Starting October 25, Aer Lingus's Dublin-to-Nashville service will fly as EI95, a nod to "9 to 5." The return flight to Dublin becomes EI92. On approach to Nashville, the crew will identify themselves to air traffic control as "Shamrock 925."
Showing posts with label airlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airlines. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
some idiot construction crew were digging alongside an Amtrak rail line in New Jersey, and not consulting the city about what was underground... they hit the main fiberoptic line, 400 individual fibers, and stopped flights at New York's three major airports: Newark, JFK and LaGuardia
According to Verizon: a fiber-optic cable running alongside an Amtrak rail line in New Jersey. "Construction contractors working in the area dug up and cut our cable," the company said.
By early afternoon, FlightAware counted 681 flights affected. Some departures had resumed at JFK and LaGuardia by 1:30 p.m., while Newark appeared to remain grounded.
The FAA has not yet said whether the JFK and LaGuardia stops were caused by the same problem.
A Philadelphia controller shared the cause of yesterday's equipment outage with waiting pilots.
FAA administrator Brian Bedford told reporters that the primary circuit into that air traffic control facility, which carries in and out data, failed Monday morning.
Then, the agency discovered that the backup fiber optic line had been severed somewhere between New Brunswick and Newark, New Jersey.
Amtrak said that the fiber cut did not involve one of its crews. "This incident occurred on New Jersey Transit property and involved a New Jersey Transit contractor. Questions regarding the outage and related work should be directed to New Jersey Transit," a spokesperson said.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Monday, August 10, 2026
what a ROTTEN BRAT! (unless, it was an autistic kid, that is of course, the obvious understandable exception when "rotten brat" does not apply)
A flight in Canada had to be canceled last week after a young child stood on their seat and refused to put on their seat belt for takeoff
The Porter Airlines flight was set to take off from Victoria International Airport in British Columbia to Toronto Thursday night, but it could not depart as a safety precaution due to the child, Brad Cicero, a spokesperson for the airline, said in a statement. The airplane had left the terminal and was on the runway, but despite efforts from the child's parent and cabin crew, the child would not sit down or allow their seat belt to be secured.
Flight attendants opted to return to the terminal and deplane all passengers because the time it would have taken to bridge the plane, deplane the child and parent, retrieve their baggage and refile paperwork would have caused the plane to depart too late. The runway at Victoria's airport closes at 12:30 a.m., and the flight was initially scheduled for an 11:03 p.m. departure.
Flight attendants opted to return to the terminal and deplane all passengers because the time it would have taken to bridge the plane, deplane the child and parent, retrieve their baggage and refile paperwork would have caused the plane to depart too late. The runway at Victoria's airport closes at 12:30 a.m., and the flight was initially scheduled for an 11:03 p.m. departure.
Wednesday, July 08, 2026
A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing United Airlines of charging passengers for window seats that lacked actual windows. A passenger said they were charged extra for a window that didn't exist.
A California judge denied United Airlines' request to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed against the airline last year by a passenger alleging that the airline knowingly charged them extra for a window seat that didn’t actually have a window.
United defines a window seat to mean a location relative to the aisle and not a literal seat next to a window, according to the court filing.
However the judge said the passenger’s claims are plausible as the airline's booking page and boarding pass identify the seats as window seats, and United’s contract of carriage incorporates the “terms and conditions printed on or in any ticket.”
United defines a window seat to mean a location relative to the aisle and not a literal seat next to a window, according to the court filing.
However the judge said the passenger’s claims are plausible as the airline's booking page and boarding pass identify the seats as window seats, and United’s contract of carriage incorporates the “terms and conditions printed on or in any ticket.”
I posted about this in 2025 when it began https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-news-united-airlines-is-facing-class.html
Monday, May 04, 2026
British Airways is recruiting “taxi crew” pilots at Chicago O'Hare @ $100,000 per year to move aircraft on the ground, as part of the airline’s efficiency drive to reduce delays and improve turnaround times at one of its busiest North American hubs.
