An Air Transat passenger is suing the airline because during a 2008 flight from Montreal to Mexico flight attendants refused to examine his scrotum.  The end.
Wait – you wanted more details than that?  I’m happy to:  the passenger found that he had sudden (and unexpected, obviously) bleeding coming from his scrotum area during the flight [...]

Hm.  JAL, which has laid off 1,300 flight attendants recently, has found that there is an aftermarket for its uniforms, with some being listed on eBay for more than $3,000.  Why so much?  Apparently JAL’s uniforms are prized by fetishists (I don’t know and I don’t want to know the specifics on that).  JAL has [...]

An odd one:
A Ryanair passenger flying from Krakow to East Midlands (in the UK) received a scratchcard for a contest that Ryanair was holding.  Like an instant win lottery ticket, the winner would receive 10,000 Euro.  This passenger got on board the flight, scratched off his card, and learned that he won the prize.  He [...]

A Delta Connection flight from Rochester (NY) to Atlanta was canceled last week after two flight attendants got into a fight that was either verbal (according to the airline) or involved punches (according to a passenger).  Pinnacle Airlines, which operates the route as Delta Connection, said that the brouhaha occurred after a passenger became ill [...]

A male passenger is suing British Airways because of its policy that young children cannot sit next to male passengers who are not related to them (no, I was not aware of this policy).  In short:  a male passenger was in a middle seat next to his pregnant wife who was sitting in the window [...]

A German man/idiot repeatedly joked about having a bomb in his underwear while going through security at Stuttgart’s airport and was then angered when he and his family missed their flight to Cairo.  He was also not happy to find out that he will not be reimbursed for the missed vacation (he was on a [...]

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) apologized yesterday for calling a US Airways flight attendant a “bitch” after she asked him to end his cellphone conversation prior to takeoff on a Shuttle flight from LaGuardia to Washington.  His seatmate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) originally said that Schumer had been polite the entire time.  But then it turns [...]

I cannot believe how underreported this story has been:  Cathay Pacific has suffered a series of toilet blockages on its flights, including one that caused an 18-hour delay on a Riyadh – Hong Kong flight that was forced to stop in Mumbai.
To combat these mysterious backups, Cathay has launched a campaign to educate passengers about [...]

A woman in south Florida called in a bomb threat to an American Airlines flight to Honduras to help her boss, who was going to miss the flight because he was running late.  He made the plane, but police later arrested the woman for reporting a false bomb threat.
This all sounded vaguely familiar to me [...]

An Air Zimbabwe flight from Harare to Bulawayo crashed into a bush pig (a small warthog-like animal) during takeoff last Tuesday, injuring several passengers and causing significant damage to the Chinese-made MA60 aircraft.
Passengers reported that after the plane came to a stop, smoke began to fill the cabin and they struggled opening the jammed emergency [...]