The airline experience has become miserable

[China]

 

[China]

Oops: Airline Leaked The Entire Federal No Fly List

 

CommuteAir, which operates Embraer ERJ-145s for United Airlines, left the entire U.S. federal No Fly List on a server that was easily hacked.

 

While the original requirement to show ID at the airport was a political decision, in order to appear to be ‘doing something’ after TWA flight 800, the reason you have to show I.D. at airport security now is so that the government can compare you against its various watch list, from the No Fly List to various enhanced screening lists.

 

If you didn’t have to be ID’d, you could fly under any name you wished. The government might be looking for Ayman al-Zawahiri, but he could just buy a ticket under a different name.

The lists themselves are secret. They won’t tell you that you are on them. They may assign you a redress number to show that you’re not the Ayman al-Zawahiri they happen to be looking for but they won’t ever say that name was on the list.

And people get on these lists by mistake, for instance because an FBI agent checked the wrong box on a form. Or they get on out of revenge, against people who refused to act as informants. It’s pre-crime profiling, a bureaucrat puts your name on the list and imposes a punishment without any due process or even proof you’ve actually done anything to warrant it.
Still, the list is considered both highly secret (but not classified) and crucial by the federal government. But it’s also given to airlines.

 

On the list were several notable figures, including the recently freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, alongside over 16 potential aliases for him. …Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list. …Another individual, according to crimew, was listed as 8 years old based on their birth year.

 

While the larger Terrorism Screening Database was suspected to contain nearly two million names, the actual No Fly List which bans boarding aircraft in the United States, has been believed to be much smaller (perhaps 100,000 – 200,000 names). CommuteAir says the data they hosted was the No Fly List, but the list they exposed is much larger than expected.

 

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[China]

On 1/2/2023 at 8:25 PM, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

US airport worker warned before being sucked into jet engine

 

A worker at an airport in Alabama who died after being sucked into a jet engine this past New Year’s Eve had been warned repeatedly about the dangers of going near it, federal investigators revealed this week.

 

The Montgomery regional airport employee, along with other colleagues of the facility’s ground crew, had undergone a “safety huddle” about how to move around the plane at the center of the case 10 minutes before it arrived at the gate on 31 December, and there was another similar briefing just before the aircraft arrived at the gate, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a report Monday.

 

The pilots of the American Eagle jet had decided to leave the plane running at the airport gate for a cool-down period of two minutes because an auxiliary power unit on board wasn’t working, and the engines needed to stay on until the plane could be linked up to a power source on the ground, said the report from the agency which investigates aviation-related deaths.

 

According to the report, the pilots of the plane alerted airport workers that the engines would stay on for a time.

 

The American Eagle manual warns ground crew to stay at least 15ft back from the front of an engine until its blades stop spinning. The airport crew also had two safety huddles where they were told to not go by the plane until the engines turned off, and rotating beacons on the plane warned employees that the engines were still firing, the report noted.

 

The employee who was ultimately killed received one more warning to stay back from a co-worker after nearly getting knocked over by exhaust from the jet.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

New Zealand-bound plane flies 13 hours only to land where it took off

 

Passengers on an Emirates flight bound for Auckland, New Zealand that left Dubai Friday morning ended up landing back at the same airport where it took off a little more than 13 hours later. 

 

Flight EK448 departed at 10:30 a.m. local time and the pilot turned around nearly halfway into the almost 9,000-mile journey, landing back in Dubai just after midnight Saturday, according to FlightAware and Business Insider. 

 

Auckland Airport was forced to close at the start of the weekend due to severe flooding. 

 

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[ixcuincle]

 

[China]

British Airways flight attendant ‘drunk on flight’ arrested at Gatwick - report

 

A British Airways flight attendant has reportedly been arrested after a pilot suspected her of being drunk during her duties at 30,000 feet.

 

The pilot called police to meet the crew on the Gatwick tarmac after he feared a 41-year-old air stewardess was intoxicated on the flight back to the UK, it has been reported.

 

A source told The Sun: “The pilot saw for himself that the crew member was in no fit state to work and engage with passengers.

 

“Her job is to maintain the safety of the aircraft and its passengers, and she was not able to do this.

 

“He radioed ahead calling for police to meet the ­aircraft.

 

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Couple Abandoned Baby At The Airport When They Learned They Had To Pay $27 For Him To Fly

 

On U.S. domestic flights, babies fly free as a ‘lap infant.’ Children under 2 years of age don’t need their own seat and it doesn’t cost extra to bring them on a plane.

 

Outside the U.S., policies vary. And for international travel there’s usually a charge – which can be as high as 10% or more of the cost of a paid ticket, plus taxes.

 

A couple arrived at the Tel Aviv airport for Ryanair 4710, the 12:55 p.m. flight to Brussels-Charleroi on Tuesday. They were traveling with their infant son, but hadn’t paid the airline’s €25 (US$27.14) fee for an infant in lap. While some reports have said that the parents “refused to pay the fee,” in fact Ryanair’s check-in counters were closed and they could not pay.

