The airline experience has become miserable

[China]

Delta flight's 8-hour delay frays passengers' nerves; police called to break up fight

 

Port Authority police officers at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City reportedly had to intervene after a fight broke out on a Delta flight that was delayed around eight hours Thursday.

 

One passenger, Juan Andres Ahmad, tweeted that the pilot had “no idea” where the ground crew was and while the passengers waited they weren’t given food or water, Fox 5 New York reported.

 

"This has gotten out of control - there are people fighting each other and it’s gotten both verbal and physical,” Ahmad tweeted. “Police are on the plane! Complete chaos! I understand weather delays and we all want to be safe but this is not about weather but about how Delta has handled it."

 

 

 

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[China]

Delta is on a roll...

 

Irate Passengers Blast Delta After Plane Sits on JFK Tarmac Overnight Due to Weather Delay

 

A Delta flight that was supposed to leave John F. Kennedy Airport Wednesday afternoon en route to Los Angeles was still stuck on the Queens tarmac the next morning, prompting a flood of angry tweets from frustrated passengers who said they were stranded at the airport a stunning 22 hours. 

 

The plane, Delta flight DL0975, had been supposed to take off at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The airline's website shows it departing JFK at 9:20 a.m. Thursday. According to social media reports, passengers were stuck on the tarmac through much of the delay, initially sparked by severe storms that hit Wednesday.

 

As passenger Eloise Moran told News 4, "It's literally been hell." 

 

Video posted to Twitter by Moran showed all out chaos in the terminal, with angry fliers packed in like sardines, demanding answers from Delta staff. Moran's photos showed cramped passengers sleeping on the floor; at least one did have a pillow and blanket, though other fliers said they had no accommodations. 

 

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[China]

 

[China]

Petrified Delta passengers text their loved ones goodbye as their plane plunges 29,000 feet in seven MINUTES during terrifying emergency which left flight attendants begging no one to 'panic'

 

Panic broke out on a Delta flight when the aircraft plunged nearly 30,000 feet in seven minutes, prompting petrified passengers to text goodbyes to loved ones while flight attendants tried to reign in the chaos. 

 

The flight from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale was halfway through its route on Wednesday when it rapidly dropped from an altitude 39,000 feet to 10,000 feet. 

Delta said the unanticipated descent was caused by 'cabin pressurization irregularity en route'.  

 

 

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[purbeast]

^^ Good job by the crew to keep it under pretty good control and make an emergency landing.

[DCSaints_fan]

This may have been the case for a while, but on my Southwest flight I noticed the emergency exit row in the middle of the plane now occupied by seats.   While it still possible to use, it makes it much harder and I can easily see people in a panic tripping and blocking the exit.  I really hope they never have to use those, because its a disaster waiting to happen.   

[TheGoodBits]

 

 

[China]

Man Arrested After Allegedly Trying To Use First Class Bathrooms On Cross-Country Flight

 

An Alaska Airlines passenger flying coach out of JFK on Thursday allegedly tried to use the bathroom in first class and wound up getting arrested in Kansas City.

 

During flight 411 from New York to Los Angeles, the unidentified man reportedly became incensed that he could not use the first-class bathroom when there was a long line for the coach bathrooms. After being told he had to wait with the others, the man allegedly threatened to march into the ****pit, CBS News reports. The pilot subsequently diverted the flight to Kansas City, Missouri, so that local police could arrest the passenger.

 

A trio of cell phone videos posted on Instagram show a man in a Jets jersey arguing with flight attendants, challenging the injustice of letting restrooms go unused while so many people are waiting to relieve themselves, and then finally being removed from a plane by police.

 

 

 

 

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[The Sisko]

On 9/19/2019 at 6:42 PM, purbeast said:

^^ Good job by the crew to keep it under pretty good control and make an emergency landing.

I bet there were a lot of full undies on that flight.💩💩💩

[skinsmarydu]

On 9/27/2019 at 11:39 PM, The Sisko said:

I bet there were a lot of full undies on that flight.💩💩💩

That story made me think about "Airplane!".

What were they serving? 

[Riggo#44]

On 9/20/2019 at 9:09 AM, skinsfan_1215 said:

 

 

Oh my god, that is disgusting.

[China]

‘I'm not moving:' Woman without ticket, ID refuses to get off Delta flight from Orlando

 

ORLANDO, Fla. - A woman was escorted off a plane at Orlando International Airport Sunday after boarding a Delta flight to Atlanta with neither a ticket nor identification.

