Cathay Pacific is investigating whether a purser allowed a couple traveling in first class from Toronto to Hong Kong to have sex in the crew rest area of the 777.  The passenger, a doctor in his 20s, and his girlfriend were, uh, cuddling in first class when the purser allegedly asked if they’d like to [...]

An odd one:  A passenger on an American Airlines flight from Charlotte to Dallas ran to the front of the plane after it landed, opened the door, and slid down the emergency ramp onto the tarmac while the plane was taxiing..  The passenger gave no reason for his actions (unlike this passenger who opened the [...]

An American traveling on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to JFK forced a 2-hour delay after he complained (if you read Turkish, see original story here) that there were too many “arab types” on the plane.  The passenger became rather upset and was escorted from the plane, but passengers were still forced to undergo [...]

40 passengers on a Thomas Cook flight from from London Gatwick to Varadero, Cuba, got drunk and caused a great deal of general mayhem during the trip.  The inebriated passengers, believed to be from Ireland, smoked and allowed their children to “thump” (the article’s word) other passengers on the plane.  One unhappy person on the [...]

Good to end the year on a high note:  A couple is suing United Airlines because flight attendants on a flight from Osaka to San Francisco gave the man what may have been an excessive amount of wine.  After consuming said wine, the male part of the couple proceeded to, excuse my language here, kick [...]

It’s time again for the OTR’s nearly annual 10 Strangest Airline Stories of 2008. While we don’t have anything as good as my all-time favorite (Farts Lead to Flight Diversion), there are some gems. With that, here we go:
10) A Nevada brothel offers to reimburse American Airlines’ $15 checked bag fee for visiting [...]

Flight attendants duct taped an unruly passenger on a United flight from San Juan to Chicago yesterday, forcing the flight to divert to Charlotte, where the woman was arrested.  The passenger, who apparently had been drinking quite a bit before the flight, hit a flight attendant and repeatedly pulled the hair of the person sitting [...]

(Thanks, One Mile at a Time):
A sculptor from Buenos Aires heading to Sydney, Australia, for a vacation last week was surprised when she landed in Sydney, Nova Scotia.  She said she knew something was amiss when she got to Halifax and had to board a Dash-8 prop plane, which probably would not have made it [...]

Passengers on an Air Berlin flight from Nuremberg to Faro, Portugal, forced the airline to change their aircraft after 2 unrelated delays.  The plane was originally delayed and returned to the terminal after a cockpit display was broken.  The plane was fixed and taxied again, only to have a flight attendant pass out.  Passengers, who [...]

I flew to Vegas on JetBlue last night and unfortunately nothing like this happened:  a fight broke out on a JetBlue flight from Boston to Ft Lauderdale after one of the passengers was smoking in the bathrooms (this is generally frowned upon – well, both the smoking and the fighting).  Three people, all related to [...]