 

They left the baby at the ticket counter and proceeded to security. Ryanair called Israeli police. The parents were located, and taken into custody for questioning. The baby was returned to the its parents.

 

According to the airport authority,

 

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A couple with a baby, holders of a Belgian passport, arrived on a Ryanair flight at Terminal 1 without a ticket for the baby. The couple arrived late for the flight after the flight’s check-in counters had closed. They left the basket with the baby and wanted to go up to the security check in Terminal 1 to get to the departure gate.

 

The ground services shift manager took the couple back to the flight counters to pick up the baby. and called the police and a security guard. After that, the couple took the baby.

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

[The Evil Genius]

Yeah...no thanks.

 

 

[China]

4 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

Yeah...no thanks.

 

 

 

Yeah, that's a whole part of the tourist attraction at St. Maarten:

 

 

[Skinsfan1311]

2 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

Yeah...no thanks.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, China said:

 

Yeah, that's a whole part of the tourist attraction at St. Maarten:

 

 

Been there, have done that.  NOT!

We sat at a nearby bar and watched the idiots.

It's nuts how close the planes are.

[EmirOfShmo]

Be safe out there!

 

Woman is roofied at Denver Airport under what she believes was a failed attempt to traffic her

 

Madison Herman was traveling through the Denver International Airport earlier this month on her way to Cleveland when she had some time to kill due to an extended layover. Like many passengers do she chose to spend some of that time in an airport bar.

It was here where she thinks her drink was spiked. According to a local news station, Herman admitted to not being fully aware of her surroundings at the bar while she was on the phone with her family. After leaving the bar she felt nauseous and headed for the bathroom where she had an unusual interaction with a woman in the restroom.

The woman reportedly apologized to Herman which was unusual because it wasn’t apparent the woman needed to apologize to Herman. Herman then overheard the woman talking on the phone with a man indicating that it was the first time that we’ve had someone throw up. Herman is reported to have said, ” I was done, and I heard them (the woman who apologized) on the phone. It was a guy on the other line who said, “This is the first time we’ve done this that we’ve had someone throw up.” And so at that point, like, all my red flags went up and I was like, “OK, something is going on here.”

 

https://cboardinggroup.com/woman-is-roofied-at-denver-airport-under-what-she-believes-was-a-failed-attempt-to-traffic-her

[purbeast]

1 hour ago, EmirOfShmo said:

Be safe out there!

 

Woman is roofied at Denver Airport under what she believes was a failed attempt to traffic her

 

Madison Herman was traveling through the Denver International Airport earlier this month on her way to Cleveland when she had some time to kill due to an extended layover. Like many passengers do she chose to spend some of that time in an airport bar.

It was here where she thinks her drink was spiked. According to a local news station, Herman admitted to not being fully aware of her surroundings at the bar while she was on the phone with her family. After leaving the bar she felt nauseous and headed for the bathroom where she had an unusual interaction with a woman in the restroom.

The woman reportedly apologized to Herman which was unusual because it wasn’t apparent the woman needed to apologize to Herman. Herman then overheard the woman talking on the phone with a man indicating that it was the first time that we’ve had someone throw up. Herman is reported to have said, ” I was done, and I heard them (the woman who apologized) on the phone. It was a guy on the other line who said, “This is the first time we’ve done this that we’ve had someone throw up.” And so at that point, like, all my red flags went up and I was like, “OK, something is going on here.”

 

https://cboardinggroup.com/woman-is-roofied-at-denver-airport-under-what-she-believes-was-a-failed-attempt-to-traffic-her

This story sounds suss as **** lol.  I don't buy it at all.

[tshile]

ugh airpods are down to 30% and i still got 80 minutes until i land

they should just let me connect to the plane speaker system

i'd have this whole thing poppin like a club

[purbeast]

43 minutes ago, tshile said:

ugh airpods are down to 30% and i still got 80 minutes until i land

they should just let me connect to the plane speaker system

i'd have this whole thing poppin like a club

Airpods only have a battery life of a little over 4 hours?

[The Evil Genius]

5 hours ago, tshile said:

ugh airpods are down to 30% and i still got 80 minutes until i land

they should just let me connect to the plane speaker system

i'd have this whole thing poppin like a club

 

Club yacht rock. 

[China]

Poker star uses AirTag to track bag lost in airport ‘twilight zone’

 

You check your luggage for a flight, but it doesn’t appear on the carousel at your destination.

 

For decades, your only course of action has been an internal scream, followed by a report to your airline, in the hope that it will locate your bag and deliver it back to you.

 

But increasingly over the past few years, passengers are taking a more active part in the process, by tracking their own bags and informing the airlines where they are.

 

So what happens if you check your luggage, it doesn’t appear, but you can see it sitting pretty at terminal four of London Heathrow?

 

For Steve O’Dwyer, the answer is: absolutely nothing.

 

O’Dwyer’s missing bag has been at Heathrow since January 21, when he was transferring flights en route to the Bahamas.

