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Air Travel

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Kill The Geese, Now! (Or People Might Get Killed by Them)

    Avians and airplanes are a bad mix -- and the skies above New York City are no exception. On Tuesday, a bird strike prompted a JetBlue plane to make an emergency landing. Last week, also, a bird strike forced a Delta flight to make an emergency landing. And don't forget the Miracle on the Hudso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2012

    New York Airports Are Good At Making People Late

    ​It wasn't too long ago we brought you the latest report on how New York's airports suck. Well, today we have some more good news from the New York Times . The paper reports that the airspace that includes JFK, LaGuardia and Newark (as well as Jersey's Teterboro Airport and Philadelphia Intern ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2012

    Air Safety on the Cheap

    They're responsible for airport security but contractors still make poverty wages

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    American Airlines Responds to Alec Baldwin Situation on Facebook

    ​Alec Baldwin -- closer, formerly prolific tweeter, and fake future mayoral candidate -- had a little incident with American Airlines yesterday because of his refusal to stop playing Words With Friends. Baldwin wouldn't shut off his phone when the flight attendant asked him to and says he was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Bulldogs Don't Fly Commercial

    You might think a bulldog has the best life ever, being adorable and frequently stopped on streets to be gazed at and pet by adoring masses, and also getting its poop picked up by its owner whenever necessary, and not even having to work a 9 to 5 or 8 to 10 job...a bulldog is in the business of simp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Delta Airlines Charges U.S. Soldiers $2,800 for Excess Baggage

    In a move sure to capture the ire of Americans across the country, Delta Airlines has charged American troops returning from Afghanistan via Baltimore Washington International Airport $2,800 ($200 each) in extra baggage fees. Here's video from soldier Robert O'Hair, explaining the situation, with wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    9/11 Flight Numbers Will Be Retired Forever

    ​United Continental will "permanently retire" flight numbers 93 and 175, Bloomberg reports, in honor of the flights hijacked on September 11, 2011. Over the past decade, the numbers have not been in use, but an error earlier this week caused them to pop up again, much to the chagrin of pilots' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Complaining About the TSA Will Get You Targeted by the TSA

    ​Well, what do you know about this: If you bitch and moan and kick and scream about getting screened (or groped) by the TSA, you are that much more likely to get screened that much more thoroughly (or aggressively). Especially if you do it in the airport security line, where the TSA screeners ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Big French Plane Hits Small American Plane at JFK

    On Monday night an Air France Airbus A380, the biggest passenger plane in use, knocked into a much smaller Comair CRJ 700 Regional Jet at John F. Kennedy International Airport, spinning the tiny thing almost 90-degrees, but injuring no one, NBC New York reports. A minor event when all was said and d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2011

    Southwest Grounding 79 Planes After Hole Incident

    ​Southwest is grounding 79 members of its fleet after a 3- or 4-foot hole tore open in the fuselage of a plane traveling from Phoenix to Sacramento. It had to make an emergency landing at a military base. The grounded planes are being inspected for something called "aircraft skin fatigue."

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Is Marcel's Quantum Kitchen a Modernist Cuisine for the TV?; Hardee's and Carl's Jr. Add Turkey Burgers to Menu

    ​The federal government is investing $60 million in three major studies on the effects of climate change on crops and forests. [BusinessWeek] Modernist Cuisine for TV? Syfy is debuting Marcel's Quantum Kitchen, a new show starring molecularly inclined Top Chef alum Marcel Vigneron. [Wired] A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Stewart: The Little Airport That Couldn't

    steve p2008​Stewart International Airport is only an hour and a half drive from Midtown, but it's the least popular commercial airport in the New York area. The New York Times reports the oft-ignored airport was again largely overlooked during a meeting held by transportation officials last we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Hijacking Alert Issued Over Spilt Airplane Coffee

    ​Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    To Think, We Might Have Lost Leonardo DiCaprio Last Night

    ​Surely by now you've heard about the Moscow-bound Delta flight that blew an engine upon takeoff last night and then circled JFK for an hour dumping fuel until they could make a safe emergency landing. Close call. Even closer: National treasure Leonardo DiCaprio was one of the 200 people on bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Update: Hijacking Threat Aboard American Airlines Flight to JFK "Non-Credible"

    ​We're hearing of a hijacking threat made on an American Airlines flight heading from San Francisco to JFK today. After a threat was reportedly made by phone that a hijacker was on board, passengers on American Airlines Flight 24, which was preparing for takeoff, have been asked to deplane and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Drag Star Gets Horrible Treatment From Delta Airlines

    David Shankbone​Get a load of this email thread between Gary Hall (aka drag star Shequida) and Delta Airlines over terrible service that caused Hall to miss his flight and forfeit big sums of money. In return, they offered him 100 smackers. And he smacked them right back down!

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    US Airways Flight 1101: Suicide Bird Strike Lands Direct Hit, Forced to Make Emergency Landing

    ​Again, with the fucking birds.

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2010

    United Airlines plane makes emergency landing at Newark

    ​Update: the Bergen Record is reporting that three passengers were slightly injured, according to an airline spokesman. -- United Airlines Flight 634, an Airbus flying from Chicago's O'Hare Airport, made an emergency landing at Newark Airport this morning after the right hand landing gear fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    After Crash, FAA Makes New Rules for Hudson River Flights

    ​After a mid-air collision between a small charter plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River this summer killed nine people, observers were quick to blame the Federal Aviation Administration for poorly regulating the airspace, letting it become clogged with private planes. Toda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    US Airways Cuts 1,000 Jobs, Ground Crew Base at LaGuardia

    ​US Airways always comes up when we're looking for cheap flights, and there's a reason for that: like many airlines these days, it's not doing so hot. Today the troubled carrier announces it's going to cut 1,000 jobs and some flights to Europe, and close its ground crew base at LaGuardia and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    AWKWARD!

