Marilyn Parver filmed an altercation between two passengers on a recent JetBlue flight. When she refused to delete the footage from her video camera, she says the airline threatened to blacklist her and accused her of interfering with a flight crew, which is a federal crime.
From the monthly archives:
August 2008
Aren is a first-grader at St. Luke’s Lutheran School in Oviedo (alas, Florida, not Spain). He’s not sad — just a little ticked off that vacation is over.
The blogosphere is abuzz about the prospect of lower fuel surcharges and fees, now that the price of energy is falling. But what’s really going to happen? Read this week’s issue to find out.
Energy prices may be falling, but airline fuel surcharges are holding steady — if not rising.
Aloft Hotels is billed as a new high-design/low-cost brand from Starwood Hotels & Resorts. I stayed at one this weekend in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Here are eight things I like about it.
Erysse and her great-grandmother Cookie chase a few bubbles together in Pomona, Calif.
There may be no better place to see Los Angeles than from Griffith Park Observatory.
Airlines have canceled twice as many flights in the first half of 2008 as they did last year — about 65,000 — and they have no intention of tapping the brakes. Here are four secrets for coping with the cutbacks.
Anita Fancon and her husband want to fly from Tucson, Ariz., to Bordeaux, France in business class. They have the miles they need, and they’ve already cashed them in. But do they have the seats? American Airlines says they do, except on the flight from Dallas to London. Is there anything Fancon can do to secure the seats she’s already paid 180,000 miles for?
Anika, Iden and Isabella hang out at their great-grandmother’s 90th birthday party in Chino Hills, Calif.
Desperate airlines do desperate things. For example, Midwest Airlines, which is downsizing itself out of existence, has apparently decided to bend one of the most basic rules of modern airline travel.
I was supposed to be taking a week off. Didn’t happen. There’s too much going on in the world of travel to not write about it. This week’s newsletter is filled with fascinating articles and posts about everything from frequent flier mileage problems to news on fees and surcharges.
Sometimes, only an apology and a full refund can make up for a disastrous vacation. Iesha Walker believes her experience on Carnival’s Destiny is one of those times.
Erysse gets a piggyback ride through Heaps Peak Arboretum near Lake Arrowhead, Calif. (Thanks for the photo, Opa!)
The number of complaints about airlines appears to be in freefall — this morning’s report card (PDF) issued by the Transportation Department says 575 people griped about air travel in June, compared with 848 a year ago — but it may only be a few weeks before they resume their climb.
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