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London Woman’s Passport Expired a Day Before Her Solo Trip. Missed Trains and a Closing Gate Nearly Ended It: ‘I’m Going to Have to Cancel the Trip’

By Vanessa Esguerra Jul 19th
Bride-To-Be Boards a Flight for Her Bachelorette Party. At 30,000 Feet, Her Friend Suddenly Screams: ‘She Took Your Money?!’

By Sanchari Ghosh Jul 14th
North Carolina Woman’s 3-Hour Flight Turns Into 10-Hour Ordeal, Then She Lands Without Her Luggage: ‘I Thought I Could Run Through A Brick Wall’

By Sanchari Ghosh Jul 12th
Airport Traveler Loses His Cool on Two Teen Girls, Only to Get a Brutal Reality Check From a Fellow Passenger

By Terrina Jairaj Jun 30th
A Routine Flight From Newark to Halifax Turned Into a Nightmare When Passengers Had to Drag the Captain From the Cockpit and Tie Him Down

By Terrina Jairaj Jun 26th
Southwest Airlines Pilot Was Due for His Last Flight. The Pre-Flight Speech Made the Internet Bawl: ‘Thank You for Everything You’ve Taught Me.’

By Vanessa Esguerra Jun 25th
A Routine Flight to Philadelphia Turns Into a Frantic Emergency After a Passenger Begins Biting Travelers and Fighting Anyone in Reach

By Terrina Jairaj Jun 24th
8-year-old’s soothing voice and football cards saved a Jet2 flight from an emergency landing after a drunk passenger lost it at 30,000 feet

By Terrina Jairaj May 8th
Woman boards Delta from Dallas to see ailing mother, realizes she would miss her connecting flight, but then the pilot comes to her rescue

By Sanchari Ghosh Apr 22nd
Healthcare worker on Southwest Airlines responds to a passenger’s emergency, only to find the ‘palest woman’ she’s ever seen: ‘Lucky passenger’

By Sanchari Ghosh Apr 21st
Chicago woman forced onto standby by a major European airline, left in the middle of Spain with a 2-star ‘solution’. Then it gets worse

By Terrina Jairaj Apr 11th
Woman flying to New Orleans discovers she’s on the no-fly list for being intimate with a man, but reveals she’s attracted to women: ‘It’s bananas’

By Sanchari Ghosh Mar 25th
‘A Miracle’: A flight attendant was launched from her seat during a fatal runway crash and the reason she survived has investigators stunned

By Terrina Jairaj Mar 24th
23yo Wisconsin woman recounts her ‘most terrifying’ experience when her flight faced turbulence 15 minutes before landing: ‘I felt paralyzed’

By Kopal Mar 15th
Kristi Noem’s DHS secretly flies a deportation flight to NH, leaving detainees stranded on the tarmac for 12+ hours in a blizzard

By Sanchari Ghosh Feb 27th
‘I could’ve paid this’: Woman finds flights for Japan. Then she realizes she made a big mistake. Now she’s out $1,500

By Gisselle Hernandez Dec 3rd
The Dopest Superpowers for Living in the Real World (And the Ones That Suck Eggs)

By Sarah Fimm Aug 23rd
The Future Is Here: Flying Car “AirCar” Completes Test Flight and Drive

By Chelsea Steiner Jul 1st
16-Year-Old Survives Flight From San Jose to Hawaii in Wheel Well of Plane

By Glen Tickle Apr 21st
Strapping Tiny Cameras To Falcons Lets You Experience Flight Like You Are A Hardcore Bird Of Prey

By Sam Maggs Jan 26th