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“Dana was taken off an airplane so a dog could fly first-class cabin,” McKamie said.

Holcomb was on his way back in April to Austin from Las Vegas after celebrating his birthday, but had a connecting flight in Phoenix.

He says he had an allergic reaction to a support dog belonging to another passenger.

American Airlines, in a statement, says it makes accommodations for dogs

“American makes every effort to accommodate all passengers, including those traveling with and seated near service or support animals,” a statement read.

Holcomb says the passenger offered to switch seats but after no one volunteered, a flight attendant and a pilot got involved.

Holcomb says he questioned why he had to move to the back of the plane.


 
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Holidaymakers were returning to Edinburgh from Budapest when they started falling ill and fainting in their seats.

The plane horror unfolded after taking off from the Hungarian capital at 9.50pm.

Terrified Shaun Pinkerton, 27, was one of the passengers who collapsed.

He told the Scottish Sun Online: “I was knocked out and needed an oxygen mask.

“There was something seriously wrong with that flight.”

The garage manager, from Edinburgh, revealed two other passengers – one as young as 17 – needed CPR after collapsing.

Cabin crew had to wheel out oxygen tanks to help the stricken passengers – scattered across the front and centre of the plane.

But the flight wasn’t diverted to a nearer airport for urgent medical help.

Shaun, who had just enjoyed a four-day break with pals, said: “The fire alarm was going off while we were boarding but the flight took off as planned.

“We got up in the sky and about an hour in the first person collapsed. She was only 17 and needed CPR.

“Then the second person went down, then me, and then a fourth.

“There were people standing in aisles giving CPR and they had huge oxygen tanks out.

“I was knocked out and needed an oxygen mask. Then I went into shock and was total shaking.”

Shaun, who has placed a formal complaint with the budget airline, said the ordeal has left him terrified to fly again.

He added: “I’m a young guy, I fly all the time and I’m always fine. There was something seriously wrong with that flight, folk were worrying there wasn’t enough oxygen.
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“I’m due to go to Poland in three weeks, and Madrid three weeks after that but I don’t want to step foot on a plane ever again. It was like something out of a movie.”

Ryanair has been approached for comment.

 

An airline passenger was reportedly arrested Monday after making an “unfounded claim” about being infected with the coronavirus aboard a recent WestJet flight bound for Jamaica.

As a result of the “unruly” passenger’s claim, the flight was forced to divert back to its origin at the Toronto Pearson International Airport, WestJet confirmed.
 
AUSTIN, Texas — Hunter Adkins has had setbacks, for sure.

"I can't walk," said Hunter Adkins. "I can't move my extremities."

She's a spastic quadriplegic. She was born prematurely.

Her mom, Becky Adkins, said, "Hunter was born at 24 weeks."

"She had a bleed in her brain the third day of her life," she added. "She probably has the mental capacity of a 16-, 17-year-old."

But her mom said don't you dare feel sorry for Hunter.

"Absolutely not," said Becky Adkins. "Hunter has a fuller life than 99% of the able-bodied people I know."

From bike riding, beauty pageants, indoor skydiving and horseback riding, she's hard to keep up with. Just a few weeks ago, the 38-year-old quadriplegic was flying off to the mountains to snow ski, something she's done for nearly three decades.

"I look forward to this trip every year," said Hunter Adkins.

She's never had a problem, until this year.

She cut her head after taking a face-first dive onto the floor of an American Airlines plane.
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It happened as Hunter Adkins, her caretaker and a group were heading from Austin to Colorado for their annual ski trip. When they switched planes in Dallas, an American Airlines crew was moving Hunter Adkins to her seat.

"I told them three or four times, 'Don't let me go, don't let me go. I cannot catch myself,'" she said.

She said she made it very clear they needed to buckle her in. But, she said, they placed her in the seat and did let go.

"I lead with my head," she said, "and I toppled to the floor."

She was terrified and embarrassed.
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Mom wasn't there, but heard the news.

"Oh, I'm sort of the grizzly bear or, as my children refer to me, as their nuclear button," she said.

Consider the button pushed. Becky Adkins raised hell with American Airlines.

American Airlines investigated and emailed Becky Adkins the findings. The email stated Hunter "attempted to self-transfer." So, she tried to move herself when she fell. It added that the American Airlines team "did not recall any communication about not letting her go until the seat belt was fastened."

There was no apology, but for her trouble the airline did give her a $200 voucher to use for another American Airlines fight.

