(Thanks, Upgrade Travel Better):
A Ryanair flight from Budapest to Dublin was diverted to Frankfurt (well, Frankfurt-Hahn) after a man who is allergic to mushrooms discovered that his overhead bin was leaking mushroom soup onto his head.  I know that doesn’t make any sense, but it’s what happened.  He had an allergic reaction, had trouble breathing, [...]

Well, that was just to get your attention – it was actually his press plane trailing his plane to Africa that was delayed.  The Washington Post has a mildly amusing story about the press traveling with Clinton for a 4-day whirlwind trip through Africa and the delays suffered by all.  Short version?  55 hour delay [...]

A court in India has ruled that Air India has the right to fire flight attendants it considers to be overweight.  The court agreed with the airline that overweight staff members posed a safety risk.  To show how progressive they were, the court also added that a woman’s physical appearance plays an important part in [...]

A customs officer at Tokyo’s Narita airport trying to test whether drug-sniffing dogs could find marijuana in a suitcase, forgot which piece of luggage he placed the drugs in and now someone is walking around Tokyo with about 1/3 of a pound of pot in the luggage.  Customs officials say that it is against regulations [...]

I’m not even sure this story makes any sense, but here goes:  A pilot and flight attendant for Pinnacle Airlines (Northwest) were in Harrisburg, PA, the night before working a flight.  They went to a bar, got drunk, headed back to the hotel, decided to hook up in the woods, somehow got separated, and the [...]

An airport worker in Portland, Maine, came up with a novel way to fight the high cost of heating his home:  he stole fuel from a JetBlue A320 parked at the airport to use for home heating.  An airport employee was seen filling up a 5-gallon jug with jet fuel from a JetBlue plane before [...]

Something about this is extremely fishy:
A man is suing JetBlue because, he says, he was forced to spend most of a flight from San Diego to JFK sitting on a toilet.  The passenger wanted to get on the flight but was told that there were no seats available.  He says a flight attendant offered to [...]

This should be a movie:
On February 1st a group of tourists from Ghana arrived in Barbados for a two week holiday. Their flight on Ghana International Airlines was to depart on February 15th. It did not show up. The 61 Ghanaians waiting for the flight were unable to simply take the next [...]

A passenger was removed from a United Airlines from from JFK to San Francisco after he refused to sit down prior to takeoff because he was praying.  The man (who, for the sake of full disclosure, though the religion doesn’t really matter here, was Jewish) was standing up and praying and would not sit down [...]

Two dead passenger stories to share:
Several Canadians are accusing Air Canada of bumping a family member’s coffin (which held the aforementioned family member at the time) from a Montreal flight to make room to get additional luggage onto the plane.  Air Canada denies the charge (though doesn’t explain what happened).  The coffin was not given [...]