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Woman gets on flight to Chicago. Then a ‘frat boy’ pilot gets on the intercom: ‘Can confirm many of my pilots are 23-30 years old’

By Apr 19th
Woman encounters a window-seat thief while flying from Newark. But her struggle didn’t end after getting her seat back: ‘Why should I hold your bag?’

By Apr 2nd
Why Do Some Airlines Board Back to Front and Others Don’t?

By Mar 6th
Woman catches Alaska Airlines seatmate delete Tinder, Snapchat, and texts with ‘Carly’ right before landing: ‘He sat in front of the wrong FBI girly’

By Feb 24th
Man flies Allegiant for the first time at Florida airport. When he sits down, he realizes something’s missing

By Feb 23rd
Mom says Delta won’t let her sit next to her 2 toddlers on flight from Florida to Minneapolis. What can she do?

By Feb 20th
Woman flies from Chicago to San Francisco. Then the woman behind her accuses her of reclining her seat—and takes revenge

By Feb 20th
Woman flies from Kansas City to Orlando on Southwest Airlines. Then she learns about their new seat policy

By Feb 19th
71 yo Utah mom opens a full-blown sandwich shop at 30,000 ft mid-flight. The internet is stunned by the audacity: ‘The real MVP’

By Feb 11th
Woman says Frontier blocked her carry-on. So she comes up with a creative solution—then ends up regretting it: ‘I had to sit in…for 4 hours’

By Feb 11th
Passenger takes a peek at letter seatmate is writing. Now he’s issuing a warning to her husband: ‘May this type of husband never find me again’

By Feb 3rd
Delta passenger flies from the Caribbean to the U.S. Then a bathroom dispute with her seatmate spirals—until she’s threatened with the no-fly list

By Jan 31st
‘The flight attendants were so apologetic’: Woman boards WestJet plane. Now she’s calling their new seats ‘unsafe and absurd’

By Jan 11th
Family of 4 gets kicked off JetBlue plane after system glitch. What follows is a 14-hour nightmare at Fort Lauderdale airport with no refund in sight

By Jan 9th
6’3” Canadian passenger boards WestJet plane. Then he takes his seat—and immediately demands answers from the airline: ‘Medically this is dangerous’

By Jan 2nd
‘You can actually face criminal charges for this’: Airplane passenger chooses the Exit Row—but she says she won’t help

By Jan 1st
‘I would never think to bring my heavy cup on a trip like that…’: Connecticut flight attendant suffers fractured foot after customer mistake on plane

By Jan 1st
‘That’s an insane use of free will’: Passenger looks over at man in seat next to them on flight. They can’t believe what he’s doing to pass the time

By Dec 26th
Flight attendant speaks out after ‘terrifying’ flight from Sacramento to Denver. Viewers thank her for her ‘honesty’: ‘This is why I avoid Denver’

By Dec 24th
‘The entitlement of people with kids baffles me’: Woman settles into her first-class seat on flight. Then a mom approaches her

By Dec 23rd