There’s been some icy weather across the United States in the past couple of days and it seems like a plane just skidded off the runway due to these conditions. A Southwest plane bound for Jamaica just skidded off the runway an hour (or so) ago at Baltimore-Washington International Airport …
One of the world’s most beloved cities is experiencing some epic flooding as the Seine River overflows.
An interesting study was just posted regarding how long airlines take to respond on Twitter. With the new tech savvy breed of travelers, airlines not only have to provide good customer service at the airport kiosks, but also online through social media. It comes as no surprise that the bigger …
An AirAsia flight from Perth (AUS) to Bali (Indonesia), apparently made an abrupt drop from 34,000 feet to 10,000 feet after the cabin experienced depressurization. Here is a video on YouTube of the incident from 9 News Perth. Leading the hysteria on board were the flight attendants, who despite knowing …
This is an interesting bit of information: the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, most notably Napoleon’s final place of exile, has finally seen its first commercial flight. The plane was an Airlink Embraer E190 from Johannesburg, South Africa, which made a stop in Windhoek, Namibia. Previously the island …
Just got word that BA won’t be honoring the crazy $1000 First Class fares to Ecuador. It’s always important to not book non-refundable travel around these crazy deals because you don’t know which way the airline will swing with their decisions. In this case I bet they realized that too …
We’ve all heard about the devastation that has struck Houston, and it is saddening to see what the south end of the city has become after Harvey. But something we never expect is a tropical paradise to no longer be such a place almost overnight.
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As most of you will have heard by now: a video has emerged of a passenger, who is by all accounts a doctor, being forcibly dragged off a United flight 3411 that was headed to Louisville. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/10/video-surfaces-of-man-being-dragged-from-overbooked-united-flight.html This is an insane situation from start to finish. And, while the passenger is definitely …
It looks like Air India has just become the first airline to fly an all-female crew around the world. This was on Air India’s San Francisco – New Delhi service, which is actually one of the longest flights in the world. It’s quite an historic occasion, and comes 53 years …