"That's just a joke," said Hunter Adkins.

It's also insulting to her for a few reasons. As a quadriplegic, she isn't able to move herself.

"I know for a fact that I can't do it," she said. "Never have been my entire life and never will be."

As for not speaking up, for several years, Hunter Adkins has sat on a governor-appointed committee advocating for people with disabilities.

"They're making that up," she said.

Four witnesses, also going on the trip, wrote statements backing up Hunter Adkins' account. Julie Maloukis recalled what she witnessed.

"Hunter says, 'Don't let me go, don't let me go,'" said Maloukis. "The female employee puts her in the seat and lets her go, and there was this loud thud and I even felt it; it vibrated. That's how hard she hit."

Becky Adkins continued to press the airline – so did the KVUE Defenders. American Airlines didn't acknowledge KVUE's repeated requests for a camera interview. But a spokesperson sent an email stating, "we sincerely apologize" for what Hunter Adkins went through, saying the airline is investigating what happened and refunding the cost of the tickets for both Hunter Adkins and her caretaker.

The airline also confirmed to the KVUE Defenders it will take care of her medical bills. Hunter Adkins was grateful for the support.

"I can't thank you enough for shining a light on this issue," she told KVUE.

About that ski trip, it did happen. The medical team that examined Hunter Adkins cleared her to fly, so she went to Colorado, got stitches and hit the slopes.

She said she plans to use her position on that state committee to advocate for better handling of people with disabilities on all airlines.


 
If she had needed to get to the damned bathroom, she would be moving in that direction but she isn't doing anything but running her mouth both before and while she's saying that. Then she drags the blonde passenger into it. "You don't run America any more." That was rich! This ho done drank ALL the BLM koolaid. If she wants to preach, she should start a YouTube channel and not subject the general public to her shit. And she's a genetic expert! I actually don't think anyone was "mad" before she started spewing that mess. It's great that everyone was laughing at her. "Bow down, bitch!" Bahahahaha! It was totally worth watching the entire thing.
 
It's not BLM koolaid. She may be more emboldened by BLM's nonsense angle, but she's spewing all the black racial superiority cliches that started long before BLM. Sounds like she's immersed in the black israelite moorish sovereign citizen stuff. If it wasn't an airplane video, she'd be recording a traffic stop and waving her soverign citizen printouts at a highway patrol officer.
 
Hat tip @SimplySpaztastic

A military couple was flying on American Airlines with their 3-yr-old grumpy toddler. Dad was attempting to calm the little bugger by walking up and down the aisle with him. At times, dad pulled down his mask to speak reassuring words to the child and sometimes the child was pulling down dad's mask. Flight attendants asked him to put it back on every time, and every time he did so.
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Eventually, though, the attendant said she was starting a report. Although AA said those reports are not generally shared, the couple might be able to get a copy. They were allowed to de-board the plane in Dallas and head to the next gate, to get ready for their connecting flight, after a three-hour layover.

When they attempted to board the connecting flight they were told the husband's ticket had been cancelled due to him being a flight risk. Their luggage didn't get the message, unfortunately, and there wasn't enough time to buy tickets on another airline. Ultimately, the couple said an American Airlines agent was able to reinstate the family’s travel plans after the couple promised to adhere to the face covering policy on the connecting flight.:rolleyes:

AA has stuck to its guns on this. American Airlines’ mask policy can be found here. It's not like the dad was refusing to wear the mask, so the family doesn't feel like they were in violation of anything and that he was doing the best he could under the circumstances to be compliant.

 
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The airlines have now risen higher than their intercontinental flights.

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The day after he got home from a trip to Europe, North Carolina native Jamie O'Grady got a text from a stranger saying he'd just found his missing luggage lying in baggage reclaim at London Heathrow.

Speaking to Insider, O'Grady said he told American Airlines about the text, only for the airline to ask him to collect the bag himself, even though he was 4,000 miles away.

O'Grady flew from Faro, Portugal on July 9 and arrived in Raleigh, North Carolina the next day following a layover at Heathrow. He'd booked the flights through American Airlines, though the first leg of the flight appears to have been operated as a codeshare with Finnair.

O'Grady dropped off two bags when he checked in at Faro — one with general luggage and the other with his golf clubs.

He told Insider that he waited an hour at the luggage carousel at Raleigh-Durham International Airport for his bags, but they never showed up. Staff at the American Airlines desk then told O'Grady that his bags had never actually been scanned and they were unsure where they were.

