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Flight Attendants Must Ask Permission to Marry on Qatar Airways

From Ryan Grenoble at the Huffington Post, female flight attendants at Qatar Airways must get the airlines permission before tying the knot. In addition, Qatar reserves the right to fire them for getting pregnant. Qatar Airways, not surprisingly based out of Qatar, is a state-owned carrier.  The ITF (International Transport …

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EasyJet Threatens to Deny Boarding Over Tweet

“Manager from easyjet just said I couldnt board flight because I criticised @easyJet on twitter before boarding the flight….” I follow a bunch of academics on twitter  and I started seeing tweets about EasyJet threatening a PhD Student and Law Lecturer with denied-boarding because of a negative tweet.  I got …

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Baseball Teams and Frequent Flier Miles

I started reading an article on ESPN about the amount of travel sports teams have to do and how there’s disparity between East and West Coast teams. From Jim Caple: “[T]he Dodgers just completed their fourth trip to the East Coast to play against NL East opponents. (It was their …

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Flight Diverted After Man Tries to Open Door in Air

Following on the tail of a smoke filled diverted flight (see what I did there?), Ben Mutzabaugh of USA Today reports that an AirTrain Flight was diverted after a passenger attempted to open a door. The flight was enroute from BWI (the destination of the other diverted flight) to Austin.  …

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Snakes In a … Canadian Motel?

Snakes in a Canadian Motel! Possibly vying for the set location for the next “Snakes on a…” movie, a Canadian Motel was found to be harboring forty African Ball Pythons. The police discovered these four-and-a-half feet long creatures stuffed into storage boxes in the back of the hotel. According to …

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Plane Emergency Lands in Wawa’s Parking Lot

I’ve always been a fan of Wawa over Sheetz, and I bet this pilot is a fan now after he safely landed his plane right in the parking lot of one: According to NBC Washington, the pilot forgot to refuel, realized his mistake, but couldn’t land on the runway in …

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