2008

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With airlines starting to charge fees for checked baggage, demands for limited overhead bin space will surely increase. Let’s hope that as people try to cram things in, what’s shown on the video below won’t occur!

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Three months ago my boyfriend’s brother…call him “Tom,” calls us to say he is coming to visit for 3 days. My boyfriend….call him “Jerry,” hasn’t seen his brother in 3 years so we are very excited. He gets a flight from Philly PA to Dubuque IA with a layover in Chicago. He leaves Philly at […]

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This happened a couple of months ago. I was flying from Hawaii to Malaysia with a overnight transit in Taiwan. I have a cat, so when I bought my ticket I asked the airline what the requirements were to fly with my cat. It required lots of paperwork and specific measurements of cages allowed on […]

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I recently flew back to my home town next to a young man that obviously had a cold. To my relief he’d always cough in his sweater. He seemed to have the sniffles. I can only guess he was using his sweater as a giant hanky too. Well, exactly 36 hours later I woke up […]

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American Airlines LGA to West Palm Beach March 27, 2008 Flight #1229 8:25AM Last week I had the misfortune to be on your flight from JFK to WPB. I was seated in seat 23B right behind two men (row 22 seat A & B) that also boarded in NY. They were part of a group […]

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Sometimes cramped conditions on a plane leads to embarrassing situations, such as this one.

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I was invited to my niece’s college graduation commencement ceremony, plus 3 formal dinners. The airline I traveled on lost my baggage. They had me go to the airport 3 different times….no baggage. We went to all the ceremonies. The relatives and friends were dressed to the nines. As for me, well I wore a […]

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2007 was a zany year for travel – read this article about the weirdest travel stories and this article about the strangest travel stories. The 2007 airline news story with the most “legs” was the one about Kyla Ebbert, the Hooters waitress who got kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing skimpy attire. […]

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Moscow, Russia The narrow corridors of shops within the transit area offers thousands of copper cylinders on the ceiling peering down with constant video surveillance – the bustling and shuffling of designer footwear resurrects cigarette ashes into the air from the concrete surface. A twelve-hour layover in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo transit area has few advantages. You […]

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My husband, two kids (12 and 14) and I flew from Hartford to Honolulu to visit my family this March. I am a nervous flier, but I had been noticing that my daughter was picking up on it and somehow managed to convince myself, along with her, that it was okay to just ‘give up […]

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A few years ago I was on a business trip to the Orient visiting Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul. This story tells of the frightening experience I had during my visit to Seoul, Korea and the problems encountered one week later when I was due to leave for Hong Kong. I was arriving in […]

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