United Airlines plans to start charging passengers to reserve select seats near the front of the plane, a practice already in place at rivals American and Delta. United said it will implement the change later this year but did not provide specifics beyond that, including pricing. The seats for sale will be just behind its Economy…
Europe’s largest discount airline says “a tiny number” of checks were issued without a signature because of an administrative error. Ryanair says new checks have been sent to customers along with a letter of explanation. Ryanair says the problem involved 190 compensation checks out of some 20,000 issued in July. The company says “we apologize…
Finnair confirmed that a pilot who reported for work intoxicated on Wednesday at Helsinki Airport was one of its employees. According to MTV news, which first reported the story, the pilot had a blood alcohol concentration level of 1.5 on alcohol test. However the airplane was not ready for departure and the captain was not…
A 42-year-old truck driver was kidnapped with his truck and cargo of electronic equipment with a value of more than 5 million euros. A man with a weapon waited for the driver as he drove away from the cargo area of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport where he had loaded his truck. The man forced the driver…
A baby was taken to hospital after being found by a cleaner in a women’s toilet at Hong Kong International Airport. The airport received a report at 11.30am that one of its cleaners had found a “newborn baby inside a female toilet” near Gate 60 of the airport’s arrivals level, a spokesperson for the Airport Authority Hong…
An easyJet passenger who was an injured retired doctor was forced off a plane by armed police officers when flying to London over a disagreement regarding a booked seat with extra legroom. EasyJet passenger Sam Ramsay Smith, 72, was removed from the flight by armed police officers. He travelled to Amsterdam from London Gatwick to…
Tanami was travelling 700 miles from Duisburg Zoo in Dusseldorf, Germany to Scotland to join Edinburgh Zoo. The koala, a 19-month-old Queensland koala, is named Tanami. He was flying with low-cost airline Eurowings and managed to nab an entire row of seats to himself. He was even treated to a big bag of eucalyptus so he could…
Ronald Reagan National Airport, one of the primary airports serving the Washington DC area, registered a power outage beginning at approximately 9:45 pm ET, forcing the airport to put at least some flight takeoffs on hold, and divert others, with many computer systems down. The airport said via Twitter that flights were operating, albeit slowly…
A mum has said she was locked up in jail for three days with her young daughter after she ordered a glass of wine on a flight to Dubai. Ellie Holman, 44, was travelling to the city with her four-year-old little girl, Bibi. However after they landed, the mum was arrested after being questioned about…
Are you old enough to remember a time before mobile phones, a time before in-seat entertainment during flights? The best you might have to work with is one movie playing on a tiny TV 8 seats down or the two books you brought with you. How did anyone manage to fly internationally without going completely…
An under-developed fetus was discovered on an American Airlines flight at LaGuardia Airport. After the flight arrived from Charlotte and passengers deplaned Monday night, the cleaning crew made the discovery in the bathroom Tuesday morning. The plane was being held at Terminal B while the medical examiner’s office spent several hours onboard the aircraft. The…
Parts of Schönefeld Airport in Berlin were closed off for one hour due to a “pleasure device” found in a bag. A Terminal was partly evacuated at Berlin Schönefeld (SXF), after security alerted police over a device found during a routine X-ray check of a passenger’s bag. Writing in a post on social media, the…