    Jude and Sienna keep their distance on Broadway

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    High Line Park Results in New Restaurant Row; Green Roofs Everywhere

    Mere months after reports claiming the exact opposite, a new study suggests that living near a fast food outlet actually does not increase weight in children, and that living near supermarkets, with their fresh fruits and vegetables, does nothing to lower weight. Go figure. [Science Daily] A survey ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Near-Bankrupt NY Waterway to Sue US Airways for Water Rescue Funds

    We mentioned in January that there were signs that the heroic water landing and rescue of US Airways Flight 1549 might result in lawsuits. Now Crain's New York Business reports that NY Waterway, whose ferries helped haul Flight 1549 passengers out of the Hudson River, "is preparing a lawsuit again ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Sully Fever! Flight 1549 Pilots, Crew Get Keys to the City

    Mayor Bloomberg introduced "five real American heroes, the crew of US Airways Flight 1549" at City Hall today in a Key to the City ceremony. Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, and flight attendants Donna Dent, Sheila Dail and Doreen Walsh received their honors for their d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    In-Flight Hanging Apparently False, But Stephen Fry Really Stuck in Lift

    American Airlines flight 834, arriving this evening from the Dominican Republic, was met by emergency personnel because of a medical situation with a passenger -- not, American Airlines spokespeople insist, because the passenger had tried to hang himself, as persistent twittering had reported. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Passenger, Bill O'Reilly Spoiling "Miracle on the Hudson" Buzz

    Remember when US Airways Flight 1549's heroic Hudson River landing made us all feel good about America and ourselves? Well, it's all going to shit. Earlier this week Chicago's Joe Hart, one of the survivors, told USA Today that he'd like to be "made whole for the incident," and we all know what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Have a Happy Flight-Delayed Christmas

    Remember when US Airways Flight 1549's heroic Hudson River landing made us all feel good about America and ourselves? Well, it's all going to shit. Earlier this week Chicago's Joe Hart, one of the survivors, told USA Today that he'd like to be "made whole for the incident," and we all know what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Audio From Jet Crash Online at VF; Pilots Angry

    Remember when US Airways Flight 1549's heroic Hudson River landing made us all feel good about America and ourselves? Well, it's all going to shit. Earlier this week Chicago's Joe Hart, one of the survivors, told USA Today that he'd like to be "made whole for the incident," and we all know what ... More >>

  • News

    July 23, 2008

    At JFK, Erhan Yildirim Clears Corpses For Takeoff

    A wing and a prayer

  • Art

    April 8, 2008

    A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

    A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    'Prisoners of War Have More Rights' Than Stranded Airline Passengers

    A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2007

    NY's Airports Are Worse Than Most: Report

    A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

  • News

    October 17, 2006

    Trouble in the Air

    Reagan's mass firing of air traffic controllers made American skies much less safe in the 1980s. Is Bush's flight plan the same?

  • News

    October 17, 2006

    Out of Control

    When air traffic control shares blame for fatal crashes

  • News

    March 14, 2006

    Moussaoui's Guilt: Less Profound Than Airline's Own Incompetence?

    When air traffic control shares blame for fatal crashes

  • News

    December 6, 2005

    In D.C., It's All Relative

    Congress members, staff, and lobbyists—one big happy family

  • News

    June 7, 2005

    FAA's Security Measures Won't Fly

    Congress members, staff, and lobbyists—one big happy family

  • News

    June 7, 2005

    Hijacking the Facts

    FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11 cover-up—and then hide it some more

  • News

    February 8, 2005

    Fear of Flying

    Whistle-blowers say the FAA ignored a decade of pre–9-11 warnings

  • News

    February 8, 2005

    The 9-11 Gun

    Whistle-blowers say the FAA ignored a decade of pre–9-11 warnings

  • News

    December 30, 2003

    Flying Blind

    Among the Terminal Ills: Bodies in Wheel Wells

  • News

    September 10, 2002

    The Year in Terror

    Among the Terminal Ills: Bodies in Wheel Wells

  • News

    May 21, 2002

    Knowing Much, Bush Did Little to Protect America

    Among the Terminal Ills: Bodies in Wheel Wells

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    Pilots’-Eye View

    The Crash of Flight 587 Raises Questions About Training and Air Traffic Control

  • Specials

    November 27, 2001

    Letters

    The Crash of Flight 587 Raises Questions About Training and Air Traffic Control

  • News

    November 13, 2001

    What Color Is Your Parachute?

    Her Boss at United Got $3.2 Million. She Got Shoved Out the Door.

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    The Next Attack?

    Her Boss at United Got $3.2 Million. She Got Shoved Out the Door.

  • News

    September 25, 2001

    Local Is Global

    Bomb Plots in Manila, Mayhem in Manhattan

  • News

    September 18, 2001

    Airline Safety Remains Slack

    Bomb Plots in Manila, Mayhem in Manhattan

  • News

    October 6, 1998

    Winging it

    Bomb Plots in Manila, Mayhem in Manhattan

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