from USA Today. I missed this one when it was first published and it came up today when I was looking up something for work.
My personal favorite:
A fracas involving 20 passengers erupted in June on a flight from Lagos, Nigeria, to London. It was touched off when a passenger took exception to the reclining seat in front of him. Fliers duked it out with fists, bottles and belts, causing the captain to make an emergency landing.
Namely because I’ve never understood the huge kerfuffle re: reclining airline seats, yet it’s a frequent topic of conversation on FlyerTalk. Some favorite threads:
- Just Get Rid of Reclining Seats in Coach
- Passenger reclined the seat to my knees- so I grabbed and pulled the seat often
I guess because I’m only 5’3, someone reclining doesn’t get in too much of my space. Unless, of course, I can’t see my RED screen on VX, and then it’s war!
A 64-year-old man was hospitalized earlier this month after chugging a liter of vodka rather than surrendering it at a checkpoint in Germany’s Nuremberg airport. (Full story: Man chugs vodka in airport line)
Well I suppose that’s one way to get around the 3 oz/100 mL regulations. I’m still waiting for better toothpastes to be available in the smaller sizes.
Coming from my own background in tourism development, but this makes me chuckle:
Royal Nepal Airlines for using a photo of the Incan ruins at Machu Picchu in Peru to illustrate a poster that asked, “Have you seen Nepal?”
You would really hope that a country/airline would know its own product well enough to market it.
