airlines
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Man Arrested for Storming an American Airlines Cockpit in a Fit of Rage
The countless delays and cancellations plaguing air travel right now (not to mention the packed planes, the skyrocketing ticket prices, and mask mandates) have left many airline passengers angrier than we’ve ever seen them before. Most air travellers have been seen taking their air rage out on flight attendants or their seatmates, but on Tuesday,…
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This Ridiculous $350 Million Luxury Jet Concept Has A Balcony And Disco
The maintenance, repair and overhaul arm of German airline Lufthansa has quite possibly the most ridiculous news you’re going to read all day. Its Explorer concept turns an Airbus A330 into a private jet modelled after a superyacht, complete with a balcony, disco and glass floor. Oh, and it costs over a quarter of a…
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Frontier Airlines Attendants Put on Paid Leave After Duct-Taping Violent Passenger to Seat
Frontier Airlines initially suspended a flight crew for failing to follow “proper policies” by duct-taping a hostile passenger to his seat, but it appears to have now walked back the disciplinary measures after social media users and the flight attendants’ union judged the crew’s actions to be quite reasonable. According to ABC 6, a 22-year-old…
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Hackers Just Looted Passenger Data From Some of the World’s Biggest Airlines
SITA, a large data firm that works with some of the world’s largest airlines, announced Thursday that it had been the victim of a “highly sophisticated cyberattack,” the likes of which compromised information on hundreds of thousands of airline passengers all over the world.