Earlier, as he walked around Heathrow, O'Grady had been "floored" by how much baggage was left unclaimed at the airport, and feared he'd face the same fate.

"I was just completely floored by how much luggage was in that baggage claim area. I thought to myself: 'I'm not super confident that my bags will even be transferred behind the scenes for tomorrow's flight.'
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O'Grady said that he was on a flight with around 30 of his colleagues, none of whom lost their bags. But O'Grady lost both of his.

The morning after he returned to the US, he got a text from a stranger, saying that he'd stumbled across his golf bag at baggage reclaim in Heathrow. The passenger had reached out after noticing that O'Grady had the same area code as him.

"My bag never should have been on those carousels," O'Grady told Insider. "It should have remained behind the scenes and transferred."

O'Grady sent screenshots of the conversation to American Airlines' customer services and told the company that his bag was evidently still at Heathrow.

"We suggest that you head down to the airport to have this sorted out ASAP," the airline replied in screenshots that O'Grady shared on Twitter. Heathrow is around 4,000 miles away from Raleigh.

In April, roughly one in every 140 bags on flights operated by American Airlines or its branded codeshare partners were mishandled, according to a report by the US Department of Transport.

This is higher than the proportion of bags mishandled by Southwest, Delta, and United, and is also considerably higher than the proportion of American Airlines bags mishandled in April 2021.

O'Grady told Insider that American Airlines flew one bag into Raleigh two days after he got in. He picked up the bag from the airport himself, telling Insider that he "didn't trust" the airline to deliver his bag to his address.

O'Grady didn't get his golf bag back until late on July 15, he said — almost a week after he departed from Faro. The whole experience was "frustrating," he said.

Passengers have faced mounting travel chaos as a combination of understaffing and soaring demand for travel mean that airlines and airports are delaying and canceling thousands of flights, losing luggage, and facing huge lines for check-in and security.

O'Grady said that during his layover at Heathrow he exited the airport and it took him around two and a half hours to get through security upon his reentry.

"I've traveled all around the world," he said. "I've never seen anything like this."

Read the original article on Business Insider

 
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A woman says she was forced to leave an airport after she asked for overnight accommodations when her JetBlue flight booked was canceled.

"I thought that the airline crisis wouldn't really affect me, but turns out it did," Lenay Demetrious, 25, told Insider, referring to the nightmares many travelers are experiencing with airlines this summer.

Demetrious, who posted about her flight travel experience in a viral Tiktok video, said she and her mother waited through nine delays before their flight was canceled.

They had arrived at Nantucket Memorial Airport in Massachusetts on July 17, over an hour before their flight was set to depart for New York City at 9:30, Demetrious said.

She and her mother were told by airport representatives that their plane would depart at 2 am, but noticed at that point customers who had been waiting at the gate began to leave. Some of them appeared aware that the airport did not operate past midnight, Demetrious said.

When the flight was canceled at t 11:30 pm and rescheduled for 2:30 pm the next day, airport representatives announced that the airport was shutting down at midnight. According to the airport's website "The Terminal is generally open from 5:30 am to 10 pm, depending on the current flight schedules of our airline tenants."

One airport representative escorted Demetrious to claim her checked luggage and to the main terminal, where she would be further assisted, she said.

Demetrious said she asked a staff member wearing a JetBlue uniform at the main terminal if they could help them regarding accommodation or point them to a nearby hotel. She said the airline employees she spoke to appeared irritated, "almost aloof" with a "why are you even bothering me and trying to speak to me kind of attitude."

According to Demetrious, the JetBlue representative would not offer her any kind of assistance, regardless of being directed to the main terminal for assistance.

"I held my composure, I was shaking, and I was very, very distraught by the way I was being treated," Demetrious said. "They didn't even have the decency to give me three names of hotels that were nearby that may or may not have availability that I could possibly check."

As Demetrious started to call around for a nearby hotel, she said the JetBlue representatives called security to escort her and her mother out of the closing airport.

Demetrious and her mother were locked outside the airport in a foggy vacant lot past midnight with their luggage.

"There was no soul on that lot except for my mother and I, and we're standing there with all of our belongings," Demetrious said. "I had all my cards, my passport, ID, everything, someone could have easily, easily just pulled up with their car and cause harm to us."

"I felt not only scared, but I felt like I was being treated like an animal or a criminal for no reason, and I was just so perplexed by the whole thing and just so vulnerable and hopeless and lost," she added.

After calling all the hotels in the area, Demetrious booked a room for $631 that night.