 

Passenger Jenni Clemons said she called a flight attendant to her assigned seat when the woman, Sylvia Rictor, refused to move.

 

"She said very bluntly, 'I'm not moving,'"Clemons said.

 

The flight attendant tried to get Rictor out of her seat. The attendant said Rictor was not listed on the manifest.

 

Rictor: "I have 15A. I have 15A."

 

Delta employee: "Maybe on a different plane."

 

Rictor: "No. I'm on Delta."

 

Clemons said a supervisor and a pilot came over but also had no luck removing Rictor.

 

Employees asked Rictor several times for her boarding pass.

 

"Who knows where I threw it. I just threw it out a soon as I got on the plane," Rictor said.

 

Employees then asked for her ID. Witnesses said that’s when the woman held up her phone.

 

Rictor: "Well, I'm showing you a picture ID."

 

Flight attendant: "Ma'am, that's not a government-issued ID. That's a photo."

 

Rictor: "Well, this is just as good." 

 

Flight attendant: "No, ma'am, it's not just as good."

 

According to the passenger, the pilot called police, who were then able to remove Rictor from the plane.

 

"They eventually told her, 'You're breaking federal law,'" Clemons said.

 

Rictor left cursing, leaving passengers confused and concerned.

 

Clemons said she was able to get in her seat and the plane taxied down the runway, but it was quickly stopped.

 

"We were stopped pretty quickly, and the pilot explained it was because the lady was not cooperating with TSA (the Transportation Security Administration), and she did not have a ticket to any airline at all," Clemons said. "They could not figure out how she even got on the plane."

 

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[Larry]

One of my thoughts is "Sovereign Citizen".  

[Rocky21]

I hope those people that were delayed on their flight because the TSA ****ed up got some kind of free ****. 

[Xameil]

Ok...just thought I'd throw in the positive from my latest flight.

I'm on my way home from Asia for work. My flight from Tokyo to DC was delayed due to ATC issues. I have a tight connection in DC to my flight home. The pilot was able to make up time in the air only to get delayed again by ATC. When we finally land, I have 30 minutes to go through customs and immigration, get my bag, security check it again, get to my domestic terminal which is a train ride away and through security again, then to the last possible gate at the airport.

Kudos to United. Knowing they had people who were in this predicament, they granted us all TSA access and rushed us through it all, then even held the plane for me and 1 other on the same flight. It was told to me that United is  now doing this and working with a program that helps out when people are in danger if missing connections.

 

[China]

PLANE AWFUL Passengers share stomach-churning pictures of the worst plane food they’ve ever been served

 

AIR passengers are getting travel sick — of meals they can hardly recognise.

 

One was served chicken and mash swimming in grease on Norwegian, while Ryanair passenger Billy Shearer described his Irish white pudding breakfast as “a monstrosity”. Business class is not always better, with BA flier David Ball blasting his dry chicken and “gunk” in Which? Travel’s survey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Dr. Do Itch Big]

I would eat all of that. Spoiled as people. 

[DCSaints_fan]

1 hour ago, Dr. Do Itch Big said:

I would eat all of that. Spoiled as people. 

 

Yeah I don't get it.  True, it looks about as appetizing as your average frozen microwave meal, but not sure what people are expecting for airline food ... maybe they just don't dig chicken, chuck roast, mashed potatoes and gravy? 

[China]

Outrage in the skies: Are airline passengers getting more unruly?

 

Air travel can be hard work, whether it's navigating super-long security lines, losing the seat lottery and ending up jammed in the middle of the row, or finding yourself on a plane grounded on the runway, delayed and unmoving for the foreseeable future.

In these stress-inducing scenarios, most of us might plug in our headphones and get lost in a podcast or movie -- or simply close our eyes and try to get some sleep.

For others, the pressure gets too much, the scales tip over into the wrong direction and the perfect storm's created for the unfortunate phenomenon known as air rage.

 

In the photo above, actors play out a disruptive scenario as part of training carried out by the aviation security company Green Light.

Air rage is a term used for disruptive and unruly passenger behavior, ranging from snapping at the flight attendant, refusing to sit down, brawling with another passenger and even, in the most extreme scenarios, attempting to enter the flight deck or open the emergency exit door.

These situations might be exacerbated, or even directly caused, by excessive alcohol consumption, fear of flying, mental health conditions or other individual issues the traveler is dealing with.

Statistics recorded by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) suggest incidents involving unruly airplane passengers are on the rise.

