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Airline Employee Charged With Attempted Booze Theft

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Jesse Joseph Repetti, Airtran, Theft From Airtran, Crime, Travel News, Beverage Cart Thief, Theft, Airtran Theft, Travel News

A 28-year-old airline employee was charged with theft after trying to pilfer mini-bottles of booze and potato chips from a parked plane at Milwaulkee'...

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Southwest Flight Attendant Union Reaches Seniority Deal

AP | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Airtran, Video, Southwest Airtran Merger, Southwest Airlines, Southwest Flight Attendants, Southwest Airtran, Flight Attendent Unions, Business News, Flight Attendents, Southwest Flight Attendants Union, Business News

DALLAS -- Southwest Airlines Co. flight attendants are the latest group of workers to agree on how they will integrate their seniority with that of wo...

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FBI: Woman Made Bomb Threat To Delay Husband's Flight

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Fbi, Airtran, Airports, Airport Security, False Terrorism Threats, Crime, Travel News

A woman upset with her husband called in a bomb threat in an attempt to ground his flight at Los Angeles International, the FBI has alleged in a new c...

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Notorious Company Changes Its Name Again

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Valuejet, Airtran, Blackwater Guards, Video, Blackwater Security, Blackwater, Company Name Changes, Blackwater Iraq, Blackwater Name Change, Philip Morris, XE Services, Blackwater Investigation, Altria Group, Business News

An infamous company is attempting a complete brand makeover -- again. The private security firm formerly known as Blackwater and most recently kno...

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Women Kicked Off AirTranFlight Blame Ornery Flight Attendant

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Women Kicked Off Flight, Airtran, Women Kicked Off Air Tran, Flight Attendant, Palm Beach International Airport, Airlines, Video, Travel News

Three New York-bound women were kicked off their AirTran flight Monday, and they say a disagreeable flight attendant is to blame. Marilyn Miller, C...

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WATCH: Couple Sues Airline Over Cockroaches

Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Airtran, Video, Airtran Lawsuit, Global Pulse, Harry Marsh Kaitlin Rush, Couple Sues Airtran, Travel News

A Charlotte, North Carolina couple is suing AirTran Airways for "negligence and recklessness, intentional infliction of emotional distress, nuisance, ...

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The Horror Of AirTran

Rahim Kanani | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Flight Delays, Airtran, Airlines, Flight Attendants, Flight Cancellations, Boston, Washington DC, Airports, Logan Airport, Flights, Travel News

Cut to five hours later: We approach AirTran again and inquire about the flight. The man behind the desk was wide-eyed and high-strung, with a wrinkled white dress shirt and untucked in the back.

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AirTran Adopts 'Too Fat To Fly'

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Kevin Smith Southwest, Global Pulse, Airtran, Video, Southwest Airlines, Southwest Airtran, Southwest Too Fat to Fly, Travel News

Southwest Airlines has garnered a lot of attention in the past few years for booting passengers for being "too fat to fly." "Clerks" director Kevin...

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Google Offering Free WiFi on Three Airlines Over the Holidays

Sue Frause | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virgin Airlines, Google, Airtran, Airlines, Wifi, Holiday Travel, Delta Airlines, Travel News

Google at Frankfurt Book Fair. Sue Frause photo. Flying over the holidays? If so, good news for Wi-Fi in the sky users. Google Chrome has teamed u...

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Southwest to Purchase AirTran

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Fornaro, Airtran, Southwest Airlines, Business News, Gary Kelly, Airlines, Mergers and Acquisitions, Travel News

How much did Southwest Airlines covet access to the traffic-rich airports in Atlanta and New York? Enough to offer AirTran Airways more than $7 a shar...

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Muhammad Abu Tahir, Man Who Caused Emergency Plane Landing In Denver, Sentenced To Three Months

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — A Virginia man who disrupted a cross-country flight that led to the plane being diverted to Colorado has been sentenced to three months...

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Two-Inch Turtle Causes Taxiing Plane To Return To Gate

AP | KATE BRUMBACK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turtles, Turtle Plane, Carley Helm, Airtran, Traveling With Pets, Pet Travel, Turtle Power, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Faa, Cdc, Pets, Peta, Neytiri, World News

ATLANTA — A caged, 2-inch turtle traveling with a 10-year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters o...