She said she had no options except to risk her and her mother's safety or spend three months' worth of her student loan payments "on a hotel room that I'm going to be in for six hours."

Demetrious said she called the airport management the next day and while she was met with sympathy from airport management over the phone, she was told nothing could be done as the employees she interacted were employed by JetBlue. When Demetrious called JetBlue, however, they said they were also not liable.
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JetBlue did not respond to a request for comment.

"I just keep on thinking like God forbid something bad happened to me later on after I was in front of the airport that late at night and I died. JetBlue's not liable for that, the airport's not liable for that? Who's liable?" Demetrious said.

She said the experience has prompted her to reconsider her future air travel.

"I love traveling because I love learning more about the world and seeing so many different corners of the world," Demetrious said. "I never really have had any disastrous trips, but it sucks that I'm going to look back on this particular trip that had good memories while I was there tainted by the bad memory of me trying to just go back home."

Read the original article on Insider

 
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According to The Charlotte Observer, the flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to New York City JFK was scheduled to depart in the early afternoon, but due to issues with the fuel tank, the airline transferred passengers to another plane before holding it on the runway.

Genna Contino, a reporter for the news outlet who was on the flight, said the first plane had "limited" air conditioning for the first three hours, while the second plane had no air conditioning or food-and-drink services.

She said in a tweet that by the sixth hour of being held on the plane, another passenger on the flight was having a "mental breakdown." She added that American Airlines did not allow passengers to exit despite their distress.

Contino said the airline turned the air conditioning off to save fuel, "until people started sobbing and having panic attacks."

Representatives for American Airlines did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Andrew Trull, an American Airlines spokesperson, told The Charlotte Observer that maintenance issues and a weather delay caused the six-hour holdup.

Tull told the local news outlet that the flight to JFK originally boarded at 1:40 p.m., but the airline later told passengers to leave the plane at 3:50 p.m. They then boarded another aircraft at 4:30 p.m., which eventually left for JFK at 7:30 p.m.

"While certainly an unfortunate delay, it is something we apologize to our customers for with the combination of maintenance and weather," Trull said.

Read the original article on Business Insider

 
More than 150 passengers were forced to sleep in an airport terminal because their flights were diverted and the crew reached their working-hours limit, according to media reports on Tuesday.

Two Qantas Airways flights from Broome and Newman, in West Australia, were due to head to the southern city of Perth on Tuesday. But the plane was diverted 420 kilometers away from the passengers' intended destination, Geraldton Airport, WAtoday reported.

Passengers on the flights had to spend Tuesday night in Geraldton Airport because the cabin crew ran out of flying time, per WAToday. ABC News reported that more than 150 people were affected.

Photos posted on Twitter appear to show passengers sleeping on the floor of the airport.

Qantas confirmed in a statement to Insider that the crew on the two flights, which diverted to Geraldton Airport, couldn't continue to Perth because they had hit the limit on the hours they can work.

Australia's flagship carrier said in the statement the flights were rerouted from Perth because fog around the airport meant it wasn't safe to land the plane.
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"We attempted to find last minute accommodation for all customers of these flights but unfortunately due to a shortage of available hotel rooms, customers stayed in the airport terminal overnight," Qantas said in a statement to Insider.

Qantas apologized to the passengers, acknowledging they would have experienced an "uncomfortable night," but said the weather conditions made it unsafe to land in Perth and the crew couldn't safely carry on with their job.

"Our staff made the overnighter as comfortable as possible by setting up passengers and crew in the waiting lounge where there are heaters, amenities and space for them to stretch out," city of greater Geraldton mayor Shane Van Styn told Insider. "This is certainly not an ideal situation for the travellers but we are happy that we were able to provide a warm place to stay overnight."

It's not the only travel nightmare that Qantas passengers have experienced recently. An Australian couple told Insider their 13-month-old baby was booked on a separate Qantas flight from Europe to Thailand.

After spending more than 20 hours on the phone with Qantas' helpline, they managed to book a flight home 12 days after the initial departure flight.

Read the original article on Business Insider

 
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Unclaimed luggage piles up at London Heathrow Airport on July 8, 2022.Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

Missing luggage belonging to air passengers has ended up in the dump at an Irish airport, UTV first reported.

A whistleblower, who requested to remain anonymous, shared photos with UTV, which showed a handful of suitcases placed in and around a large trash can for disposal outside a warehouse full of lost bags at Dublin Airport in Ireland.