 

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Edited November 19, 2019 by China

[China]

Airlines and Veterans Riled by Conduct Unbecoming a Support Dog

 

It seemed, in retrospect, a bit of a low point — a medium-size dog racing through an airplane at 30,000 feet, spraying diarrhea toward passengers throughout the cabin.

 

But according to some transportation officials, it was an increasingly typical scene that has stemmed from the growing use of comfort animals on airplanes — a situation that some injured veterans say is making life harder on them.

 

The airline industry, which has been working to curb the number of comfort animals onboard, has recently found an ally among the nation’s war wounded. Some veterans and service dog organizations say the overuse of untrained dogs, pigs, rodents and amphibians — and, at least once, a small sloth — as emotional support companions has made it difficult for veterans to get acceptance for their properly trained service animals on airplanes and beyond.

 

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[China]

Florida woman forced to change ‘Hail Satan’ shirt on American Airlines flight: report

 

A Florida woman was forced to change her shirt praising Beelzebub on a recent flight.

 

Swati Runi Goyal, 49, was flying from Key West to Las Vegas the day before Halloween wearing a black shirt with the text “HAIL SATAN” in all-caps, Buzzfeed News first reported.

The shirt also included the text “Est. 666” and an upside-down cross, a picture shows.

 

Goyal was seated with her husband on the flight when an American Airlines crew member told her to remove the offensive shirt or get off the plane — delaying the flight until she swapped into an extra shirt her husband was wearing.

 

“The gentleman asked me if I understood what ‘offensive’ meant,” Goyal told The Post. “I said, ‘I’m a foreign-born minority woman. I know what my T-shirt means and my T-shirt is not offensive.’”

 

Goyal said she is both an atheist and a member of the Satanic Temple — and bought the shirt to support the non-theistic church.“It’s usually met with giggles and thumbs up from people who get the irony of the T-shirt,” she said.

 

Goyal, who is vegan, said she became a supporter of the Satanic Temple because of its tenets — which includes showing “kindness to all creatures.”

 

“I’m not goth. I don’t have piercings. I wasn’t wearing a shirt that had a goat being beheaded on it,” Goyal told Buzzfeed. “[I was] wearing L.L.Bean hiking pants and vegan sneakers.”

 

Goyal decided to post her story after American Airlines “failed to investigate” the incident — in a hope to bring change in favor of religious freedom, she told The Post.

 

“I’m really trying to make some good deeds come out of this. This is really about religious discrimination,” she said. “Because they treated me this way, I can only imagine how they’re treating other religious groups like Muslims.”

 

American Airlines reached out to Goyal since the BuzzFeed story and has agreed to refund her plane tickets. Goyal said she has also asked the company to ensure they provide training on discrimination and apologies from the three crew members involved.

 

“We apologize to Ms. Goyal for her experience, and we are reaching out to her to understand what occurred,” an American Airlines spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.

 

The company also said “Discrimination has no place at American Airlines” in a tweeted response to Goyal’s own Twitter post about the ordeal.

 

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[Riggo#44]

So much in that article...so much...

 

Minority, foreign born, athiest, vegan, wearing LL Bean pants, and "vegan" sneakers. Oh, she knows what "offensive" means, alright. 

 

[No Excuses]

2 hours ago, Riggo#44 said:

So much in that article...so much...

 

Minority, foreign born, athiest, vegan, wearing LL Bean pants, and "vegan" sneakers. Oh, she knows what "offensive" means, alright. 

 

Airline crews discriminating against someone and your takeaway is that persons identity bothers you?

 

Telling.

[Riggo#44]

3 hours ago, No Excuses said:

Airline crews discriminating against someone and your takeaway is that persons identity bothers you?

 

Telling.

As soon as I saw the alert I knew it was going to be something like this...

 

It was a joke. Lighten up, Francis.

[China]

Woman stung by scorpion on United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Atlanta

 

A female passenger on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Atlanta says she was stung by a scorpion in the middle of the flight.

 

The woman shared a picture of the scorpion with TMZ, and said she was stung "multiple" times during the Thursday flight. After feeling a "stinging sensation" on her leg, she went to the bathroom to check it out.

 

 

The woman said the scorpion then fell out of her pant leg and "scurried across the floor" of the plane but flight attendants were eventually able to catch it.

 

In a statement to USA Today, United Airlines confirmed the stinging, and said the crew "responded immediately."

 

"After learning that one of our customers on flight 1554 from San Francisco to Atlanta was stung during flight, our crew responded immediately and consulted with a MedLink physician on the ground who provided medical guidance," the statement said. "The customer was transported to a local hospital," Noonan said. "We have been in contact with our customer to ensure her well-being."

 

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