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I woke up to a headline on Airline Gossip’s Twitter feed immediately made me think of Archer. According to the Mirror, a man stormed the cockpit because he wanted to fly the plane: Just five minutes after take-off, however, the passenger reportedly began throwing money up into the air and …

The Watergate has an interesting place in my memory.  I’m too young to know it for its scandalous history, but it WAS where I bought all my groceries when I first lived in DC. There was a market in its basement and I lived a few blocks away.  I spent …

Yes… you heard me right.  They have no sinks for their toilets. Normally, I complain about government regulation, but when I heard that the FAA had to tell Horizon to add sinks to their airplanes or stop letting their employees handle food items, I near spit out my wine. Horizon Airlines is a …

A while back, I discovered that it is technically legal to carry wine on the plane in your bra. I started investigating that after I researched another incident–a man had his falsies confiscated out of his bra when he went through TSA security because they contained more than 3 ounces …

The internet on cruise ships costs a pretty penny.  I just spent more than I want to think about checking work emails while at sea. But the cost makes sense–the cost not only includes the infrastructure to maintain an internet connection at sea, but also ensures too many people aren’t …

To cause chaos on the Bay Bridge. Yesterday, it seems a chicken has decided to try out some daredevil tactics and play Frogger on it. It seemed like only the day before, I was driving across the Bay Bridge.  (Wait, I was). (Side note: This is an actual video game’s plot). Twitter, as …

There’s been a story going around (especially on Twitter) about a family that was kicked off a JetBlue flight because the mother was holding their squirmy toddler. From the Consumerist: A family that purchased a separate seat for their 2-year-old son on a JetBlue flight say they were just trying …

There are two major plot twists in the Allegiant Air case. As a reminder, the flight took off late from Vegas on Monday, July 27th and proceeded to fly to Fargo, despite the airport being closed. When asked to circle until they cleared the runway, the pilot said he had …

The FAA has announced an investigation into the Allegiant Air flight that had to declare an emergency landing at an airport that was currently closed. I had a lot of questions about this because something wasn’t adding up.  Readers had a lot of questions in the comments and on Twitter …

Flight delays happen pretty often in travel.  When I’m flying on a late night flight to Reagan, I’m hoping the delays don’t push us past the airport closing because then we divert to Dulles–which is bit more difficult to get out of (and I used to live right by Reagan …