February 2010

Made For Each Other

February 23, 2010 Couples Stories

I am a travel agent, specializing in the Caribbean and Mexico. I have had many crazy flight experiences, but last year on a flight to Jamaica really takes the cake! My co-workers and I were ready for a week in paradise away from our clients and boarded our plane in Charlotte for what we thought [...]

Read the full article →

Two Vomit Stories For Your Reading Pleasure

February 22, 2010 Medical & Illness Stories

I don’t travel much. Life sometimes changes things and air travel is by far the quickest way. I flew to Orlando for the weekend from Michigan. The trip down was nice and pleasant. The return, however, was another story. The plane was packed; no empty seats. I’m at the window with a newly married couple [...]

Read the full article →

Sick And Tired Of Being Asked To Change Seats

February 21, 2010 Airplane Stories

This happened on a flight from San Francisco to New Orleans connecting through Dallas. I was flying to visit family for a long weekend and had packed just a small carry-on. My flight to DFW was easy and hassle free. However, once I boarded the plane to go to New Orleans things got interesting. I [...]

Read the full article →

Wind Chill

February 21, 2010 Airplane Stories

When I was 18 my girlfriend, my mother and I were travelling back home to the UK after a wonderful adventure on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. We would be flying to Manchester in the UK, in a total three hour flight. I had a rather painful sunburn on [...]

Read the full article →

Olfactory Assault

February 20, 2010 Odor Stories

Let’s begin at the beginning to properly set this “olfactory assault” in the proper perspective. A small group of friends and I were traveling from the U.S. to a small ( translation: thatched roof ) airport in Papua New Guinea for a 2 week dive trip. So far so good after numerous connecting flights in [...]

Read the full article →

Delayed Due To No-Fly List Passengers

February 19, 2010 Delay Stories

In July of 2005, I was on an Air France flight from Charles de Gaulle, or however it’s spelled. Anyway, I was 17 and coming home from a wonderful 3 week tour of France, Germany, and Austria. Unfortunately, the return home was muddled up a bit, as the London tube bombings occurred two days before [...]

Read the full article →

Ex-Pilot Comments On Changes Over The Years

February 19, 2010 Flying Hell Commentary

I want to tell you that back in the 70′s air travel was an adventure and people who sat in First Class did indeed wear suit coats and women wore dresses. The food (even in coach) was actually tasty and you could tell that people cared when you had cloth napkins and fine wine glasses [...]

Read the full article →

So Many Stories. Where To Begin?

February 19, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Reno, Nevada. United Airlines. 1989. This airport is in the middle of the city and the flight path is surrounded by hotels. There is a severe windstorm but the pilot decides to land anyway. I have a window seat and am watching in disbelief as the runway veers from left to right as the pilot [...]

Read the full article →

Door Covered With Frost

February 17, 2010 Airplane Stories

OK, I grew up both in the US and Japan so I grew up flying. This flight goes down as by far the WORST flight of my life!!!! I now live in Rome, but I spent a lovely 2 weeks vacation in Japan and I was coming back to Rome on Finnair. After one of [...]

Read the full article →

Air France IS Hell!

February 17, 2010 Airport Stories

It was about 5 or so years ago when my wife and I decided to travel to Korea to visit the family and have a nice long vacation. We booked a flight with Air France from Frankfurt to Seoul via Paris. Everything was fine in Frankfurt; we boarded our flight and touched down in Paris [...]

Read the full article →

Page 2 of 512345