Pin ItemailprintRand Paul seems to be having an interesting day as the Kentucky senator was detained by the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tennessee after refusing to undergo full body pat-down. “I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely,” said Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley said. “The image scan went off; [...]
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“The easiest way to become a millionaire is to start out a billionaire and go into the airline business.” – Richard Branson, founder of Virgin America You just spent $500 on holiday airfare, including baggage fees, change fees, and a fuel surcharge – yet all you got to eat on the flight was a tiny [...]
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Next time you fly, you might want to keep a close eye on your coins. It was revealed today that airline passengers left nearly $400,000 in change (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters) at airport checkpoints in 2010. According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), $409,085.56 in coins, including foreign currency, was recovered at security checkpoints [...]
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With all of the tech devices we carry around today, it’s no wonder that an outlet – or lack thereof – could make or break a business trip. Fortunately, some airports and airlines are improving their tech amenities in an effort to keep you more connected. PC World sent researchers to the country’s 40 busiest [...]
Actor Alec Baldwin has issued an apology to his fellow passengers for an incident in which he was booted off an American Airlines flight for tinkering with his phone while the plane was sitting on the runway. In a post written over at The Huffington Post, Baldwin says it “was never my intention to inconvenience [...]
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Is Words with Friends really that addictive? 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin was booted off an American Airlines flight headed to NYC. Taking off from Los Angeles, it seems Baldwin was a little too wrapped up in a rousing round of the popular iPhone Scrabble-like game from Zynga while sitting at the gate. According to [...]
Lauren Scruggs was able to respond to voice commands yesterday by moving her limbs less than two days after the 23-year-old model walked into an airplane propeller, leaving her body mangled. Scruggs had just gotten off a two-seater airplane at a private airport in Texas on Saturday night after looking at some Christmas lights when [...]
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84-year-old Lenore Zimmerman says TSA agents demanded she undergo a strip search at New York’s JFK Airport, even though she was in a wheelchair with a walker. Zimmerman says she didn’t want to go through a full body scanner for fear that it would interfere with her defibrillator. She says agents pulled down her pants [...]
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There’s no doubt that iPhones are hot, but this is ridiculous. While aboard Australian flight Regional Express ZL319 Friday, a passenger’s iPhone 4 (not a iPhone 4S) suddenly began “emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow,” according to a Regional Express statement. The plane, which was en route from Lismore [...]
Another airlines is hitting hard times. AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning. Texas-based AMR Corporation announced that the company filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The company says it did so “in order to [...]
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