Overall U.S. airline performance may be up, but from baggage fees to late departures, air travel is not what it used to be.
A look through the videos reveal that the employee isn’t attempting so much to defame his company, but rather to provide some comic relief for fellow flight attendants and some truth about company waste.
Two passengers told The Dallas Observer that the unnamed attendant used the intercom to say that the flight was returning to the gate because of “technical difficulties” and later broadcast this: “Captain, I am not responsible for crashing this plane.”
The airline policy that bans the use of electronic devices on planes is 30 years old, but there’s little to show that gadgets are actually a hazard on the nation’s 32,000 daily flights.
In the wake of adversity, we are all capable of acting rashly. But hey, Alec Baldwin, did you have to take it out on your Twitter followers?
Alec Baldwin was forced to leave an American Airlines flight for playing Words with Friends. But he’s by far the first celeb to clash with a flight crew.
— ALEC BALDWIN, 30 Rock star and prolific tweeter, posting that he was kicked off an American Airlines flight for using his mobile phone; he later added, “But, oddly, 30 Rock plays inflight on American.”
— Asset-to-debt count for American Airlines, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday (via Los Angeles Times)
Here’s some news to warm your little cat-loving hearts: Jack the cat is safe and sound.
Two incidents in airplane bathrooms put fighter jets, bomb squads and FBI centers to work on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
