Dozens of stranded Sun Country Airlines passengers are fuming after the carrier canceled their flights home from Mexico and then told them they’re on their own to find a new way back.
Among those weather-related cancellations were two Minneapolis-bound Sun Country flights that had been scheduled to depart the Mexican resort cities of Cabo San Lucas and Mazatlán. But the big problem for customers was that the flights were the last on the schedule for Sun County’s wintertime-only service from those destinations.
Once the flights were canceled, Sun Country decided it could not spare additional aircraft to fly and retrieve the stranded passengers there. That, the company said, would force it to cancel other flights where those aircraft were scheduled to be deployed next.
We've all been there: Crammed into an economy class seat on a long flight while wondering, "Could I possibly be any more uncomfortable?"
Well, maybe you could.
At the Airliners Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany, last week, an Italian company showed the Skyrider 2.0, a "saddle seat" designed for an ultra-high-density economy cabin. More like a perch than a full seat, it supports your back and your behind while directing part of your weight down to a foot panel.
Since you're halfway standing up, the Skyrider gives you less legroom than you'd find anywhere in the sky today. The seat's pitch (the distance between a point on a row of seats and the same point on the row before it) is just 23 inches. That's 5 inches less than the seat pitch on Spirit Airlines, one of the most no-frills airlines there is.
Passengers who fly on American Airlines' 737 Max planes will probably notice that the lavatories are extra small, with sinks so tiny that fliers can only wash one hand at a time.
The manufacturer of the plane, Boeing, designed the compact bathrooms that way to squeeze in about a dozen more seats in the cabin than in older versions of the 737 jets.
But now flight attendants are grousing about the new lavatories.
The airline flew 12 million passengers last year on its 99 planes to 120 destinations from California to Florida. But it's had persistent problems since at least the summer of 2015 when it experienced a rash of mid-air breakdowns, including five on a single day. It was not a fluke.
Public documents show an alarming number of aborted takeoffs, cabin pressure loss, emergency descents, and unscheduled landings. Yet for the most part, allegiant's difficulties have managed to stay under the radar of the flying public.
(CNN)For 20 minutes, the Southwest Airlines jet was a normal flight from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard.
The plane was flying at 32,500 feet Tuesday morning as passengers settled in for the three-hour flight.
Suddenly, alarms blared in the cockpit as what sounded like an explosion boomed from the left side of the plane. Oxygen masks swiftly dropped from the ceiling.
What followed was a terrifying sequence of events that ended with one woman dead, seven people injured and an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport.
Airline Passenger Arrested After Allegedly Harassing Woman And Peeing On Seat
A Colorado man is facing federal charges after he allegedly harassed a female airline passenger and then urinated on the seat in front of him.
Michael Allen Haag, of Boulder, was arrested Thursday night after his plane, Frontier Airlines flight 9864, landed in Charleston, South Carolina.
He has been charged with a felony count of interfering with a flight crew and a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure, according to the Charleston Post & Courier.
An FBI affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun states that Haag was drinking double vodka and tonics during the flight.
Denied boarding by Delta Air Lines twice — can you help me get a refund
A: Delta should have let you board the first flight. When you asked what happened, Delta blamed your denied boarding on a "system error." "You have my sincerest apologizes (sic) for any unfavorable impression in this instance; I certainly understand how frustrating this situation must've been," a Delta representative wrote in an email. "I want you to know I have forwarded your information to our Airport Operations leadership team for internal review to better our service for your future travel."
As a "goodwill gesture," Delta offered you a $75 Delta Choice gift. When you responded that you wanted the $764 you had requested, it offered you two more $50 gift certificates.
Delta Passenger Who Found Dog Feces on His Seat Claims He Was Given Two Paper Towels and Told to Clean It up Himself
Delta has issued a public apology after a Florida man said he was forced to
Delta has issued a public apology after a Florida man said he was forced to sit on an airline seat covered with dog feces during a flight from Atlanta to Miami.
Matthew Meehan said that after he boarded the flight last week, he noticed there was dog poop all over the plane’s floor and his seat. “Actual feces and it was all over me. I sat in it and it was on the seat, on the floor, the seat in front. And I was literally in it,” Meehan told WXYZ TV.
Meehan said he went to a flight attendant for assistance and was shocked by what happened next.
“I have no idea why I wasn’t offered something from the biohazard kit to clean myself up with. Instead, I was handed two paper towels and one of those miniature bottles of Bombay Sapphire, a bottle of gin to clean myself with,” Meehan said.
On Instagram, tall and wide passengers have begun posting photo evidence of their struggle to use the famously cramped bathrooms on new Boeing 737 MAX planes using the #airplanebathroom hashtag.
The toilets on new Boeing 737 MAX’s are 24.5 inches wide, making them 10in smaller than older 737 models. The decrease in size allows 12 more passengers to fit in the cabin — and sometimes barely one person in the bathroom.
Passengers are not only taking #airplanebathroom selfies, but taking to social media to say that they’re so cramped that sometimes they have to wash their hands one at a time and water still gets everywhere.
Starting next week, United Airlines will only let passengers bring dogs and cats as emotional support animals and will bar all support animals from flights longer than eight hours.
The changes, which take effect Monday, are about finding the right balance between accommodating passengers' disabilities and protecting other passengers and employees, United spokesman Charles Hobart said. The airline will let customers who booked travel prior to Thursday fly with animals that would have been approved to fly under its old policies as long as they have any necessary documentation.
United said it decided to limit emotional support animals to shorter flights after seeing an increase in incidents involving support animals on longer flights. Service animals, which unlike support animals are required to have specialized training, still can travel on long-haul flights.