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Frontier Airlines Lives On, Will Become Official Brand Name Of Republic Airways

AP | JOSHUA FREED | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republic Airways Holdings, Airtran, Southwest Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Midwest Airlines, Nasdaq:Rjet, Republic Airways Brand Midwest Frontier, Rjet, Frontier Airlines Brand, Denver News

MINNEAPOLIS — The Midwest Airlines name is going away. Republic Airways Holdings Inc., which owns both Midwest and Frontier Airlines, said on T...

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Slippery Numbers

Simon Sinek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airtran, US Constitution, Start With Why, Advertising, United Airlines, Continental Airlines, Marketing, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Business News

I write the most popular blog on the internet* *comparison made to less popular blogs.

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Muhammed Abu Tahir Caused Emergency Plane Landing By Shaving With Shirt Off Drunk In Bathroom

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Security, Muhammed Abu Tahir, Airtran, Emergency Landing Colorado Springs, Norad, F-16 Fighter Jets, Man Shaves on Plane, Denver News

Bizarre details are emerging about an emergency plane landing in Colorado Springs on Friday that prompted the deployment of two F-16 fighter jets from...

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Muhammad Abu Tahir Freed On Bond

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: SHirless Shaving, Airtran, Muhammed Abu Tahir, Diverted Plane, Unruly Passenger, Denver News

DENVER — An airline passenger accused of locking himself in a bathroom to shave and prompting his flight to be tailed by two military jets won't...

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Flights Diverted and Other Airline Security Concerns

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Hedlund Johnson, Airtran, Detroit Airport, Jaws, Homeland Security, Hawaiian Airlines, Delta, Muhammad Abu Tahir, Liberty Airport, Kurt Haskell, Muttallab, World News

It's usually wise not to let media reports distort your perception of reality, but I'm getting nervous about this apparent uptick in aviation security events.

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Muhammad Abu Tahir Charged With Disrupting Crew On AirTran Flight

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airplane Bathroom Shaving, Airtran, Man With No Shirt, Shirtless Shaving, Colorado Springs, Muhammad Abu Tahir, Denver News

DENVER — A passenger on a diverted AirTran Airways flight accused of becoming unruly after he was refused more alcohol was charged Wednesday wit...

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Dress Arab -- Make $

Dean Obeidallah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights, Jet Blue, Islamaphobia, Airtran, Arab, Discrimination, Muslim, Tsa, Raed Jarrar, Arab T Shirt Jet Blue, Politics News

I implored Arabs to shop at stores that can help you dress "white" like Banana Republic -- the Mecca of clothing for white people. But now I'm here to tell everyone to ignore that advice in light of today's news.

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Muslims "Off" a Plane

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Muslim Family Airplane, Airtran, Tsa, Colin Powell, Obama Muslim, wwII Internment Camps, War on Terror, Internment Camps, Gallup Polls, Atif Irfan, Fbi, Airport Security, Who Speaks for Islam?, Flying After 9/11, TSA Security, Air Travel, Racial Profiling, Arab Americans, Al Qaeda, Inayet Sahin, Airport Security Water Bottles, Muslim Prejudice, Patriot Act, American Muslims, Fear-Mongering, Muslims and Air Travel, Transportation Security Administration, Extrajudicial Detention, Politics News

We in the US are currently engaged in a "war on terror," but this does not give a democratic and free country license to be overwhelmed by fear of its own Muslim and Middle Eastern citizens.

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Still With Us: The Politics of Fear

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Activist Judges, Islamophobia, Terrorism, Atif Irfan, Airtran, Keith Rollins, Obama Muslim, Barack Obama, Politics News

The past few weeks have given us yet more evidence that our post-9/11 Islamophobia is still alive and well.

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(Not) Flying While Muslim

Dean Obeidallah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Muslim, Airport, Arab, Terrorism, Discrimination, Flying, Airtran, Irfan, Obeidallah, Muslim Airtran, Airtran Arab, Dean Obeidallah, Not Flying While Muslim, Flying While Muslim, Arab While Flying, (Not) Flying While Muslim, World News

As an Arab-American comedian who flies a great deal for work, I want to offer my experience to other brown people in the hopes it helps you get on your flight.

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236.com: Tips For Muslims Who Like To Travel By Air

236.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airtran, Anti-Muslim Bias, 236.Com, American Muslims, Politics News

Nine members of an American Muslim family were removed from an AirTran flight on Thursday after comments made by two of the family members were miscon...

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