Jetstar Australia have announced a rise in the cost of checked-in baggage at the airport. From August 15 domestic passengers that haven’t pre-booked baggage will face a $A10 ($US7.87, €6.67, £6.06) increase to $A60 ($US47.24, €40, £36.38), plus $A15 ($US11.21, €10, £9.10) for every kilogram over 15kgs. Carry-on is still set at maximum 2 items…
Passengers on a recent Southwest Airlines flight across the country took part in a “toilet paper race” to pass the time while in the air. Flight attendants on the flight from Raleigh to Denver, which is slated to be four hours long, decided to pit the passengers against each other mid-flight. The side of the…
Saudia Airlines has warned passengers that it will refuse boarding to anyone it doesn’t consider has dressed appropriately. The airline has issued a strict dress code that says which parts of male and female passengers’ bodies should be covered. The national carrier of Saudi Arabia — a staunchly conservative country that doesn’t allow bare arms…
Officials say three flight attendants became ill on a plane headed to Barbados, causing it to return to a Florida airport. JetBlue flight #B6385 took off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 1.16pm Eastern Time, but returned just a little less than an hour later when three flight attendants got sick. Officials say the plane…
Passengers arriving at Adelaide Airport August 11 were left confused after a hastily planned taxi driver strike. Approximately 100 Taxi drivers went on strike protesting over Adelaide Airport’s announcement the previous day that they would allow UberX pick-ups from the airport immediately. Taxi drivers blockaded the ride-sharing area designated for UberX pickups. At one stage Airport…
One passenger raised a ruckus on a Spring Airlines flight to Shanghai earlier this week, threatening to blow up the plane if it was not taken instead to Taipei. The flight was traveling from the South Korean resort island of Jeju to Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Monday night when one male passenger asked the…
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have released one man held after the July 29 anti-terrorism raids in Sydney, and have charged Khaled Khayat, 49, of Lakemba and Mahmoud Khayat, 32, of Punchbowl with terrorism related offences. They were denied bail in a brief court hearing on August 4. The AFP Deputy Commissioner, Michael Phelan, said that…
On Monday morning, three passengers tried to get on the Ryanair flight from Gdańsk to Warsaw in Poland by chasing a taxiing airplane on the airport apron. They forced the gate door and entered the apron on their own, but Polish border guard treated them very leniently. Lech Wałęsa Airport in the coastal city of Gdańsk…
Airport ground staff have been caught on video throwing passengers’ suitcases onto a luggage belt in footage which will disturb other travelers – and fired as a result. The workers at Orlando International Airport in Florida were filmed as they raised bags above their heads and sent them crashing onto the conveyer while they unloaded…
The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has issued Air Transat a please explain after 2 of it’s European flights to Montreal spent hours on the tarmac with passengers onboard on July 31. The flights were 2 of approximately 20 that were diverted to Ottaw a during a chain of storms affecting Montreal. Flight TS507 from Rome…
A sewage leak at Nashville International Airport may have contaminated about 200 Southwest Airlines passengers’ bags, the airline said in a statement Thursday. Airport officials told ABC News that the source of the problem was a single toilet in a women’s restroom inside the terminal, closely positioned over the baggage handling area. The sewage flowed through the…
The sky over the US has turned into a giant canvas for a pilot at the controls of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Flight data shows that the Boeing 787-8 (reg. N7874) from Seattle early this morning, with the crew carefully flying a path that forms a huge Dreamliner across the United States of America. It…