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Over the weekend, two Southwest flights collided on the tarmac at the Nashville International Airport while backing out of their respective gates. According to a statement released by Southwest spokeswoman Michelle Agnew, on Saturday a St. Louis-bound flight 1555 “came into contact” with an aircraft en route to Atlanta, Southwest Flight 4580. Per a photo posted by […]
An Indonesian airline wasn’t too pleased with a review from an Instagram influencer. According to Vice, Garuda Indonesia threatened to file defamation charges against the travel blogger because he shared an image of the airline’s makeshift menu. Describing himself as “a miles geek trying to master the art of traveling free with miles,” Rius Vernandes […]
During his “A Salute to America” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Donald Trump said that troops “took over airports” during the Revolutionary War. Of course, said war occurred between 1775–1783, a time in which there were no airports. “Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did […]
NBC News reports Boeing is starting a $100 million fund, which will be used to assist the families of the 346 people killed in the two 737 MAX crashes that happened this past October and March. “We at Boeing are sorry for the tragic loss of lives in both of these accidents and these lives lost will continue to weigh heavily on our hearts […]
At least 10 people are dead after a small passenger plane crashed into an empty airplane hangar in Addison, Texas on the morning of June 30. CBS reports that a twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350 King Air lost an engine soon after take-off. The plane veered hard to its left and crashed into the hangar, bursting into […]
An Air Canada passenger was left stranded inside an empty, dark, and locked plane on the tarmac of Toronto Pearson International Airport after she fell asleep and was never alerted of their arrival. Tiffani Louise O’Brien was flying to Toronto on Air Canada Flight 1799 on June 9 after spending the weekend in Quebec City when she woke up hours later in […]
While boarding a plane from Paris to the U.S., Cam Newton realized that this 10-hour ride would be very painful if he had to squeeze his 6-foot-5 frame into his seat. So, like some people with a $16 million salary would do, Newton tried to buy a more comfortable seat from another passenger. Unfortunately for Newton, […]
Following their Game 6 win that gave them their first championship in the history of their franchise, a number of Raptors have returned to Toronto on the plane of their most famous and noticeable fan. They flew home on Air Drake, the namesake’s ultra-luxe $220 million private jet. The trip home was their most recent […]
Danielle “Bhad Bhabie” Bregoli has been hospitalized after experiences intense stomach pains, TMZ reports. On Monday, sources disclosed to TMZ that the rapper felt sick before boarding a plane headed from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles. While seated on the flight, the pain in her stomach intensified, leading her to talk to the flight attendant about her […]
Air travel is an egregiously tasking experience that’s largely not even worth whatever destination awaits you, not to mention the added bummerisms affiliated with the return flight. For those fortunate enough to be in a position in which they can easily avoid the depths of despair punctuated by free peanuts and the smallest cup of […]