By introducing dedicated taxi pilots, British Airways is attempting to streamline aircraft movements between gates and runways.
The move reflects a wider industry push toward operational specialization and improved on-time performance.
They will not be involved in takeoff or landing phases, which remain the responsibility of flight crews, potentially luring back retired pilots who are willing to live in Chicago
Monday, April 27, 2026
a promotion by Healthy Choice Foods in 1999 caught the attention of a civil engineer (now associate vice president of energy and sustainability at University of California) they offered 500 frequent flyer miles for UPC codes mailed in as proof of purchase, double that if mailed in quickly
That meant $2.50 of pudding bought 1,000 airline miles. The airlines themselves valued those miles at $20.
He drove a van across California, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around Sacramento, and stacked 12,150 pudding cups from his garage to his living room. When cashiers got suspicious, he told them he was stocking up for Y2K.
There was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone before the deadline, so he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade. He’d donate every cup if their volunteers peeled the labels first. They agreed.
He drove a van across California, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around Sacramento, and stacked 12,150 pudding cups from his garage to his living room. When cashiers got suspicious, he told them he was stocking up for Y2K.
There was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone before the deadline, so he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade. He’d donate every cup if their volunteers peeled the labels first. They agreed.
The Salvation Army fed people with $3,000 worth of pudding. Phillips got the barcodes, and claimed an $815 federal tax deduction on the donation to the Salvation Army.
He mailed the barcodes in before the early deadline to double the points, and waited.
Then a giant package arrived. Paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles. Lifetime AAdvantage Gold status at American Airlines. $150,000 worth of flights.
The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000. The London Times followed a week later. Paul Thomas Anderson read the coverage and built a subplot in Punch Drunk Love based on this story in 2002.
Over the next five years he flew his entire family to 43 countries.
Net cost after the tax write-off: $2,325. That’s $54 per country.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
I admire this effort to help just ONE employee ( he must be amazing!) A US-based tech firm stepped up to help one of its employees of 3 years, leave the Mexico safely.
Cloud platform company Vercel arranged seats on every available flight headed to the United States from Guadalajara in a bid to ensure their employee and his wife could get out of Mexico pronto.
The Chaos in Mexico on Sunday forced flight cancellations, with flights called off at several of the country's busiest airportsTheir strategy ultimately succeeded. Barba and his wife were able to board one of the flights that took off and later arrived safely in Dallas, Texas.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
how did airlines get fooled into letting a nobody get onto airplanes, at airports, and how does that not violate all the DHS, TSA, and FAA security and procedures, for FOUR YEARS?
A former flight attendant accused of posing as a pilot and working airline employee fooled three U.S. carriers into giving him hundreds of free tickets over a span of four years
Dallas Pokornik, 33, of Toronto, was arrested in Panama after being indicted on wire fraud charges in federal court in Hawaii last October. He pled not guilty
According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fraudulent employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines. Court documents contained no explanation of why, in an industry focused on flight and airport safety, the airlines didn’t recognize the credentials as invalid.
https://apnews.com/article/fake-airline-pilot-fraud-58a2d18d66aabe462e11c3d72002c8ec
In 2023, an off-duty airline pilot riding in the cockpit of a Horizon Air flight said “I’m not OK” just before trying to cut the engines midflight.
According to court documents, Pokornik was a flight attendant for a Toronto-based airline from 2017 to 2019, then used fraudulent employee identification from that carrier to obtain tickets reserved for pilots and flight attendants on three other airlines. Court documents contained no explanation of why, in an industry focused on flight and airport safety, the airlines didn’t recognize the credentials as invalid.
https://apnews.com/article/fake-airline-pilot-fraud-58a2d18d66aabe462e11c3d72002c8ec
just when I think the govt can do a halfway decent job of something as easy as airline and airport security, having learned from the nose dive of it's utterly inept failure to stop the Covid from entering the USA in the ONE SIMPLE WAY by stopping any flights and passengers from China, the proof smacks me in the face that the govt can't learn from it's mistakes, can't realize how important airline security is (9-11 was the only example we needed or ever will need, of how any airliner can be a suicide bomber guided missile)
So WHY the eff isn't the GDMFing govt doing the ONE job it's got 8 alphabet agencies over-budgeted to do? High security enforcement and intel. Time for all of them to self check their commitment
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Passengers aboard an already-delayed American Airlines flight were stuck for nearly 3 hours at Harrisburg International Airport, until after 3 a.m., because of an airport equipment malfunction and an apparent insufficient airline staff to help the passengers off the flight another way.