 

Thanks to his use of a GPS tracker – an Apple AirTag in his case – he has evidence that the bag has been at Heathrow for the past 13 days.

 

Unfortunately for him, the airline he booked with, Lufthansa, doesn’t appear to have spent those 13 days trying to get it back.

 

Now, in desperation O’Dwyer has used a totally unrelated TV appearance to call out the airline for its failure to reunite him with his property.

 

Everyone who follows these increasingly frequent stories knows how the next part goes. The pair boarded their flight the following morning at Heathrow, noting happily that the AirTag was still registering as being at the airport – only to find that, as they arrived in Nassau, it was still blinking at Heathrow.

 

They called Lufthansa. “They told us they had our bags and that they would be forwarded asap,” says O’Dwyer.

 

Thirteen days later, they’re still waiting, despite calling every day.

 

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[Larry]

Wonder which one of them was on the wrong runway.  Or did ATC assign two jets to the same one?  

 

 

[Captain Wiggles]

🤣

 

[China]

Short runways and towering mountains: The most nerve-jangling airports for pilots in the world

 

 

[China]

United Flight Plummeted in Terrifying 45-Second Dive: Report

 

A United Airlines flight plummeted from the air and came as close as 775 feet above the Pacific Ocean in a terrifying, previously unreported incident on December 18. United Airlines Flight UA1722 dived in an “unexplained” descent at nearly 8,600 feet per minute shortly after takeoff, The Air Current reports, and lasted approximately 45 seconds before it recovered. The flight was bound for San Francisco and had taken off from Kahului Airport in Maui at 2:29 p.m. without fuss, despite flying in stormy weather. Analyzing available data, The Air Current said the flight reached 2,200 feet before suddenly diving. The flight was “in between radio calls with air traffic controllers in Maui” throughout the 45-second ordeal. “The climb produced forces of nearly 2.7 times the force of gravity on the aircraft and its occupants,” the report said. Despite the incident, the flight landed in San Francisco after climbing 33,000 feet and departed on its next flight to Chicago just over two hours later. A spokesperson for United confirmed the incident and that a formal internal safety report was filed upon landing. The craft was also inspected before its next flight. The result led to the pilots of the plane receiving additional training.

 

 

 

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An American Airlines passenger forced the flight to make an emergency landing after she charged the ****pit after she couldn't get a drink: reports

 

An "unruly" passenger on an American Airlines flight forced the plane to make an emergency landing in North Carolina this week after the traveler allegedly charged at the ****pit after she couldn't get a ****tail, according to officials and reports.

 

Flight 3444 flying from Jacksonville, Florida, to Washington, DC, was diverted to North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Wednesday afternoon as a result of the "passenger disturbance," the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to Insider on Friday.

 

The FAA said in a tweet on Wednesday that it was investigating an "unruly passenger" aboard the flight operated by Envoy Air, a regional carrier under American Airlines.

 

In radio transmissions from Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority Police, officers can be heard saying that a passenger on the flight "tried to breach the ****pit" and was "being somewhat restrained by the flight crew and other passengers," CNN reported.

 

The FAA told Insider that the passenger "did not breach" the ****pit, but "did run at it."

 

Tiffany Miles, 36, told local news site WRAL in an interview that the incident was a total misunderstanding and that she wants an apology.

 

"What person in their right mind would go up to the ****pit while the pilot was flying the plane? It doesn't make sense," Miles told the news outlet as she explained that she got up and walked towards the bathroom in the direction of the ****pit.

 

Miles said that she asked a flight attendant for a ****tail — Jack Daniels on the rocks — before the flight took off and during, but was told no alcohol was being served on the flight, according to WRAL.

 

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‘Horrifying’ flight diverted as some passengers vomit in 9-hour ordeal, travelers say

 

A Southwest flight was diverted from Raleigh-Durham International Airport, leaving passengers stranded with no information or food in a closed Myrtle Beach airport overnight — along with a full plane of fellow travelers.

 

The 9-hour ordeal involving Southwest flight 3094 included three passengers vomiting as the plane shook “like crazy,” recounted one North Carolina couple on board. Another person, the couple said, had a panic attack and passed out on the plane amid its wild approach into Raleigh — which was aborted at the last second at 1,350 feet, according to flight data.

 

“It was quite a horrifying experience. We go to land in Raleigh and the plane starts shaking like crazy. Then they decide to tell us 15 minutes later we are going to Myrtle Beach,” said Nicholas Reed, who was traveling with his girlfriend Krys Spence.

 

On Friday night, a Southwest official at the Myrtle Beach International Airport said the plane had been diverted because weather issues caused the jet to experience a low-fuel situation.

The passengers from the full Boeing 737 got safely on the ground at Myrtle Beach, but were held on the plane for two hours before they were finally set free inside the closed airport for nearly four hours, the couple said.

 

But once in the airport, the ordeal was far from over, Spence and Reed said.

 

“We couldn’t go anywhere because they wouldn’t give us our luggage,” Reed said. “One group of guys found a bar and went behind it and just started pouring themselves drinks — because there was no security.”

 

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