A Virgin Atlantic passenger who threatened to rape and set fire to an air stewardess during a flight from London to Pakistan has had his sentence extended by three years, after originally being sentenced to 15 months. Salman Iftikhar, 38, from Iver, Buckinghamshire, lost the plot after he was asked to return to his seat…
One of the tensest moments of any flight is when the plane has landed, the seatbelt sign pings off, and everyone starts scrambling for their overheads while completely forgetting how to line up and wait their turn to exit. I don’t think we’ve ever witnessed a situation like what happened on this Spirit Airlines flight…
A Brit who successfully managed to smuggle cocaine from the UK into Dubai has died after one of the packets “burst in his stomach”. Jensen Westhead, 20, from Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, had ingested multiple bags of the class A drug at a hotel in Manchester last December before flying out to the United Arab Emirates. Unlike…
It’s got to be tough being a plus-size passenger on a plane. From the moment you board, you already know that every single person is hoping and praying you won’t be sitting next to them. Whoever you do sit next to is going to let out the most the most exasperated sigh of frustration upon…
Big week for Ryanair: first we had the story of the stag-do dad who tried to open the plane door mid-flight and caused pandemonium, and now we’ve got a passenger who reportedly ‘ate his passport’ and caused a plane to be diverted. The flight in question was travelling from Milan to London-Stansted when two men…
A British dad is facing up to five years in prison after attempting to open the doors mid-flight on a packed Ryanair plane travelling from Luton in London to Alicante in Spain. Daniel Ashley-Laws, who calls himself Dan Rizz online, was on a stag-do with his son and a load of their friends when they…
An EasyJet cabin manager has been sacked for gross misconduct after using the tannoy for sexual comedy routines during safety briefings. What, are you not supposed to do that? Ross Barr, 48, would also make ‘inappropriate comments’ about female colleagues over the tannoy and in person, and had been given a final warning over his…
Southwest Airlines has announced that ‘plus-size’ passengers will need to fork out for an extra seat starting in 2026, and the news doesn’t seem to have gone down well with that demographic of passengers. This replaces Southwest Airlines’s previous ‘Customers of Size‘ policy, which offered plus-size passengers a second seat at no extra cost… Southwest…
A former flight attendant has won a discrimination case against British Airways after they sacked her for being too anxious to fly. What next? A vet scared of animals? Jennifer Clifford sued BA, her employer of almost 40 years, for disability discrimination and unfair dismissal after her manager allegedly downplayed her mental health condition as…
An American woman who suffered a brutal bought of diarrhea and vomiting on a United Airlines flight from Portugal to Indianapolis via Newark, New Jersey, has (surprisingly) made herself known and spoken out about the experience. Meghan Reinertsen explained how her food poisoning caused diarrhea that turned the plane’s toilet into a ‘biohazard’, and resulted…
We have another airplane meltdown video for you today as a self-proclaimed ‘celebrity pickleball coach’ loses the plot over (allegedly) being caught smoking in the plane bathroom. He demands an apology from the flight attendant while threatening to post the video to his “25,000 followers” (lol): NEW: ‘Celebrity pickleball coach’ has a meltdown after a…
Awful news today as an Air India plane carrying 242 people bound for London Gatwick crashed near Ahmedabad airport shortly after takeoff this morning. According to the city police commissioner, none of the passengers – which included 53 British nationals, 169 Indian nationals, one Canadian, and seven Portuguese nationals – appear to have survived the crash. Not that you would…
A British Airways flight attendant has been arrested after going on a drugs binge mid-flight and then being discovered dancing naked in a business class toilet. As per The Independent, the steward was supposed to be serving meals to passengers on a recent flight from San Francisco to London Heathrow, but had vanished. When the double-decker Airbus A380-800…
Embarrassing scenes at Manchester Airport this week as a passenger went into complete meltdown after being denied entry onto a flight to Ibiza, and refusing to leave the airport. Not sure why he wasn’t allowed on the plane exactly, but given his behaviour in this clip, I’m guessing it was probably justified… @emilyathertonn Replying to…
Two Frontier Airlines workers have kissed their jobs goodbye after mocking a man for missing his flight after they refused to check him in from Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina to Boston, MA. For context: the man arrived at the airport around 50 minutes before his flight but was unable to check in as…
A pilot with arguably the most game of any man on the planet left one of the smoothest notes ever for a passenger on the back of a napkin. I mean, how is any girl supposed to resist a love letter like this… @stephbohreri didn’t even see his face♬ Enchanted (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift…
Another day, another viral plane meltdown video, and naturally it all went down on a Ryanair flight and involved a passenger that had consumed way too much alcohol and proceeded to make an absolute prat of herself. Here’s the footage: Woooah, woooah, wooooah, we’ve all had a drink. Let’s calm down a bit…..pic.twitter.com/XoL6ozrf35 — Col…
You really can’t have any fun on Delta Airlines these days. First we had the story about the passenger who was not allowed to bring his (massive) emotional support peacock on board a flight, and now we have this man who was removed from the plane after boarding with a T-shirt that featured an image…
A man who had just got a hair transplant done in Miami was returning to Las Vegas on an American Airlines flight this week when staff told him he needed to do something about his head; on account of it bleeding all over the plane. According to Local 10 in Miami, Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier “was…
By now you probably know (or maybe you don’t?) that Bill Belichick is dating 24-year-old ex-cheerleader Jordan Hudson. It’s been bombshell news ever since it leaked because A) Jordan is an attractive young lady and B) Bill Belichick is 72 years old. So yeah, just a little bit creepy. We all know Belichick is a…
Bad day at the office for this airline worker at Jakarta Airport, Indonesia, this week, as he fell from a plane onto the tarmac below as the flight crew prepared for takeoff. The worker reportedly saluted the crew for a safe flight (oh the irony) and went to step off the plane like he’s done…
What’s dumber than doing a racist impression of Asians (or any group for that matter) in front of your work colleagues? How about filming the whole thing and sharing it on TikTok like that isn’t a guaranteed way to go viral and get sacked: The above video resulted in two braindead members of British Airways…
Would a major company like Boeing that manufactures planes, rockets, satellites and weapons of war take out an individual that threatens the profitability of their business? Well, either that or they caught an insane amount of luck when the whistleblower who was in the middle of testifying about their quality control and safety procedures was…
Another day, another fight breaking out 30,000 feet up in the sky on Ryanair, as a flight from Edinburgh to Tenerife descended into utter chaos. Apparently the blonde girl had been screaming her head off the whole flight for some reason, and then her boyfriend and his brother started scrapping in front of shocked passsengers:…
Absolute nightmare scenario on a flight from Sydney to Melbourne this week as a plane packed with Taylor Swift fans belted out her catalogue non-stop for the duration of the flight, which must’ve been a hellish experience for the unlucky passengers on board he were definitely not travelling to the Taylor Swift concert: What would…
It’s a tale as old as time. British man goes to Thailand for some partying. Buys a lot of drugs and has the time of his life. Brit needs to go back home but still has a lot of drugs left over. Brit takes all the leftover drugs before he gets to the airport so…
Plus size model Gracie Bon says plane seats should be bigger to accommodate her body shape.
A man was trapped in the toilets of a SpiceJet plane for the duration of his flight.
Airport worker attacks manager and co-workers before being sacked.
Southwest Airlines is gifting plus-size passengers a free extra seat to accommodate their frames.