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United refunds passengers after drunk flight attendant disaster
Passengers aboard a flight headed to North Dakota on Thursday afternoon are being refunded after they were forced to deal with a drunk flight attendant. According to passenger Erika Gorman, the unnamed flight attendant used profanity while going over the safety instructions, telling passengers: 'If your seatbelt isn't tight, you f***ed up'. The air stewardess was then filmed getting up in a passenger's face. Gorman tweeted: 'Thanks United, for a terrifying flight! Drunk or stoned stewardess endangered everybody's lives.
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Woman 'fined $500 over free airline apple'
A woman says she is facing a $500 (£357) fine from the US customs agency after a free apple she was given as a snack on a plane was found in her bag. Crystal Tadlock, travelling to the US from Paris, said she was saving the fruit for her onward flight to Denver. But the apple was found in a random search by US border agents after her first flight landed in Minneapolis.
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Senator blasts United after dog dies in overhead bin, another sent to Japan
A 10-year-old German shepherd Irgo was supposed to be on a flight from Oregon to Kansas City, but when owner Kara Swindle arrived in Missouri, United Airlines gave her a Great Dane instead. The dogs got switched, and Irgo was sent to Japan. "At this point all I can do is be hopeful that my dog is going to be OK," said owner Kara Swindle. "I've cried too much."
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Qatar Airways responds to blockade by Middle Eastern neighbors by adding new routes
Over the next two years, the Qatar-based airline will add new flights to airports in Germany, London, Portugal, Estonia, Malta, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Turkey, Greece and Spain.
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Airlines making billions with extra charges for customers
Global airlines are expected to earn a record $82 billion US this year by charging customers extra for everything from seat assignment to baggage fees to travel commissions. And Air Canada is among the top ten airlines in the world when it comes to earning this so-called ancillary revenue, racking up nearly $1.18 billion US last year, according to reports from IdeaWorksCompany, a U.S. research company that tracks airline revenue.
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An airline said it will start weighing some passengers before flights
An airline in Finland says it will begin weighing some of its passengers between late October and early November, according to The Helsinki Times. The Times on Tuesday reported that Finnair will perform the move on a voluntary basis at Helsinki Airport. Finnair’s objective is to gather more accurate data about the average weight of its passengers and their carry-on luggage.
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Feds Decide Not to Fine United Airlines for Passenger-Dragging Incident
United Airlines won’t be punished by the federal government over the forced removal of a passenger from a flight in April that put a spotlight on the growing tensions between airlines and travelers on crowded flights. The Department of Transportation has concluded its investigation into the dragging of passenger Dr. David Dao and found no reason to fine the airline, the department said in a letter to United...
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The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat
Every so often, officials at Rockwell Collins Inc. pitch a one-day job offer to residents near its Winston-Salem, N.C. design center: Earn $100 for sitting in an airplane seat for eight hours. Show up for the gig, and there’s nary a drinks cart or flight attendant in sight. The rows of seats are arrayed in a testing area at the company’s design and engineering complex. Even without engine hum or overhead bins, “it’s kind of like they’re on the plane,” says Alex Pozzi, vice president of research and development at the company’s campus here.
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Another dog dies aboard United Airlines
The airline, which has the worst record for pet deaths on-board their flights, is being held responsible by a Houston family for the death of their 5-year-old King Charles spaniel. The Rasmussen family has claimed that United Airlines is responsible for the passing of their dog. In a report to an ABC affiliate, the family said their dog was in the cargo hold of the plane when the flight was delayed and held on the tarmac for two hours before taking off to San Francisco, reports the New York Post.
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Air Canada near miss: picture shows how close planes came to crashing
Newly released data and photos show how shockingly low an Air Canada jet was when it pulled up to avoid crashing into planes waiting on a San Francisco international airport taxiway last month. The Air Canada pilots mistook the taxiway for the runway next to it and flew their jet to just 59ft (18m) above ground before pulling up to attempt another landing, according to National Transportation Safety Board information released on Wednesday.
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Four huge airlines on three continents are creating a virtual super-airline
Four huge airlines on three continents want to create a virtual super-airline. They plan to spend more than $1 billion to do it. In a series of transactions announced Thursday, Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Shanghai-based China Eastern (CEA)are each buying 10% of Air France/KLM (AFLYY)Group. And Air France/KLM will buy 31% of Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways. The roughly $1.2 billion worth of investments will deepen business ties between the carriers, giving them the ability to coordinate across the busy air corridor between Europe and the United States.
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FBI: Delta flight attendant smashed disruptive Tampa man with a wine bottle on flight
Armed with fists and an unexplained determination, a Tampa man attacked Delta Air Lines crew and passengers Thursday as he tried to pry open an exit door midair, according to the FBI. Joseph Hudek IV was eventually subdued by multiple people on the Seattle-to-Beijing flight — in a melee where bottles of wine became weapons.
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Budget airline to remove all seats from planes
Budget airline VivaColombia is considering plans to remove all seats from its planes and make passengers stand. They hope the move will drive down fares by allowing them to squeeze more passengers into each flight, opening up air travel to working class Colombians and budget holidaymakers.
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Colorado mom angry at United after infant overheats while airplane sits on tarmac at DIA
A Colorado mother is criticizing United Airlines for its response after her baby became overheated while their flight-delayed aircraft sat on the tarmac in Denver during Thursday’s heatwave. Emily France, 39, an author from Superior, said airlines should allow passengers to leave delayed aircraft that become unbearably hot.
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A woman tried to open the emergency exit on a flight and passengers are blaming the airline
Passengers flying on the world’s safest airline say that their warnings about a potentially disruptive passenger were ignored — leading to an emergency diversion of their flight from California to Texas when a woman tried to open an emergency exit door mid-flight.
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United is yet again the worst after video of employee pushing elderly man surfaces
In case you've somehow forgotten, United Airlines is having a horrible year. From leggings-gate and in-flight animal deaths to the infamous violent removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight, the airline has found itself in the midst of some serious controversy.
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Autonomous RVs Will Disrupt the Airline Business
As a Director here at Pythian, and the host of the Datascape podcast, technology and business are two topics that are always on my mind. Currently, in the business world, there’s a lot of talk about self-driving transport trucks and how they will disrupt the transportation industry and potentially remove a lot of middle class jobs. As I started thinking about these things, I thought...
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British Airways flight disruption was caused by someone unplugging the power
If you work in technology there’s often a joke about someone tripping over the power cord whenever a server goes down. It appears that joke became reality for British Airways last weekend. British Airways flights were disrupted worldwide due to a power supply issue in the company’s main datacenter, with 75,000 passengers affected by canceled flights.
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British Airways meltdown: Compensation and other costs could hit $100 million
The computer system failure that grounded thousands of British Airways flights over the weekend could cost the airline more than $100 million. British Airways canceled all Saturday flights from London's two biggest airports following the tech meltdown. The outage was caused by a power surge that affected messaging across the airline's system, and there was no evidence that hackers were to blame, it said.
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British Airways boss 'tries to gag staff' on IT meltdown which has hit 300,000 passengers after 'inexperienced staff outsourced to India didn't know to launch back up system'
THE British Airways boss is alleged to have tried to “gag staff” over the IT meltdown which hit 300,000 passengers – as inexperienced staff in India didn’t know how to launch the back up system, it has been claimed. The airline’s check-in and operational systems crashed on Saturday and saw thousands of people trying to travel on Bank Holiday weekend left stranded.
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