The jetway was not working, and they said there were no stairs and the pilot wasn't able to arrange for a tug to pull the plane to another gate.
American Airlines flight 1549 from Dallas-Fort Worth
Passengers finally got off the plane through a rear stairway and walked to the terminal.
That two-and-a-half-hour wait between landing and deplaning would enable the airline to narrowly avoid potentially millions of dollars in fines under what’s sometimes known as the “tarmac delay rule.” Under the rule, airlines face fines of up to $27,500 per passenger for a wait on the ground, aboard an aircraft, of more than three hours.Airlines at Harrisburg, except American, use contracted “ground handlers,” as the companies are known, to perform tasks such as operating the jetbridges and — in a case like this — bringing stairs and managing the unusual arrival. But American — with more flights than any other airline at the airport plus its own subsidiary, Piedmont Airlines, with a maintenance and crew base at the airport — uses its own Piedmont workers to perform those jobs.
Based on several accounts, no such worker was at the airport when the flight initially landed, with the specific knowledge and training to operate the stairs.
I suppose the FAA and US Marshalls would lose their fuzzy little minds if someone simply made the call and used the emergency inflatable ramp and get the passengers off the damn plane in a nice bit of "training" in emergency plane evacuation equipment
Saturday, January 17, 2026
this is interesting... sueing for mental anguish, distress, and such - because an airline lost his luggage, and like all airlines, won't find it even when you tell them the location via Airtag
On December 28, 2023, American Airlines had a failure to deliver his checked luggage, which caused a severe mental health decline, due to the absence of essential clothing and prolonged stress from the baggage loss
According to the lawsuit, the traveler was exposed to the extreme cold of a Zurich winter without appropriate clothing, as all winter wear and personal items were inside the missing luggage.
He claims this situation directly contributed to a rapid deterioration of his mental health.
During his stay in Switzerland, which lasted several months, KR states that he was admitted to 3 different psychiatric hospitals. He spent more than one month as an inpatient receiving treatment.
Without any form of health or travel insurance, he received medical bills totaling over $50,000 from the Swiss healthcare system.
He had placed Apple AirTags inside the bags and shared precise location data with the airline.
Despite providing this information, KR alleges that the airline did not act on the tracking data to recover his belongings in a timely manner.
Because, airlines have not decided to be careful with your luggage, as they really don't care to be responsible for what happens at an airport. They have enough to deal with just flying airplanes, and getting maintenance on schedule, and past inspections.
It would be incredibly interesting if someone found a legal way into getting the airlines, and airports, to be vigilant about taking care of everything they are responsible for, and not losing luggage
Saturday, January 10, 2026
funny how 50 million dollars are in limbo, and neither Southwest Airlines nor the TSA are willing to refund them to the ticket buyers
TSA insisted it isn’t equipped to refund the 9/11 security fee to millions of travelers—while the agency defended a $48 million penalty against Southwest for allegedly failing to refund that same fee. The fight boils down to a simple question: when a passenger cancels and never flies, who has to send the money back—an airline, or the government that collected the fee?
Thursday, December 04, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Saturday, November 08, 2025
By the way, thoughts on the FAA / Airline / Airport issue
Must SUCK to try and catch a flight from SEMA to get home (I drive from Vegas to San Diego, 5 hours, and sure would be less risky to fly instead of deal with TIREDNESS for a boring 5 hour steering wheel chokehold.... trying to rely on caffeine and podcasts to combat being up for over 20 hours on the drive home, since waking up a 3 am to get to SEMA to hit it at about 10 am that morning.
