About 2 months ago, a flight I expected would be more pleasant than usual turned out to be a real flight from hell. Before my flight, I used my miles to upgrade to first class on an AA flight. I thought this would make my flight much more comfortable than usual… I was wrong. Next […]
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My fiancee (now wife) and I were just about to land in Amsterdam (red-eye from Detroit, Airbus A330, seats A & B, ultimately going to Scotland for her sister’s wedding) when the passenger in seat C started shaking. A friend of theirs from another row came to their side after the actual landing, but a […]
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Some years ago I was on an overnight TWA flight from New York to London. We took off around 11:00 P.M. with me seated on the aisle. Shortly after takeoff the woman seated next to me at the window needed a trip to the restroom, requiring me to get up and stand aside in the […]
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It was April 16, 2007–Marathon Monday in Boston–and a very bad storm had blown into town. Unfortunately that was also the day we were flying with our children and my husband’s parents to celebrate my mother-in-law’s birthday at Colonial Williamsburg. Our flight to Newport News, Va was one of the few to get out on […]
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I recently flew on an international American Airlines flight. I generally try to avoid American Airlines because they’ve got the worst fleet of aircraft around, but their prices were so much better that I caved. Mistake number one (mistake number two was not paying for an upgraded seat on the plane). I board the cattle […]
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The worst flight of my life turned into the all around worst experience of my life because it didn’t end when the plane did. The background info: I was returning from a friend’s wedding in the Dominican Republic, and like everyone else on the direct flight back to Regina, I had contracted the Norwalk virus that was […]
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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 […]
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When I was 18, I was flying back (on my second air flight ever!) from visiting my married sister in Nevada. Now, in my extended family, I am known as ‘the sickly one.’ Everything that can happen does to me. On this flight, I boarded feeling cheery, excited, and well rested. I spoke to the […]
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I was flying home from a relaxing vacation in Lakeland Florida and of course our flight flew from Orlando…. home of Disney World. As my luck would be, the flight was full and who would sit beside me a lady who gets very sick on planes. As the plane took off her appearance started to […]
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Many years ago I was on a return flight from Mexico to the U.S. The flight turned to hell when 50-75% of the passengers simultaneously had reactions to food we had all eaten in Mexico. At first, it was just constant people going to the bathroom with diarrhea or vomit. With about an hour remaining […]
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My worst flight ever! Back in the mid-1970s, I boarded a small twin engine commuter flight from Amarillo, TX to Bakersfield, CA. It was a very hot August and the air was very turbulent. About midway through the flight, the air conditioning failed on the aircraft while the turbulence was getting worse. Shortly thereafter someone […]
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This story is a reflection of my world. It’s not a hell story, but really funny… Years ago, I’m taking a short flight from ATL to RDU. I had just gotten back from being stationed in Germany, and was on the last leg of a 19 hour flight day. I was in my BDU’s, so […]
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