Trivia 2014 (miscellaneous news)

[Passenger]

KLM's new Lost & Found service:

[sn26567]

A Virgin America flight diverted to Omaha, Nebraska, while on its way from Boston to Los Angeles had to make the unscheduled stop because of a passenger who was "masturbating in flight and later tried to open an exit door," according to the police report filed on the incident.

http://mashable.com/2014/09/22/virgin-a ... -diverted/

[convair]

It had to happen on Virgin of course!

[Passenger]

Embraer 175 from LOT Polish Airlines in Mamma Mia! outfit:

http://warszawa.gazeta.pl/warszawa/51,3 ... 63980.html

[airazurxtror]

A novel in French about the crash of Air France Constellation F-BAZN on Santa Maria, Azores, on 29 octobre 1949 has recently been published : "Constellation", par Adrien Bosc.
Has somebody read it, and what does he think of it ?

http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/adrien-bo ... 1931_3.php

[sn26567]

An El Al flight from JFK to Tel-Aviv was delayed after ultra-Orthodox passengers refused to sit next to women. One passenger described the whole experience as "an 11 hour ordeal," and another tells that the plane was prevented from taking off because "people stood in the aisles and refused to go forward."

"Although everyone had tickets with seat numbers that they purchased in advance, they asked us to trade seats with them, and even offered to pay money, since they cannot sit next to a woman," another passenger explains. "It was obvious that the plane won't take off as long as they keep standing in the aisles."

After the pilot pleaded with everyone to take their seats if only for takeoff, the plane finally departed Wednesday morning. But as soon as it was in the air, many of the passengers quickly stood in the aisle, in order to preserve several feet of sin-space between them and the opposite sex. One female passenger on the flight tells "I ended up sitting next to a haredi man who jumped out of his seat the moment we had finished taking off and proceeded to stand in the aisle."

The aisle was reportedly crowded with men praying throughout the duration of the flight, making it extremely difficult for other passengers to access the restrooms and preventing flight attendants from distributing refreshments. "I went to the bathroom and it was a mission impossible, the noise was endless," another shellshocked passenger recalls.

El Al issued this statement in the wake of the incident: "El Al does everything it can to give its passengers the best possible service year-round. These days bring with them a peak in air traffic to Israel, and our crews on the ground and in the air are doing the best they can to address the needs and requests of all our travelers while trying not to fall behind schedule.

"The company will examine the complaints and if some passengers are found to have acted out of line the company will examine its future steps."

[SpottairBRU]

A novel in French about the crash of Air France Constellation F-BAZN on Santa Maria, Azores, on 29 octobre 1949 has recently been published : "Constellation", par Adrien Bosc.
Has somebody read it, and what does he think of it ?

http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/adrien-bo ... 1931_3.php

I bought it last week, it is next on my reading list... when my current book (the latest Ken Follett) is finished. Still 1050 pages to go, though

[sn26567]

Mamma Mia! This LOT Polish Airlines Embraer E175 promotes the musical's launch in Warsaw next year.



It might be possible to see it in Brussels soon, although LOT usually sends an E195.

[sn26567]

In the last 6 months, 72 snow globes were confiscated from hand luggage at London City Airport! Don't forget, check in liquids over 100ml.

[jan_olieslagers]

Lovely! We are really being well looked after.

[simulator]

LOT Emb75 with Mamma Mia livery just landed at EBBR tonight. It will leave tomorrow as LO232 ETD 0750. Overnight it stays at gate 153.

[sn26567]

I have pics but can not post them on Luchtzak...

Easy: when you write a new post, click on "Upload an attachment", select your picture, click on "Add the file", then on "Place inline".

[Passenger]

Some inflight photos...

http://instagram.com/passengershaming

[Passenger]

1.500 disabled children got a unique experience at Antwerp Airport today. The "Wings for Children Foundation" managed to give them a 20 minute flight on different carriers:

Report from today's event:
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/3804/Belgie/vi ... djes.dhtml

Organization:
http://www.wingsforchildren.eu

[airazurxtror]

http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_ ... id=8367974

Extraits :

L'aéroport de Bruxelles est l'un des endroits les plus surveillés du pays. Et pourtant, la mouvance jihadiste y aurait des sympathisants. De source policière, nous apprenons que plusieurs employés sont partis combattre en Syrie, d’autres seraient encore candidats au départ. Il s’agit principalement de bagagistes : des travailleurs qui possèdent des badges de sécurité les menant directement au tarmac de l’aéroport, et donc aux avions.
D’après nos informations, une quinzaine de badges ont bien été annulés à l’aéroport.

Brussels airport is one of the most watched areas of the country. Yet the jihadist movement could have sympathizers. From police sources we learn that several employees went to fight in Syria, others could still be candidates to same. They are mainly baggage handlers: workers who have security passes leading directly to the tarmac at the airport, thus to planes.
According to our information, fifteen badges have been canceled at the airport. .

[airazurxtror]

BLACKPOOL AIRPORT ANNOUNCEMENT
On 28 August 2014, we announced our intention to find a buyer for the airport operating company. The airport operations have been making a loss for a number of years.
We regretfully confirm that if no agreement can be reached before 7 October 2014 which ensures the viability of its operations, then it is likely that the airport operations will close. In this event, we expect that the last commercial flights will take place on Wednesday 15 October 2014.

[airDD]

US media is reporting that a person who recently got Ebola, flew with Brussels airlines before connecting to an United flight in BRU.

Scary, is this being reported in Belgium and are the co pax on flight being informed?

AirDD

[Stij]

Hi AirDD,

Yes, it s in the news! I don t know if the other pax are being informed...

Cheers,

Stij

[airazurxtror]

The impact of the Air France pilots’ strike in September is expected to increase easyJet’s revenue by c.£5 million as Air France passengers switched to easyJet. This combined with the strong finish to the year means that the Board’s expectation is for a pre-tax profit for the twelve months ended 30 September 2014 of between £575 million and £580 million compared with the previous guidance of £545 million to £570 million.

- See more at: http://mediacentre.easyjet.com/stories/ ... OJlXg.dpuf

[sn26567]

US media is reporting that a person who recently got Ebola, flew with Brussels airlines before connecting to an United flight in BRU.

Scary, is this being reported in Belgium and are the co pax on flight being informed?

Not scary at all: he only became contagious 4 days after his arrival in Dallas. This was already reported in the Ebola thread: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=54071&start=140#p306190