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• An inside look at off-the-books elite airline programs

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines , Airports Imagine an airline experience free of middle seats, standing in line or dealing with nut-job flight attendants who withhold orange juice , water and any other service not related to "safety." Tom Stuker, it seems, doesnt have to close his eyes ...
  1 day ago

• American Airlines Responds To Psychotic OJ Incident

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 796
  American Airlines made this statement to Fox & Friends regarding the story we posted last week of a first-class passenger who was given a warning that he might face federal charges for asking a flight attendant for a glass of orange juice: We are in the midst of a thorugh investigation. We do not just speak ...
  3 days ago

• Delta Airlines offers free elite status to victims of flight attendant from hell

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: Airlines Last week news of a particularly nasty incident on an American Airlines flight hit the blogs. Here at Gadling, we covered it , then our very own flight attendant posted her views on the story , and this weekend, the passenger in question responded . To cut a long story short - a ...
  5 days ago

• Holiday travel to fall 2.5 percent

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines The airports may not be as crowded at Christmas this year. The Air Transport Association of America expects holiday flight traffic to fall 2.5 percent from 2008 . The holiday period is measured as December 17, 2009 through January 6, 2010. The busiest ...
  5 days ago

• Easy First Class Upgrades 101

  
  Trip Quips — Authority: 116
  Before a recent less-than-full flight from Cancun to Charlotte, gate agents were pretty much begging passengers to upgrade from coach to first for $100. If I’d originally booked my ticket as first class, $400 higher one-way, I’d think twice about buying in advance and take my chances that I could snag an upgrade ...
  5 days ago

• Videodrome #3: Paper Puppet Reenactments Of Removed YouTubes

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 796
  Faster! Leaner! Meaner! Ben Popken rounds up Consumerist.coms top stories of the week, from psychotic stewardesses to deadly foreclosures. This week we introduce a new feature: printing out the internet and turning it into a puppet show. Stories covered in this episode: IRS Tells Single Mom Shes Too ...
  5 days ago

• Delta Offers Gold Status To Victims Of Pyschotic American Airlines Stewardess

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 796
  Delta has offered Gold status to anyone who was on the ill-fated American Airlines flight where a stewardess screamed at a first class passenger who had the gall to ask for orange juice, and had him given a written warning by the captain. Your article was forwarded to me from an industry peer and I thought maybe you ...
  5 days ago

• Galley Gossip: The first class / orange juice passenger responds to what happened in flight

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: Food and Drink , Airlines , Transportation , Galley Gossip My Galley Gossip post, a flight attendant responds to the first class orange juice debacle , created quite a flurry of comments from people venting their frustrations out on flight attendants. Many readers accused me of defending Helen, ...
  1 week ago

• Galley Gossip: A flight attendant responds to the first class orange juice debacle

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: Airlines , Galley Gossip If you havent already heard, there was some sort of debacle involving a flight attendant and a glass of orange juice on an American Airlines flight recently. I read about the story first on the Consumerist web site . Wait, take that back, I tried to read the article but ...
  1 week ago

• Airline Pre-Earnings Whispers Continue to Sound Positive

  
  PlaneBuzz — Authority: 106
  Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas. Or something like that. Thanks to a wickedly strange website entitled Sketchy Santas for todays visual. If you have a warped sense of humor like I do, go on over and take a peek. Ill use a couple more of them here before we say goodbye to the Christmas season. I mean, after all, a ...
  1 week ago

• Asking For Orange Juice On American Airlines May Violate Federal Law

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 796
  Something went very wrong on American Airlines flight 614 from Sacramento to Dallas this Sunday, December 6th. An American Airlines stewardess having an extremely bad day flipped the frak out on a first class passenger for asking for a glass of OJ and gave him a written warning from the captain for, "threatening, ...
  1 week ago

• Last minute flights may be cheaper than the bus

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: Business , Stories , Airlines , Airports , Budget Travel Searching for travel deals feels like playing a game show where how to get a winning number is unclear. Its like hunting in a jungle where the frequent hunter has the edge. Timing remains the wild card. Being flexible and not assuming ...
  1 week ago

• PlaneBusiness Banter Now Posted!

  
  PlaneBuzz — Authority: 106
  This weeks edition of PlaneBusiness Banter is now posted. The news leading off this weeks issue is November traffic numbers -- and RASM estimates. Last week the U.S. airline industry, overall, reported very strong traffic and RASM estimates for the month of November. This news, coupled with the accompanying ...
  1 week ago

• Airline secret societies

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: Business , North America , United States , Airlines Theres a special type of membership level, but the airlines dont want you to know about it ... unless youre dropping an easy $50,000 a year on full fare tickets with the same airline. The topic, which comes up from time to time, is in the ...
  1 week ago

• Are you planning a mileage run? Four reasons to rush to the airport

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines There are only a few weeks left in 2009, and frequent travelers across the country are staring more intently at their mileage statements than Santa does at the naughty/nice list. The stakes are high: miss the elite cutoff, and a year of upgrades, accelerated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Odds are, youll be on a smaller plane

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines , Airports Airlines are using the little planes for longer runs, these days. According to the Las Vegas Sun , the average regional airline flight hit 461 miles in 2008, up profoundly from 274 miles in 2009. Thats an increase of 41 percent! This is an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should Fat People Be Allowed to Fly?

  
  One Man's Blog — Authority: 122
  Kieran Daly wrote an article called Passenger creates big debate at American – I mean big! a couple of weeks ago. The story originated as a result of the following photograph taken by a flight attendant aboard her flight while the plane was boarding. Now anyone who has to do a lot of traveling can empathize ...
  2 weeks ago

• Notorious Passenger Of Size Was Given A Full Row To Himself

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 796
  A photo allegedly taken by a flight attendant that has been making its way around the internet has prompted an investigation of safety procedures by the FAA, says the New York Post. NYP says: Worried that the severely obese passenger would block the planes aisle in an emergency, American cleared out the ...
  2 weeks ago

• That obese passenger post

  
  Unusual Attitude — Authority: 103
  As you can see below, for the last couple of weeks Ive been doing a lousy job of maintaining this blog - but there are reasons. The obese pax post has got huge attention and I just thought I should tell you where I am on it. I dont know for a fact that the pic is genuine, and dont have a quickway of finding ...
  2 weeks ago

• American flies above Delta with higher offer to JAL

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 756
  Filed under: Company News , Delta Air Lines Speaking to the media in Tokyo, AMR ( AMR ) CFO Tom Horton said that his company would work with the Japanese government to save carrier JAL. AMR and private equity team TPG are offering $1.1 billion toward a restructuring package designed to keep the airline flying, ...
  2 weeks ago

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