No matter your weight or width, the next time you fly make sure you know your airline’s policy on “seatmates of size.” Better yet, print it out and carry it with you. It could help you avoid a pain in the butt and save you some bucks.
The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 39-year-old man who went overboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship off the Bahamas.
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to assault charges in federal court in Honolulu.
Effective Wednesday, United Airlines has a new official policy that affects “seatmates of size” and those passengers seated near them.
Doug White and his family had just enjoyed a smooth takeoff and were ascending through the clouds when the pilot guiding their twin-engine plane tilted his head back and made a guttural sound.
A New York man who raised a ruckus on a Continental Airlines jet in a failed attempt to get a free ticket has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
A Kentucky man who claimed to have a bomb aboard a Los Angeles-bound jetliner and was then tackled and bound by other passengers will not face federal charges, the FBI said Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a woman who reportedly fell from a cruise ship balcony off the coast of Cancun.
Three Mexican Navy boats and a helicopter were searching the waters off the Caribbean resort of Cancun on Friday for an American woman who reportedly fell from a cruise ship, authorities said.
Mexican authorities have suspended their search for a Florida woman who apparently fell from a ship balcony during a Christmas week cruise. The woman's family believes she might have jumped overboard, but the FBI is still investigating whether someone pushed her. The Mexican Navy said late Monday it had ended its search for Jennifer Ellis Seitz, a Florida journalist, who was reported missing by her husband about eight hours after a surveillance camera captured a person falling overboard on Christmas night. The U.S. Coast Guard also called off its search Monday.
An airline crew used duct tape to keep a passenger in her seat because they say she became unruly, fighting flight attendants and grabbing other passengers, forcing the flight to land in North Carolina.
Last week, in preparation for Halloween, the Well-Mannered Traveler column was filled with scary travel stories “ripped from the headlines.” Unfortunately, there was no room for the unnerving story about the for failing a breathalyzer test just before joining a crew flying from London to San Francisco. Or for the saga of the inebriated passenger who earlier this month tried to with what turned out to be an imaginary bomb.
A long-delayed government program designed to more accurately prescreen the names of airline passengers against terror watch lists is expected to begin early next year.
The attorney for a man accused of binding the hands of a teenage girl on a Southwest Airlines flight and trying to do the same to her sister said it was merely "horseplay" and pointed out that the girls didn't scream.
Boston police said a passenger who was angry because his flight was delayed tried to get back at the airline by throwing foot powder around the plane. Arthur Nicolson, of Framingham, was arrested Monday after the U.S. Airways flight from Las Vegas landed at Logan International Airport.
A person close to the "Transformers" sequel says actress Isabel Lucas was the passenger in Shia LaBeouf's wreck in Los Angeles early Saturday.
A woman taking a cruise with her boyfriend plunged into the sea off New Jersey from a balcony attached to her room, and the FBI is investigating whether a crime occurred.
A passenger who left his seat to pray in the back of a plane before it took off, ignoring flight attendants' orders to return, was removed by an airport security guard, a witness and the airline said.
The former Iraq war contractor accused of trying to take bomb components on an airplane had a history of mental illness and was distraught over his mother's 2005 slaying, said a lawyer representing his family in the case.
The Vermont Human Rights Commission ruled there are grounds to believe Freedom Airlines discriminated against a woman ordered off a plane after refusing to cover up while breast-feeding her child.
The nation’s first passenger bill of rights law may be dead, but efforts to require airlines to treat travelers with the same dignity as prisoners of war or even household pets are alive and well.
The patience of weary travelers stranded for hours on airport runways has also been tested by years of waiting for Congress to give them a passenger bill of rights.
A federal appeals panel seemed impatient Wednesday with arguments supporting the first law in the nation requiring airlines to provide food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers trapped in a plane delayed on the ground.
Last Valentine’s Day marked the first anniversary of the passenger rights revolution. It's also looking like the last — unless you do something about it.
Kathleen Anderson was the only woman in business class on a recent Northwest Airlines flight from Düsseldorf, Germany, to Chicago. And it cost her.
