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Woman suing United for $5 million (yep, $5 million) after her $7.99 in-flight...
Photo credit to Roderick Eime on flickr Surely at some point you’ve been disappointed by the Wi-Fi or entertainment experience on a flight, but to your credit, you probably handled it better than Cary...
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Is the IRS to blame for that $25 charge to check a bag?
Photo: Robert S. Donovan/Flickr There’s nothing like trying wedge one shoe at a time into an almost-closed carry-on bag, packing it so tight that you wonder if the seams will hold until you pull it out...
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Did the DoT just kill mistake fares?
Image: strolicfurlan via Flickr We’ve all seen those too-good-to-be true airfares floating around, like this $187 round-trip fare from New York to Abu Dhabi, or this $10 fare to Hawaii. If you’re like...
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Study reveals that fliers value good service over low costs
photo by Frank Kovalchek via Flickr In what must be a shocker to some airline executives, passengers prefer airlines that provide good service and a pleasant experience as opposed to low costs,...
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Emotional Support Animals are allowed to fly for free (even pigs), but are...
Photo: Ken Dodds/Flickr It sounds like the kind of riddle you’d find in the back pages of Highlights magazine, but what’s the quickest way to make pigs fly? Register them as emotional support animals....
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All-female crew mans United Airlines flight to Chicago
An all-female flight crew is about as rare now is it always was. (photo by U.S. Air Force) EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been amended to correct a statement that this was United’s first-ever all-female...
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Cabin crew allegedly deny Muslim chaplain can of Coke because of its...
Photo: Northwestern University McSA The last time Tahera Ahmad made international headlines, it was when the prominent Muslim scholar became the first woman to recite the Quran at the Islamic Society...
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Yet 5 more airplane bomb and chemical threats were called in. What's going on?
Photo credit: ERIC SALARD In another of recent domestic airport security hoaxes, authorities at Philadelphia International Airport investigated a bomb threat this morning, the latest in an inordinate...
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4 of the biggest complaints about Star Alliance
I recently got back from a trip to Europe for the sixth annual Star Alliance MegaDO (SMD6), during which I visited the Airbus factory in Toulouse, chartered a jet with 160 of the world’s biggest...
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Airlines want to shrink the size of your permitted carry-on
Photo by SuperJet International You might soon have to check that faithful carry-on bag that just fits into the overhead bin. The International Air Transport Association, which is the airlines’ trade...
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The best new international flight routes
Photo by Corey Leopold With the recent announcement that American Airlines is going to begin going Down Under in December, we decided to round up some of the newest and most noteworthy international...
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United passengers forced to spend the night in a Canadian military barracks...
Image: Aero Icarus via Flickr United passengers were forced to spend a night in military barracks after a flight was diverted this past weekend, and after the incident, it appears United customer...
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These are the best and worst airports, airlines and routes in America for...
Photo: Brian/Flickr Nate Silver, the brilliant mathematical mind behind FiveThirtyEight, took a break from writing about the Golden State Warriors and how Google predicts hockey ticket sales to update...
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Go ahead and fill that roller bag, because you're not going to need a smaller...
Photo: Canadian Pacific/Flickr We hope that you didn’t rush out to buy a new carry-on bag, because it seems like the ones we’ve all been using will still be OK to take on our next flight. On Wednesday,...
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Startup offers unlimited flights on commercial airlines for $1,500 a month...
photo by Aero Icarus via Flickr You have to wonder how many times business entrepreneur Paulius Grigas swiped an unlimited monthly metro card before the idea struck him — why not do the same for air...
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Are U.S. Airlines Colluding? Senator calls for investigation
photo by Flazingo Photos via Flickr New types of airline partnerships may be arising these days, but apparently cooperation between airlines isn’t always legal — at least not according to Connecticut...
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U.S. airlines collected record $1.6Bn in baggage and change fees during Q1 of...
Photo: James Emery/Flickr I like to imagine that airline executives are sitting behind their massive, impeccably polished desks this morning, rubbing their palms together and hissing the word...
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Passenger struck by lightning at airport after diverted flight
Photo: Matt Czarnocki/Flickr What should’ve been a routine two-hour flight from Hartford to Charlotte took a turn for the terrifying – and improbable – after a diversion to Columbia, South Carolina. US...
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Passengers stuck in Denver overnight after jerk lights cigarette on United...
photo by Fried Dough, via Flickr If you’ve ever wondered why commercial airplanes are still filled with no smoking signs, announcements and ashtrays on the lavatory doors nearly 30 years after smoking...
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This is the cost of checked bags on every major U.S. airline
Photo by Charles Wiriawan In honor of JetBlue’s fall from grace yesterday, joining all other U.S. carriers except Southwest in charging for checked bags, we decided to lay out for you exactly how much...
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