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5 Right and Wrong Ways to Get Your Flight Attendant's Attention

Bobby Laurie | Posted 05.06.2013 | Travel
Bobby Laurie

Your flight attendant is a very popular person! With fewer flights comes fuller planes and a smaller flight attendant to passenger ratio. In fact, the...

Is Being a Flight Attendant the Worst Job in 2013?

Bobby Laurie | Posted 04.30.2013 | Travel
Bobby Laurie

Do your research before just applying to any airline. Each one of them has a different definition of how and what your seniority means and how it'll affect your life. Make the right choice for you.

The Five Kinds Of People You Meet At An Airport Screening Area

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.10.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Shouldn't our taxpayer-supported federal screeners be making the process easier instead of harder? At the very least, shouldn't the TSA try to do a better job of telling one group apart from the other?

Trapped on a Plane With an in-Flight Movie: 6 Ways to Deal

Common Sense Media | Posted 04.09.2013 | Parents
Common Sense Media

You're trapped on an airplane playing a movie on the drop-down screen that's totally wrong for your kids. Here are some ways to address the problem.

America's Meanest Airlines

U.S. News Travel | Posted 04.09.2013 | Travel
U.S. News Travel

ellenm1 / Flickr The 2013 Airline Quality Ratings (AQR) report -- released on Monday, April 8 -- shows that the U.S. Department of Transportation re...

Airline To Charge Passengers By Weight

AP | By FILI SAGAPOLUTELE and NICK PERRY | Posted 04.08.2013 | Business

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — A tiny Samoa airline is giving passengers a big reason to lose weight: tickets sold not by the seat, but by the kil...

How To Lose A 'Free' Airline Ticket

Christopher Elliott | Posted 05.04.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Points are the airline's property and can be confiscated at any time, for any reason. To some air travelers, that makes them worthless.

5 Ways Airlines Can Improve Customer Service Now

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.27.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Let's face it, airlines aren't exactly known for their outstanding customer service. They haven't been for years. But what can airlines, which are currently enjoying record profits, do right now to improve their service? Here are five steps that would cost virtually nothing.

Torture At 30,000 Feet

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.13.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Are flight attendants behaving like petty tyrants on the plane, sometimes at the cost of our comfort, or are air travelers driving airline employees to it?

How To Fly for Almost Free

Quora | Posted 04.07.2013 | Travel
Quora

This post originally appeared on Quora. Post by Charles Zhang, social ecommerce @ checkya.com Next week, I will be flying on United Airlines from ...

Hey Airline Passengers, Want To Snitch On Your Seatmate?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 01.28.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

On a recent flight from Chicago to Philadelphia, Melissa Brown sat next to a dilemma: a fellow passenger whose actions could crash the plane, but probably wouldn't.

Is It Ever OK To Steal From An Airline?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 03.25.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Lauren's case isn't easy for this consumer advocate. She knowingly stole from a business that has, in the past, mistreated her. Is that ever justified?

Why Airline Loyalty Programs Aren't

Christopher Elliott | Posted 03.16.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Its hard to think of any other business that can dilute its product like this and still keep its customers. The only frequent fliers who seem to win at this share the airlines' belief that rules are meant to be bent, if not broken.

3 Surprises Lurking In Every Airfare

Christopher Elliott | Posted 03.09.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Your airline ticket isn't what it seems to be.

A User's Manual For Planes

Bobby Laurie | Posted 02.26.2013 | Travel
Bobby Laurie

t's not a power trip for us, it's a simple power down for you. Just do it. You know what we're talking about. The time has come. Just. Turn. Them. Off.

A Flight Attendant's Perspective On In-Flight Phone Calls

Bobby Laurie | Posted 02.16.2013 | Travel
Bobby Laurie

In the year 2012, how many people actually board a plane not knowing that these devices need to be turned off? I say if you have a smart phone you should have the smarts to know what is and isn't allowed...

Fellow Flyers Who Drive Us Crazy

U.S. News Travel | Posted 12.18.2012 | Travel
U.S. News Travel

We can't seem to go a week without reading yet another story about airline missteps. But for most of us, it's not the airline staff that makes us dread a long flight: It's our fellow passengers.

The Worst Airline Purser In History?

Dane Steele Green | Posted 07.17.2012 | Travel
Dane Steele Green

The entire flight was under Ted's control, he knew it, and it was almost a dictatorship. No fun, no class, and mixed with a bit of fear to stand up, or even to sit in your seat.

I'm Tweeting on a Jet Plane

Julia Allison | Posted 04.09.2012 | Media
Julia Allison

Most airlines recognize Twitter and Facebook as effective and easy methods of both informing customers and mitigating public-relations disasters. The question really is: How comfortable are they in their social-media skin?

Airlines Play The Victim After Hefty Delay Fine

Kate Hanni | Posted 01.18.2012 | Travel
Kate Hanni

The fact is that American Eagle was fined for loading 15 aircraft that they knew had no chance of making an on-time departure and for those flights' passengers spending hours on the tarmac.

Flight Attendant's Stolen Money Flushed Down The Toilet

AP | Posted 11.14.2011 | Travel

BOSTON -- Massachusetts State Police say they have arrested a man returning from a vacation in Iceland after he allegedly stole $300 from a flight att...

Air India Passengers Fume After Spending 9 Hours On The Tarmac

Posted 12.17.2011 | Travel

A combination of London fog and aviation rules left an Air India flight stuck on the tarmac at Gatwick Airport for nine hours Monday, reports Agence F...

Red Alert: Theft Of Silver Salt & Pepper Pots Shakes Airline Industry

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Dolan | Posted 12.07.2011 | Travel

No longer will Virgin Atlantic Upper Class passengers be able to season their in-flight meal from lavish silver pots. The airline announced Friday it ...

Airline Breast Exam Angers Flight Attendants

Posted 10.25.2011 | Travel

Flight attendant hopefuls in South Korea are accusing Garuda Indonesia airline of inappropriately handling their breasts in medical examinations, Agen...

GE Surveys Future Of Flight And The World's Most Popular Airports

AOL Travel News | Posted 11.08.2011 | Travel

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