The photos were taken a few days ago in an area used by baggage handling company Sky Handling, UTV reported.

It appears that some of the luggage has been opened, according to UTV.

UTV reported that it showed the photos to Sky Handling, which said the baggage was thrown away for health and safety reasons.

"We can confirm that a small number of bags were being disposed of because they posed a health and safety risk to staff and a risk of contamination for other bags in their vicinity," a Sky Handling spokesperson told Insider. "The bags in question contained foodstuffs and other perishable items against notified custom regulations. These items were clearly going off and were at risk of attracting vermin."

The spokesperson said the bags were set aside by airport customs, not Sky Handling, and were taken by mistake to the company's facility where it "had to deal with them accordingly."

The company has allowed passengers to come to the warehouse at Dublin Airport to see if their luggage is there, per UTV.

Dublin Airport told Insider it has no role in baggage handling and advised us to contact the ground handlers.

There are 4,200 lost bags owned by air passengers at Dublin Airport, according to UTV. Sky Handling was dealing with more than 2,800 pieces of luggage at the airport, per UTV.
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I don't know where to find the photo that was mentioned. It's not in the Business Insider article and a search only brought up photos similar to the one at the beginning of my post.

 
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The National Transportation Safety Board said the impact of landing was so hard that the flight attendant thought the plane had crashed. She felt pain in her back and neck and could not move, and was taken to a hospital where she was diagnosed with a fracture.

The safety board completed its investigation without saying what caused the hard landing.

The NTSB said none of the other 141 people on board the plane were injured in the incident at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California.

The pilots told investigators that they were aiming for the normal touchdown zone on the relatively short runway.

“However, it ended up being a firm landing,” the NTSB said in its final report, dated Friday.

Dallas-based Southwest said in a statement Monday, “We reported the matter to the NTSB in accordance with regulatory requirements and conducted an internal review of the event.”

A spokeswoman for the airline declined to provide further information when asked about the result of the internal investigation and whether the plane was inspected for evidence of damage that could occur during a hard landing. The plane has been making several flights a day, according to tracking services.
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The NTSB, which did not travel to the accident site, has not made its documents from the investigation publicly available.

The runway that the plane landed on is only 5,700 feet long (1,700 meters). By comparison, runways at nearby Los Angeles International Airport range between 8,900 and nearly 13,000 feet (2,700 to 3,900 meters).
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I, instead of sharing a disturbing story, will share a heartwarming one.
When I went to UK few years ago, my dumb friend booked me a flight to an airport 3,5 hours away from London while he flew to Heathrow. So basically my flight was 1,5 hour to London and next 3,5 hours I spent on a bus.

Also the trashy airline didn't allow me to take a backpack on board (I think it was Jizz Air). Fortunately we were departing from the same gate so he took it. But when I finally arrived to London, my phone was dead and my power bank and cigarettes were in my backpack I did not have. I had no idea where should I meet him, no idea what was the hotel called or anything. So I spent 25£ on power bank and next 15(!!!!) on a pack of cigarettes.

Fast forward two days, few guys fucked, few dozens beers drunk, we had a fight and split, but the joke was on him, because he was greedy for spending the money on a hotel for last night cause he's flight was at 7 am and we initially planned to go to a sauna. He went there after we had a fight, II just found a nice young guy to take me home for a night, who lived in a dorm room next to the station (it was 15kg and 6 years ago so I was still hot). So he left his luggage at the bus station but it turned out they open the storage at 9 or something. So he had to forgive me, otherwise he would not get his luggage cause my flight was at 15.

I had to go back to this damned Jizz Air Airport. And I had to take his luggage and sit like an idiot for hours cause they didn't even have free Wi-Fi on their 3G. But I turned on Grindr on my roaming LTE and found a flight attendant that was staying in hotel next to the airport. And boy, he was really good at serving xD
 
Merge meh please.q

Because I've got into a fight with my friend in the morning day before my flight, I had to organize my time somehow else because he had all the tickets to the musicals we were supposed to see (that was the purpose of the trip). And I missed the opportunity to see Jon Snow naked (he was before Game of Thrones only seen in London's theaters, it was after the series premiere but he still starred in a lot of plays).

Here's a funny quote of his I found

“I didn’t really think I’d be a leading man in any respect whatsoever,” Harington confessed. “At drama school in my third year I was resigned to the fate of being Young Male Rape Victim No. 2. That was the kind of category I was put in. I’ve got a very baby face underneath all of this fuzz.”
 
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