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As flights across the country continue to get canceled, airfare data shows that prices from major airlines have ballooned despite the announcement of price caps, NBC News reports. The mass flight cancellations, led by Southwest Airlines, have resulted in higher than usual costs during the holiday travel rush. American Airlines, United, and Delta have announced […]
The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that it will investigate the high rate of recent flight cancellations from Southwest Airlines amid the winter storms that gripped the nation over the holidays. “USDOT is concerned by Southwest’s unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays & reports of lack of prompt customer service,” the department tweeted on Monday. […]
A Tennessee family is looking for answers after their beloved dog Bluebell was sent to Saudi Arabia, not Nashville, due to a reported airline mishap. Per a report from local Nashville outlet WSMV, Madison Miller and her family were making a move from London to Tennessee, complete with Bluebell. However, upon arrival at the Nashville […]
Over the weekend, TMZ posted footage of Flavor Flav cursing out a Spirit Airlines agent at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. Sources told the outlet the Public Enemy rapper was preoccupied when the flight to Detroit started boarding, as he was working on his laptop and taking phone calls at the gate. When he […]
As Halloween approaches, parents are being warned that fentanyl pills could be mixed with candy. ABC7 reports a traveler tried to get around 12,000 fentanyl pills through airport security on Wednesday morning. The drugs were housed in Skittles, Whoppers, and SweeTarts packages. Initially the suspect got away, but was later identified. “The suspect fled prior to […]
A Georgia college student died over the weekend after being struck by a plane propeller on a date. Per a report from regional Macon outlet The Telegraph, 21-year-old Sani Aliyu of Georgia Southern University had rented a Cessna for a date with an unnamed young woman on Sunday. Once the plane returned to the Statesboro-Bulloch […]
Eric André has filed a lawsuit against Clayton County over police’s “program of racial profiling and coercive stops” at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. As previously reported, André went public last year with what he described as a racial profiling incident at the Georgia airport, ultimately hitting Jimmy Kimmel Live to detail the harassment. Per André, a […]
All is well between Freddie Gibbs and Jeezy. In a recent interview with Bootleg Kev, Gibbs—whose new album $oul $old $eparately arrived last month—reflected on running into Jeezy and Jeannie Mai-Jenkins at an airport. According to Gibbs, the chance encounter spurred a “beautiful” moment between himself and the CTE World co-founder. (Gibbs was briefly a […]
Three people were killed when two small planes collided mid-air in California on Thursday. CBS News reports the accident took place before 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, California–a city located about 50 miles south of San Jose. A twin-engine Cessna 340 crashed into a single-engine Cessna 152. One person […]
JetBlue agreed to buy Spirit Airlines on Thursday for a reported $3.8 billion. The Associated Press reports the deal faces a significant hurdle in receiving approval from antitrust regulators in the Biden administration who may be wary of allowing an already limited number of airline options in the United States to shrink even further. A merger would make JetBlue the nation’s fifth-largest airline company […]