Pilot makes emergency landing in Canada after passenger jumps to his death from small aircraft
A bus driver in the German city of Regensburg has lost her job after she stopped her vehicle to save a toad in the road and a passenger complained to her boss about the delay. Animal rights activists have come out in support of the driver.
Federal Aviation Administration officials said the pilot died after takeoff from Marco Island Executive Airport on Sunday. The plane was on autopilot and climbing passed 10,000 feet when the pilot died.
Air traffic controllers around south Florida quickly improvised a chain of communication that helped a passenger land a small plane after the pilot died mid-flight Sunday.
Secure Flight, the government's new airline passenger-screening program, wants to identify troublemakers. But making it work might be a nightmare for travelers.
A pregnant woman was struck and killed and another woman was seriously injured on Friday afternoon when a Gristede's van mounted a sidewalk along East 37th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, just a few minutes after 5 p.m., the authorities said.
The father of a family on board a private airplane was piloting when the flight crashed into a cemetery, killing all 14 people on board, federal investigators said Monday.
Southwest Airlines is one of the most consistent airlines flying today. They have all kinds of tricks and treats (and discounts) that keep people flying the airline.
As people helplessly watch their life savings, 401ks, real estate assets, children's college funds, financial viability, and everything that affects their jobs, security and investments vanish as the Stock Market hurtles downward toward its crashing point, they hear unmistakabl …
It is already clear that The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act should be renamed The American Relapse-And-Needs-Resuscitation Act, as is evidenced by both the simultaneous plunge of the Dow and the president's polling numbers...
I wonder how toddler Barry felt when his father left him, and never reappeared until a single time when the boy was 10. Bewildered? Sad? Lonely? Angry? What do two-year-olds do with those feelings?
Fifty people have died after a passenger plane crashed into a house in Buffalo, New York state.
An intoxicated driver has been arrested for putting his dead passenger in the driver seat after driving too fast and killing him in an accident, daily Hamburger Abendblatt reported on Tuesday.
To understand what a horrible – indeed, dangerous – choice Ms. Garvey would be in the sensitive position of insuring the safety of Americans' land and air travel, a little history is in order.
Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Branson, which is currently being emailed globally and is considered by many to be the world's funniest passenger complaint letter.
A legally blind Boston Fire Department dispatcher who was reading the book "Practice Random Acts of Kindness" didn't hesitate Wednesday when he spotted a violent robbery during a subway ride.
A drunken Long Island driver switched places with his passenger — but the new driver also was intoxicated. Suffolk County police said an officer spotted the driver and passenger stopped on the road and switching places early Thursday in Mount Sinai.
When Chris heard commotion on the Los Angeles bound Delta flight Wednesday and saw that the man had knocked down a stewardess and was struggling to open the plane's rear door, he intervened. While the man warned that he had a bomb, the 6-foot 26-year-old tackled him.
Authorities say two snowmobilers and a passenger died when their vehicles crashed on a trail in northern Wisconsin. Vilas (VYE'-lahs) County sheriff's officials say both drivers and the passenger died Saturday morning in the town of Arbor Vitae (VYE'-tah).
A toddler ended up with only minor injuries after miraculously dropping through the open sunroof and landing in the passenger seat of the car that struck his grandmother. The grandmother is listed in critical condition, but is expected to make a complete recovery.
Sometime in 2010, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will stop swiping airline passengers' bottled water and cups of coffee at security checkpoints. Instead, the agency will once again permit us to carry liquids and gels aboard planes.
A 40-year-old Dortmund man repeatedly punched a public bus driver late on Wednesday because he didn't like his "driving style," police reported on Thursday.
Passengers of a Las Vegas-bound Delta Air Lines flight will get refunds after their plane was delayed on a New York airport tarmac for more than seven hours — before the flight was canceled. More Articles and Seeds From blinkin
A plane full of British tourists including children had to make an unscheduled stop in Bermuda last night after a drunken passenger tried to open the door when the aircraft was 50,000ft over the Atlantic.
I sent this letter to USAir after my last travel experience with them. It was the worst-on top of that, I was sick as a dog all day (Sinuses, Headache, throat, chest). June 14, 2007 US Airways Attention: Customer Relations 4000 E. Sky Harbor Blvd. Phoenix, AZ 85034