An annual ranking of the best and worst airlines in the United States has Delta leading the pack.
The Points Guy‘s third annual list ranked the 10 largest U.S. airlines from best to worst. Criteria included timeliness, comfort, cancellations, pricing, customer satisfaction, lost baggage among others.
“This report directly reflects the changes in the industry and consumer preferences with shake-ups in our top rankings,” said Brian Kelly, The Points Guy CEO and founder.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Authorities in Indonesia raised the death toll from floods and landslides in the easternmost province of Papua to nearly 80 on Monday as President Joko Widodo called for the urgent evacuation of victims from devastated communities.
“The crew of this flight … requested police assistance upon arrival after two passengers became disruptive in-flight,” Ryanair spokesman Piaras Kelly said in a statement to USA TODAY. “The aircraft landed normally and police removed and detained two individuals.”
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— Ben Wardrop (@wardrop_ben) March 16, 2019
Was still blood in the cabin when we got on for the flight home pic.twitter.com/mUpeKoY20Y
— Stephen Griffiths (@sgriff1990) March 16, 2019
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Rick Munarriz, The Motley FoolAll of the headlines and social media uproar centers on Disney World’s introduction of a new holiday tier to its pricing. It will cost visitors $159 for a single-day ticket to visit any of Disney’s four Florida theme parks during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day this year, a whopping 23% more than they paid to visit Disney World during the last week of 2018. However, the more affordable passes received more modest 2% to 8% increases, with the resort’s cheapest one-day passes not budging higher at all.
As happens every year around this time, Walt Disney World has raised the price of park passes—this year, both for one day, one park passes and park hopper tickets. The shift comes shortly after Disney announced the opening date for the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land.
In the days since the horrific Ethiopian Airlines crash, I have received a lot of email from pilots, aircraft engineers, and others with experience in aviation. These have been in response to three previous posts: first here, then here, then most recently here (with quotes from pilots’ observations about the Boeing 737 Max via NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System).
While I sift through the other messages, let me start with one from a highly experienced pilot and flight instructor. His name is Wally Magathan, and he has worked as an airline pilot, an Air Force pilot and C-5 Galaxy flight instructor, and an instructor in airline L-1011 flight-simulators. I know him through COPA, the organization of pilots and owners of Cirrus’s small single-engine airplanes.
Emily O’Connor, 21, from Solihull, says Thomas Cook staff threatened to remove her from a flight she boarded from Birmingham to Tenerife unless she put a jacket on.
Staff threatened to remove Emily O’Connor if she did not cover up. [Photo: Instagram/Twitter]
Flying from Bham to Tenerife, Thomas Cook told me that they were going to remove me from the flight if I didn’t “cover up” as I was “causing offence” and was “inappropriate”. They had 4 flight staff around me to get my luggage to take me off the plane. pic.twitter.com/r28nvSYaoY
— Emily O'Connor (@emroseoconnor) March 12, 2019
To top it off they allowed a man hurl abuse at me whilst the Flight manager and 4 air staff stood and said nothing.
— Emily O'Connor (@emroseoconnor) March 12, 2019
asked the plane (as they were all listening now anyway) if I was offending anyone, no-one said a word. The manager then went to get my bag to remove me from the flight. A man then shouted “Shut up you pathetic woman. Put a f*cking jacket on”- the staff said nothing to him
— Emily O'Connor (@emroseoconnor) March 12, 2019
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A group of ladies from sacramento were kicked off their flight to Mexico for a bride’s bachelorette party. An employee for American Airlines said the bride’s mother appeared to be drunk.
Amber Granlund, a bridesmaid who spoke with Fox 40, said it was a misunderstanding, and that the bride’s mom was just nervous about traveling.
“She’s in her 50s, almost 60s,” Granlund said. “There could have been something else going on.”
Granlund said that the mother of bride had consumed one or two drinks before boarding but was definitely not intoxicated. “It wasn’t drunken behavior,” she said.
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Boeing (BA) shares declined Monday after one of the airline’s new 737 Max 8 models crashed Sunday, killing all passengers on board and raising questions over the safety of the company’s aircraft.
All 157 passengers and crew members aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 departing from Addis Ababa were killed in a crash on Sunday, which took place minutes into the flight. At least eight Americans were aboard, along with individuals from more than 30 other nationalities.
A 27-year-old man was arrested at Oakland International Airport on Sunday morning after he allegedly brandished a small knife he said he intended to use to harm a police officer, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said.
The man, whose name is being withheld pending formal charges, can be seen on surveillance video released by the Sheriff’s Department apparently looking into a parked patrol car.
Sgt. Ray Kelly said Sunday that “luckily our deputies were not in the car. They were out on foot patrol.”
