Tag Archives: weird travel news

The most epic-ly delayed flight ever may finally take off in February or March of next year.  After three years of delays, adventurous tourists may finally get the chance to travel to outer space.  Seriously. KRQE reports on the Virgin Galactic’s impending flight: Initial plans had Virgin Galactic’s first commercial …

A man is in custody after he was caught engaging in, er, a solo activity and then attempted to escape out the exit door. Let me just say, I’m glad my flight today was not this exciting. From WCVB: The flight crew of Virgin America flight 363 requested a diversion during …

If I ever have a medical emergency, I hope the plane is packed with fire fighters!  (Hopefully on their way to a bachelor party, not on their way home from one). A groom-to-be and his fellow firefighting buddies saved a man’s life when he started having major cardiac issues in-flight. From …

Ever wish you could just tune the rest of the plane out? Airbus just filed a patent for a product that could do just that. According to Yahoo News: Airbus says it’s designed to give air passengers of the future a sensory-deprivation environment where they can fully immerse themselves in …

A Washington Post article today lays out Bureau of Transportation statistics showing flights have been at higher and higher capacity over the last  ten years.  The fullest flights by far are on Frontier, with Spirit Airlines in second. According to the article: Never have domestic carriers been better at making sure …

A 19-year old tech wiz literally launched a drone advertising company by setting one free on the Las Vegas Strip. The only problem is, his drone was in violation of FAA policy. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal: The FAA’s line in the sand differentiating commercial drones from model aircraft …

A United flight to Beijing was diverted after they found out there was a parent on board traveling out of the country with her child with possibly no intention on returning back to this country: The United Airlines flight departed Virginia’s Dulles International Airport at 12:39 p.m. When it reached Canadian …

Just last week, Keri wrote on a flight being diverted due to a fight over the use of a Seat Defender–a tool that prevents the seat in front of you from reclining. Now, the Washington Post reports on yet another fight:  This time, a Delta Air Lines flight from New York’s …

An era has ended.  Piedmont Airlines (now part of US Airways) was the first to use the Being 737-400. And now they’ve used their last. According to the Desert Sun: The aircraft — tail number N435US — flew from Charlotte to Dallas/Fort Worth to Philadelphia before returning to Charlotte on …

…at least if you want to maintain the copyright. The US Copyright Office just decreed that a selfie taken by a money cannot be copyrighted. The picture in question is this one: Wikimedia Commons Look at the mug on that guy! I’ve been following this case for a while because it’s really …