A pilot for Arkefly shuttling a tour group from Amsterdam to Turkey kicked the entire planeload of passengers off the plane after about a dozen passengers were misbehaving during takeoff.  A group of the hoildaymakers were running around the plane and sitting in jumpseats during taxiing away from the terminal in Amsterdam.  They passengers were [...]

From what I can tell from other sites, you airline dorks love your trip reports (I mean that entirely with love) with lots of detail about the flights. So I thought I’d pass along this report from my trip last weekend to St. John’s, Newfoundland, with our 3 year old girls, Sage & Scarlett. [...]

Back in 2007 Delta made a bold decision to expand its international flying signficantly from both Atlanta and JFK.  The theory was that the domestic market was oversaturated, and that there was plenty of opportunity to grow to second (and third-) tier cities and stay out of the way of competition.  757s made it cost [...]

(Full credit for this goes to Mark Ashley at Upgrade Travel Better…thanks for the heads up)
Mark points out a really, really great site for ridiculous airline stories over at the Aviation Herald.  The site appears to report all aviation-related incidents, from mechanical issues (whatever) to passengers acting like idiots (fantastic).  Just go through and pick [...]

Must be a full moon or something:  71 British travelers flying back to Newcastle from Mallorca refused to board a Thomas Cook flight after crew asked them to move seats to help balance the aircraft weight.  A cargo door was broken, causing the airline to load all cargo into the front hold of the plane.  [...]

The Guardian is reporting that British Airways may shut down OpenSkies, its all-business class subsidiary flying between New York, Amsterdam and Paris.  The airline has reportedly been losing money since launch and last year canceled its expansion plans (including plans for a 5th 757).  To bolster its Paris operations it purchased L’Avion about a year [...]

For those of you who still care about train-wreck-waiting-to-happen JetAmerica, The Airline Blog has posted an interview with the airline’s PR guy.  It’s worth a read simply for the cluelessness contained therein.  For example:
(On comparing JetAmerica to Allegiant): “In terms of analogies, you’re comparing apples to oranges. We’re running 737s and they’re running MD80s. Totally [...]

British Airways, which is facing the biggest financial crisis of its storied history, has offered its staff between 1 and 4 weeks unpaid leave as a means to cut budget.  The odd part of the story is this:  they have also told staff that they are welcome to work during that unpaid leave period if [...]

Continental Airlines is in a bit of hot water after putting an unaccompanied 10-year-old on the wrong flight.  According to the Consumerist, a family paid Continental’s Unaccompanied Minor fee and sent their little girl from Boston to visit Grandma in Cleveland.  Unfortunately, Continental put her on a flight to Newark that happened to be leaving [...]

A Canadian woman whose name matched that of a known criminal suffered a bit of humiliation last week when security officials at a Montreal Airport asked her to prove that she was not the fugitive by stripping down and showing that her butt did not have a tattoo on it. After passing through customs, [...]