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A Rapid City-bound Delta flight landed at the wrong airport yesterday. Whoops. Instead of a regional airport, the A320 aircraft landed at an air force base. Apparently, in this case, the two airports can be confusing According to Fox News: Ellsworth is about 10 miles due north of Rapid City Regional …

American Airlines just sent out a notice about the different station closures.  Due to major safety problems with the DC metro, portions of the system have been shut down while critical repairs happen. The National Airport Station to Braddock Road is one of the track pieces currently up.  While the trains themselves …

The answer, sadly, is yes. We just had a case of this with British Airways on a Heathrow to Tokyo flight. From the Daily Mail: Passengers on a British Airways flight to Tokyo were forced to suffer a 6,000-mile ‘flight to nowhere’ after the plane they were on returned to Heathrow …

This is something I worry about with unaccompanied flyers.  A little boy’s flight from Auckland to Rarotonga was cancelled.  He was flying as an unaccompanied flyer, so his mother contacted the airline to find out if accommodations would be provided for him. She was assured they would be. His mother was …

An Orlando bound flight made an emergency landing after there was a strange smell in the cabin.  There was no smoke or any other sign of distress. According to the South Bound Tribune: An Allegiant Air flight from South Bend to Orlando made an emergency landing at another Florida airport …

Another day, another drunk tirade on an airplane.  But this time, it was grandma! Well, not my grandma. A woman on a Flybe flight went into a drunken tirade, where she accused a fellow seatmate of being a member of ISIS. From the Mirror: Elaine Ryan, aged 60, loudly claimed …

I guess divorce is like love.  When you know, you know. A woman decided she knew when she was already aboard an aircraft.  She was flying from Moscow to Vladivostok and decided during takeoff that she needed to get off the plane and divorce her husband. There’s no insight into what …

An El Al flight has safely landed after officials received an anonymous tip that there was a bomb on board.  The flight was going from New York to Israel and was met by French fighter jets once it hit European airspace.  After that, it was escorted by Swiss jets. According …

Sadly, another person has died while trying to get the perfect picture of themselves while at a tourist location. While it wasn’t another death by selfie, it was close.  The man ignored warnings not to go to the edge of a ravine and tried to get a picture that looked …

There’s so many stories of misbehaving celebrities in flight, entitlement, and, well, mixing things you shouldn’t mix in flight. But we rarely hear about the good stories of celebrities in flight.  Recently, I was on a flight with Emmitt Smith and he was such a nice guy, I didn’t realize …