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Airline Introduces Radical New Policy — Charging Passengers By Weight

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:16:38 +0000

With only two planes to its name, you may think Samoa Air is a fly-by-night operation, but it’s proving to be a fly-by-weight one. The airline has introduced a new policy in which passengers are charged based on their weight. Rates begin at $1 per kilogram from Samoa Air’s shortest domestic flight to $4.16 per [...]

FDA Finds Mice, Roaches and Gnats in Your Airline Food

Mike Adams — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:52:32 +0000

You might want to stick with the sealed bag of peanuts, after an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration recently discovered the presence of mice, ants and roaches in airline food. According to health documents obtained from the FDA through a Freedom of Information Act request by the show ’20/20,’ there have been nearly [...]

Half of All Airline Pilots Admit to Falling Asleep While Flying

Donald Deane — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:05:54 +0000

Let’s face it, we’ve all come pretty close to nodding off at work. However, there are certain professions — say, airline pilot — where taking a quick snooze just isn’t acceptable. And yet, a new study suggests that a staggering number of airline pilots in Europe have actually fallen asleep while at the controls. The European Cockpit [...]

Win a Free Airline Ticket if Your Candidate Loses

Mike Adams — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:27:16 +0000

If you wake up on November 7 and decide you just can't bear to live in a land with a President Romney or withstand another four years of President Obama, then have we got an offer for you: JetBlue Airways will fly you out of the country free of charge.

Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson Aims to Save Astraeus Airlines

Jon Wiederhorn — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:25:17 +0000

Not only does Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson refuse to go down as a disgruntled former employee of Astraeus Airlines, the Boeing 757 Captain is hatching a three-tier plan to salvage the financially strapped Icelandic business-owned company, which ordered all pilots and staff to cease operations on Nov. 21.

Airline Forces Passengers to Pay $31,500 for Fuel — Or Be Stranded [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:37:24 +0000

Flying the friendly skies is one thing. Being forced to pony up the cash to do it while en route is something else entirely.

But that’s what happened on a flight operated by Austria-based carrier Comtel earlier this week.

Finally! Astrophysicist Figures Out Most Efficient Airplane Boarding System [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000

Anybody who’s ever boarded an airplane knows that there is something terribly inefficient about the slow, agonizing process. Astrophysicist Jason Steffen decided to do something about the messy procedure, using science to develop a plane boarding method that cuts seating times in half. The idea is simple enough — passengers with children still board first, but then passengers whose [...]

Will American Airlines' New Boarding Method Save Time or Create Chaos?

Shauna Wright — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:11:26 +0000

For about a decade, airlines and academics have tried to figure out the fastest way to load passengers onto a plane. The less time spent on boarding, the more revenue-generating flights airlines can squeeze into a day. In fact, according to a 2008 study in the Journal of Transport Management, every minute cut on boarding can save $30 per flight.

Now American Airlines is trying out a new boarding method, and reaction is mixed.

Man Kicked Off Plane For Cursing

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:36:10 +0000

Robert Sayegh wanted to know why it was taking so long for his Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight from Detroit to Newark to get off the runway. So he made a general inquiry as to the plane’s grounded nature that admittedly contained R-rated language. “I never directed it at anybody, I was just kind of saying it [...]