Also, just my 2 cents, as what is the point of a blog if not to make a place to give your two cents about whatever... right?
Sure seems sunlight bright and clear to me that the US Govt isn't playing by the rules of "pass a damn budget, on time, every time, no delay, and balance the damn thing, and consider not blowing a couple trillion more that just gets added to the 34 trillion dollar deficit / bankruptcy thing no one deals with" that they once did, and wouldn't it be nice if instead of the repercussions and fallout being something only the regular citizens have to cope with (no airline traffic controllers getting paid, and neither are the other airport govt workers, are the soldiers, sailors and Marines getting paid?)
It sure would be nice to see that by not passing a budget (and I don't mean a month to month spending bill that only delays the inevitable "where's the next annual budget?" problem) the hundreds of millionaires that are supposed to work for the citizens, who aren't millionaires (huge gap of wealth between politicians and voters on that point) the politicians, and their office budgets, and their govt provided vehicles, transportation budget, per diem food allowance, and gas cards are all frozen from the day the govt gets into shut down mode, until they work out the solution and get the govt budget passed for the next annual cycle... and that they have to show up to work, in the big ol voting chamber where the House of Representatives, or Congress members, plus the VP and the Pres, sit at those desks and don't get to do anything but look at each other with hate and discontent, and eat cafeteria food made by unpaid US Capitol Building cafeteria workers, and use the bathrooms that unpaid US Capitol Building janitors clean... while those politicians are on a pay freeze.
But, more interesting than my notion of how the politicians should have to be burdened by the results of their lack of results on doing the only job they are hired to do - do not vote for a single one of them to get re-elected, they obviously are not capable of doing their job, and only us regular people have to bear that burden -
is it NOW clear that a high speed rail system around the country would be a great idea, and a way to avoid using the airlines/airports/air traffic controller who are not getting paid, and actually govt ordered to cut 10% of all flights?
Yes, a high speed rail system is expensive, and so are airline tickets. It would be nice to avoid the monopoly, and instant death of transport when the airports shut down, if we had a high speed rail system.
We've recently seen just how paralyzing the airlines are when ONE little thing happens, like
the volcano in Iceland diverting all air traffic from that New York to Europe route in April 2010,
or the covid pandemic cutting 90% of all air travel at it's worst,
the combo 1-2 punch of 2008 recession and jet fuel price surge,
the 2019 Boeing 737 Max groundings,
the 2017 British Airways data center power fail,
the Feb 2018 and Jan 2021 storms that screwed up Europe's airports
the Jan 2023 Southwest Airlines snafu back to back with the NOTAMS failure
the June 30th 2023 United Airline fiasco in Seattle-Tacoma airport
the March 2025 electrical substation explosion at Heathrow
Fall of 2025 drone intrusion into European airport airspace
Anyway, clearly, airports can be easily shut down by tech fails, uncommonly harsh weather, and paychecks getting cut off.
Sure would be a good thing to have another fast transportation way to get around the country, instead of driving your own car
Sunday, November 02, 2025
A woman is suing American Airlines after she alleges she was framed for trying to smuggle opiates into the U.S. by an airline employee who checked a bag full of drugs in her name
workers at the Lynden Pindling Airport in Nassau, Bahamas, are checking bags under the names of passengers to the U.S., then having conspirators pick up that narcotics-containing luggage at baggage claim in the U.S
In April, Dominguez was arrested for allegedly trying to traffic more than 100 bottles of codeine in a bag, only for her to later be cleared of wrongdoing when it could be proven she never checked a bag at all, and this bag was checked in before she ever arrived at the airport.
“ALISON DOMINGUEZ and the relevant law enforcement agencies would later learn that an AMERICAN AIRLINES employee falsely checked the bag in ALISON DOMINGUEZ’s name as part of a drug importation scheme designed to take advantage of the U.S. Customs pre-clearance system
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Plans to revive the long-defunct Pan American World Airways are moving forward.
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