often include bells and whistles that will never actually make it in the air (piano lounge, bowling alley, whatever).  But Emirates just announced that its A380s will actually have showers for first class passengers.  The showers provide 5 minutes of showering time each.  The perk will [...]

You probably thought the days of 7-hour onboard delays were over.  You were thinking wrong.  Passengers were stranded on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to JFK on Sunday for about 6 hours when the captain told them that they would not be taking off that day.  It then took another hour to get everyone [...]

Two British women on an XL Airways flight from Kos, Greece, to Manchester were arrested after they attacked a flight attendant with a vodka bottle and tried to open the cabin door while screaming, “I need some fresh air.”  The two were arrested (to the cheers of other passengers) when their plane was diverted to [...]

Following in JetBlue’s footsteps, Virgin America has launched what it’s calling “Main Cabin Select” – you may know it as, “we’re going to charge you for exit rows and bulkheads.” Oh, they’ll also throw in free food and movies. No word on pricing yet, but I’ll assume it’ll be similar to JetBlue – [...]