Scandinavian airline SAS has begun the search for a suitable couple to walk down the aisle after announcing plans to play host to the first-ever airborne gay wedding in December. “It will be a very traditional wedding,” SAS spokesman Anders Lindström told AFP. “There will be wedding cake and dancing in the aisles.” thelocal.se
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Flaws in flight simulator training helped trigger some of the worst airline accidents in the past decade, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal accident records. More than half of the 522 fatalities in U.S. airline accidents since 2000 have been linked to problems with simulators, devices that are used nearly universally to...
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A music student and her father were barred from a Ryanair flight because they hadn’t bought an extra seat for her violin. Twelve-year-old Francesca Rijks had planned to put the valuable instrument in an overhead locker as hand luggage. But even though her father says airline staff had told him that would be permitted,...
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A man was arrested Monday after he told a security worker at Indianapolis International Airport that he had a “bomb in my belly” at a security checkpoint, police said. Indianapolis police were called to the airport at about 1:30 p.m. Authorities said that Jeff Rarey, 53, made the remark to a transportation security officer...
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At what point does an airport search step over the line? How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account? That’s the complaint leveled by Kathy Parker, a 43-year-old Elkton, Md., woman, who was flying out of Philadelphia International Airport...
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‘I felt like they were crawling all over me,’ passenger says Maggots falling from an overhead bin from a spoiled container of meat forced a US Airways flight to return to the gate so the bin could be cleaned. Passenger Donna Adamo said she noticed a couple of flies on the Monday flightwhen she...
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A United Airlines pilot was briefly detained at the international airport in Rio de Janeiro after lowering his pants during a security screening, police said Saturday. Pilot Michael D. Slynn, 49, was asked to remove his belt and shoes as part of a routine security screening Friday afternoon. In response, Slynn laughed at security...
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Poor Ashley, all she wanted was to fly from Houston to Manchester to visit her friend for the weekend. She planned to leave on Thursday, but Continental apparently overbooked a whole mess of flights and could only get her to Detroit the next day. From there Continental planned to send her onto Manchester with...
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Two young travelers connecting through Minneapolis/St. Paul Tuesday evening as part of Delta’s unaccompanied Minor Program were inadvertently boarded on incorrect connecting flights as a result of a paperwork swap. The children were under airline supervision at all times. Upon learning of the situation, Delta immediately contacted their guardians to advise them that their...
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Imagine being ordered by airport security workers to put your very expensive watch on a scanning belt, over your objections. Then imagine going to retrieve it and it’s gone. A Baker County woman says that experience at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia last year cost her a $24,000 Rolex her husband saved up to...
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