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Explainer: What Are Your Rights If You Are Stranded By Closure Of Heathrow Airport?
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When is a Diversion, Not a Diversion? The Important Distinction That Could Decide Whether Your Flight Attendants Time Out Or Not
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People Are Just Discovering That United Airlines Flight Attendants Are Sometimes Allowed to Drink On Duty… The Only Major US Carrier With This Quirk

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Why Flight Attendants Secretly Approve of ‘Airport Theory’ – The Latest TikTok Trend That is Making Passengers Miss Their Flights
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Mother Issues Urgent Warning For Passengers to Get Up And Move On Their Flights After She Nearly Died From Double Blood Clot In Her Lungs
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Reality Check: Why Did Flight Attendants On The Delta Upside Down Crash Jet Tell Passengers To Hang Like Bats As Plane Burned?
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Southwest Flight Attendants Are Desperately Seeking Advice On How To Survive Red-Eyes As The Airline Officially Starts Night Flights For The First Time
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Delta Air Lines Makes Trainee Flight Attendants Share Hotel Room While Living On Minimum Wage
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Don’t Use This Common Airport Facility if You Want to Avoid Catching Norovirus Ahead Of Your Next Flight
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Guide: These Are the 18 Airlines That Let You Use Apple AirTags to Help Track Lost or Delayed Checked Luggage?
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JetBlue Tells Passenger it Can’t Take Responsbility For Broken Laptop That Flight Attendant Threw Iced Coffee Over
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Flight Attendants Say ‘Boarding Pay’ Is Making a Real Difference To Their Pay Checks And Some Are Now Choosing To Work Domestic Flights For More Money
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For Emirates, the New Business Class On its Airbus A350 Brings Meaning to the Phrase: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
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Flight Attendants On Delta Air Stowaway Flight Were Meant to Check the Toilets For Hitchhikers Before Plane Pushed Back From the Gate
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Why Travelling With The Wrong Airline To Europe Or The UK Could Leave You Seriously Out Of Pocket If Things Go Wrong
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Airbus Wants to Install a Radio-Equipped Toilet in Airplane Cockpits to Eliminate the Need For Two Pilots
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Why Your ‘Overzealous’ Flight Attendant is Actually Just Doing Their Job Properly… For Once
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This is the Scary Reason Why Flight Attendants Don’t Sit On Their Hands During Takeoff… Despite What You Might Have Heard
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Don’t Listen to Those Scare Stories About Why You Shouldn’t Have Ice On a Plane… Coffee Shops Are Probably Worse
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Why Experts Believe the ‘Brace, Brace’ Emergency Command We’re So Accustomed to Might Not Help in a Crash
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This is the Real Reason Why Flight Attendants Turn The Lights Off For Takeoff and Landing
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Why Do Airlines Tell You to Open Your Window Shades For Takeoff and Landing? And Why the United States is Unique
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Why do you sometimes see flight attendants traveling in uniform on another airline’s airplane?
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United Airlines Flight Attendants Can Get at Least $20 For Every Night They Choose Not to Stay in Company-Provided Hotels
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Airlines Are Hiding ‘Easter Eggs’ With Hidden Meanings Into Their Flight Numbers… Here Are Some of Our Favorites
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Which Airlines Have Already Chosen Starlink’s High-Speed Inflight Wi-Fi Service And Why Does it Matter?
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Do Flight Attendants Still Get Paid When They Are Involved in an Emergency?… It’s Complicated
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How Reaching Out To Your Airline On Elon Musk’s X Could Leave You Preyed Upon By Scammers And Out Of Pocket
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Why Does the United States Ban Extension Seatbelts For Securing Infants On Airplanes When the Rest of the World Requires It?
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Why Do Gate Agents and Flight Attendants Describe a Flight as ‘Completely Full’… Surely You Can’t Get Fuller Than Full
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Why is it Often Cheaper to Have a Layover Rather Than Flying Non-Stop to Your Final Destination?
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When is it Acceptable to Press the Flight Attendant Call Button?
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Could Your Airplane Be At Risk of ‘Tipping Over’ If You Stand Up Too Quickly After Arriving at the Gate?
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If You’re In The Plane Bathroom When the Oxygen Masks Drop, Should You Make a Run For Your Seat?
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Airlines Love ‘Boarding Not Boarding’ to Achieve On-Time Performance But Is There a Better Way? 
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Is it Acceptable to ‘Go For a Walk’ Around the Airplane During a Long-Haul Flight? Here’s the Correct Answer
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Why Do Passengers Find it So Hard to Use New Supersized Overhead Bins Even When There Are Printed Instructions?
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This is Why ‘Dine-On-Demand’ in Business Class is More Complicated Than You Might Think
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Annoyed With Flight Attendants Plunging 787 Dreamliner Window Shades Into Darkness and Then Locking Them? Ask The Crew to Set a Range
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OMG, Qatar Airways Flight Attendants Left a Dead Body In Their Seat Surrounded By Other Passengers – But What Else Were They Supposed to Do?
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I Thought The Airline Industry Prided Itself in Safety? Flight Attendants Struggle to Close Door Risking Fall to Tarmac Below
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Lufthansa Abolishes Mandatory HIV Tests For Flight Attendants After Years-Long Equality Campaign
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British Airways Offering Business Class Ticket Giveaway to Staff if They Manage to Hit Punctuality Targets During Easter Holidays
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Poland Grapples With Bomb Hoax Dilemma After Threats Force Two Passenger Jets to Make Emergency Landings on the Same Day
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Spanish Court Orders Flag Carrier Iberia to Limit Hand Luggage On Airbus A350 Because Overhead Lockers Are So Big
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Flight Attendants Are Scared They’re About to Lose One of the Best Perks of the Job
Claims: Ryanair Still Isn't Complying with Local Laws in New Cabin Crew Contracts
Ryanair Could Be Forced to Make Big Payout After Passenger is Left Badly Burnt By Hot Pasta
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Why Don’t Iberia’s New $317 Million Long-Haul Airbus A350 Aircraft Have Proper Business Class Seats?
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Why Have Flights In And Out of Beijing Suddenly Been Grounded And Could it Mean a Military Coup is Underway?
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So, You Really Thought Air Travel This Summer Wasn’t Going to Be a Hot Mess?
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