Media

Print, Web & Television

CNN - How old is the plane you’re flying on?
“‘There’s a strange whistling in the cabin,’ wrote a poster recently on Flightsfromhell.com, recalling a tense journey on what appeared to be an old plane.” more>>

CNN – Surviving the Talkative Airplane Seatmate
“Gregg Rottler, founder of Flightsfromhell.com, said he tries to stop talkers in their tracks by bringing a bag full of newspapers and reading throughout the flight.” more>>

CBC - Stuck next to a screaming kid on a flight? It could be worse
“‘Then, there is a story that’s going to have the word cannibal and I’ll leave it at that,’ said Gregg Rottler, a 54-year-old county health officer from Tampa, Fla., and web genius behind Flightsfromhell.com.” more>>

CBC – UA to charge obese flyers for 2nd seat
“‘I was immediately squashed into the window. I was mad; I didn’t pay to be smothered for five hours,’ griped one traveller in a story on the Flightsfromhell.com website.” more>>
 
PeterGreenberg.com – The Worst Flights From Hell Can Now Be Seen Online
“But passengers who really feel the need to vent now have an outlet for their frustration. The Web site FlightsFromHell.com allows both travelers and flight attendants to share stories of particularly awful in-flight experiences.” more>>

Hispanic Business - Flights from Hell: Vent Your In-Air (or Runway) Nightmares 
“For anyone who has flown more than just a handful of times, there is no doubt a story to be told about a flight from hell. Submit or read others’ tales on Flightsfromhell.com.” more>>

CNN – ‘Mr. Poopy Pants’ and fees frustrate flyers
“‘We’ve all had our flying hell experiences,’ said Gregg Rottler, creator of FlightsFromHell.com.” more>>
 
MSNBC – Flying is scary, well-mannered travelers confirm
“You see, this week’s column is devoted to spooky stories sent in by readers. Because there were so many stories to choose from, I asked Gregg Rottler, captain of the scary-all-the-time Flights from Hell Web site, to help me choose the kookiest and most unpredictable tales to share.” more>>
 
St. Petersburg Times – FlightsfromHell.com lets anonymous travelers share bad experiences
“Tracking the turbulent state of airlines — and the people flying them these days — keeps him busy. Anonymous travelers regularly send in stories of in-flight horrors to his FlightsfromHell.com Web site. They read like dispatches from the front lines.” more>>
 
Tampa Bay Times – Flights From Hell
“Gregg Rottler of Lutz chronicles the weird and ugly side of air travel on the Web. Anonymous travelers regularly send in stories of in-flight horrors to his FlightsfromHell.com Web site…” more>>
 
WFLA-TV & WTTA-TV
Tampa, Florida TV newscast about FlightsFromHell.com. Interview conducted at Tampa International Airport. video>> 

MSNBC – Flying — and surviving — the unfriendly skies
“’People are reaching the boiling point,’ suggests Gregg Rottler, a Tampa-based state health officer who launched flightsfromhell.com last year as an online forum for travelers who want to vent about their air-travel horror stories.” more>>

London Times Online -  10 travel websites to watch: April 
“The shambolic opening of Terminal 5 will surely see a surge in ranting entries to FlightsFromHell.com…” more>>

New York Times – Aboard Planes, Class Conflict
“Mr. Fesler is hardly alone in his antipathy toward the airlines, as anyone who has spent time reading the angry customer postings on Web sites like flyertalk.com, airlinerage.com and flightsfromhell.com knows.” more>>

Seacoastonline – Flotsam and Jetsam 
“It had to happen: Blogs and interactive Web sites are now providing a conduit for whiners. Flightsfromhell.com and dinnersfromhell.com are but two examples of where you can go to lodge your complaints …; and enjoy those of others.” more>>

Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Flights from hell
“Everybody needs a place to vent, especially when it comes to airline travels. And as more people hit the roads this Thanksgiving, FlightsFromHell.com might be the right anecdote to travel frustrations.”  more>>

Hartford Courant – Web Sites Collect Hellish Travel Stories
“I have to admit I found the stories on flightsfromhell.com frighteningly compelling. I thought I’d had some bad flights but there’s no way I could match these stories.”  more>>

New York Times – Venting, Yes. Profiting, No.
“’It clicked to me that Flightsfromhell would be a cool site,’ he said. But surely, Flightsfromhell.com wasn’t available. It was.”  more>>

MSNBC – Freaky flights: Should you greet the gremlin?
“And I’d definitely send my story to Gregg Rottler. By day Rottler supervises regulatory programs for a county health department in Florida. But at night, he stays busy tending to the cauldron he calls flightsfromhell.com.” more>>

Radio

WWBA, News Talk 820, Wining And Dining with Mike Reeves, Tampa Bay, Florida

WMJI, Majic 105.7 FM, Lanigan & Malone Morning Show, Cleveland, Ohio

WLUP-FM, Jonathon Brandmeier Radio Show, Chicago, Illinois

98-5 KYGO, Morning Show, Denver, Colorado

WPHT 1210AM, Michael Smerconish Morning Show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Nationally Syndicated)

AM770 CHQR, Informed Traveller, Calgary, British Columbia article>>

98.5 WNCX, The Morning Show, Cleveland, Ohio

WAQY Rock 102, Bax & O’Brien Show, Springfield, Massachusetts

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