(CBS DETROIT) – A Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was diverted early Wednesday morning after passengers were served spoiled food. Delta Flight 136 was diverted to New York’s JFK airport due to the issue, a Delta spokesperson confirmed. Officials say part of the Main Cabin in-flight meal service was spoiled, and medical […]
FILE – A Delta Air Lines plane leaves the gate July 12, 2021, at Logan International Airport in Boston. A Delta flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was diverted to New York’s Kennedy Airport, Wednesday, July 3, 2024, after passengers were served spoiled food, airline officials said. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) NEW YORK (AP) — A […]
“We thought we were going to die,” a passenger told Reuters about the Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay Getty A stock image of a flight 30 people have reportedly been left injured after strong turbulence caused a passenger flight to make an emergency landing in Brazil. Spanish airline Air Europa announced in a […]
What a soar-head. The friendly skies have just become hilariously rude, owing to a funky flight attendant and his shady penchant for picking on passengers. “The only job that you can call someone ‘Trash,’ and they thank you for it,” Josh Prinkey, an American Airlines employee, wrote in the closed captions of his trending clip. Prinkey […]
Thousands of passengers had their travel plans disrupted, and some were left stranded, after Canada’s second-largest airline canceled hundreds of flights this weekend. WestJet canceled 832 flights between last Thursday and Tuesday, over the country’s Canada Day holiday weekend. The strike ended up grounding 130 aircraft across 13 airports in Canada, and left some passengers […]
A Korean Air flight on Saturday experienced a sudden depressurization that left multiple passengers with ear pain and hyperventilation, according to the Korea JoongAng Daily. Flight KE189 departed Incheon Airport as scheduled and was about 50 minutes into its journey to Taichung International Airport in Taiwan when it plunged about 26,246 feet and turned around […]
A while back, Reddit user u/glittercorpse asked, “Flight attendants, both past and present, what’s the most entitled behavior you’ve seen from a passenger?” Universal Pictures The stories they had truly were truly heinous. Here’s what they had to say: 1.“One time, a woman got quite angry because her daughter spilled apple juice all over herself, […]
Insights from The Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and National Geographic The News A major German airline has announced it will increase some flight prices by up to €72 ($77), passing part of the cost of sustainable aviation fuel on to passengers. Lufthansa said it would impose the surcharge on flights departing from Europe as part […]
Passengers were left bruised and battered after a Sound Transit bus crashed outside a downtown Seattle building Saturday night. Out of the 17 people on board, 11 had to go to the hospital, including the driver who fractured his hip. Police say the driver told them the bus brakes went out just before swerving into […]
Waiting in long security lines at Charlotte’s airport is becoming an increasingly frustrating experience for passengers as the summer travel season grinds on in the midst of what airport officials expects will be record crowds. Passengers took to social media recently to gripe about going through long lines at checkpoints for the Transportation Security Administration […]
Aer Lingus passengers who are impacted by pilots’ industrial action next week are to be contacted by the airline from Friday. Pilots at the airline are to begin an indefinite work-to-rule from next Wednesday after balloting for industrial action, which means they will not engage in overtime or out-of-hours duties. The move has been branded […]
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines put an unspecified number of employees on leave for their involvement in an incident in which several Black passengers were removed from a flight in Phoenix, allegedly over a complaint about body odor. American CEO Robert Isom wrote in a note to staff that the incident was unacceptable. “I am […]