Flying Hell Blog

Welcome To Our Updated Site!

August 22, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

Welcome to the updated Flights From Hell website. You’ll still find all of the stories and comments that the previous site had – all 369 stories and 4,020 comments were individually cut and pasted into the updated site. But you’ll also find that surfing through our pages offers a much more enjoyable and satisfying experience. [...]

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Passenger Experiences A Flight From Hell Meltdown

August 9, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

The video below, featuring a poor passenger facing more flying aggravations than he can handle, helped to provide inspiration for the Flights From Hell website:

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“Flight Of Fear” Cartoon

July 22, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

The This Modern World cartoon below features a panoply of flying hell issues which are described in numerous stories on our site – poor customer service, portly passengers, cell phone use, delays, annoying passengers, dissatisfactory flight attendant service, crying babies, animals, lousy food, plane problems, lost luggage and, of course, the dreaded reclining seats. Can [...]

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The Perfect Passenger

April 22, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

How should passengers behave and appear in order to be considered perfect? Based on annoyances described in stories received, we’ve come up with a list of airline passenger don’ts in order to avoid offending everybody in the world: The Perfect Passenger… Doesn’t talk too much Doesn’t expel unpleasant gasses Doesn’t pick or scratch his nose, [...]

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Airplane Restaurant

March 22, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

How many times have you wished that you could board a plane without security hassles, or without the worries of missing your flight or the plane having to land on the Hudson River? And how many times have you desired a decent meal on a flight? In Taipei, Taiwan you can have all of the [...]

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Extreme Flights From Hell

February 20, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

While a flight from hell can certainly be traumatic, its impact usually lessens over time (especially after venting by writing about it and submitting the story to our website!). However, some flights unfortunately fall into the Extreme category, and the impact of the experience can be long lasting. What’s depicted in the first 5 minutes [...]

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Those Exciting Luggage Carousels

January 19, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

The webpage, Airport Luggage Carousels – A Worldwide Report, is from the appropriately named website, Dull Men’s Club. For most people, the only thrill received from carousels is from the sense of relief that they get when their luggage is spotted. Not so for the site’s owner, Grover Click, who loves finding his bags because [...]

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2008 Flying Hell Year In Review

January 19, 2009 Flying Hell Blog

With the closing of yet another year, it’s that time to look back at the flying hell events that took place in 2008. Increased costs for services increased passenger frustrations. Packed overhead bins, due in part to charges for checked luggage, added to the despair. The TSA came under fire, including from a woman upset [...]

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The Glamorous Days Of Flying

October 19, 2008 Flying Hell Blog

With all of the problems associated with today’s flying hell experience, it’s difficult not to reminisce about what it was like when people actually enjoyed flying. Here are some articles about the golden era of flying: A PDX Airport Flashback In Time and Mom Tells How Flying Used To Be. The writer of this New York Times [...]

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Seat 29E

October 19, 2008 Flying Hell Blog

FlightsFromHell.com received a document in PDF format that purportedly was an original complaint letter written by a passenger to an airline company. While a quick net search revealed the real poop – the letter has been making the rounds for a while – we’re going to post it anyway since it’s right on target with [...]

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