Among the many bizarre requests received by Virgin Atlantic flight attendants were: “Could you turn the engines down because they are too noisy?”; “Please can the Captain stop the turbulence?”; “Can you take my children to the playroom?”; and “Is there a McDonald’s onboard?”
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CNN pays airports to show news on…
CNN pays airports to show news on their TVs. It’s not normal CNN but a special version that excludes any stories about plane crashes.
There were men-only ‘executive’…
There were men-only ‘executive’ flights until the 70s with cocktails, complimentary cigars and steak dinners.
From the 1950s until the 1970s…
From the 1950s until the 1970s, vending machines were used at American airports to sell life insurance policies covering death, in the event that the buyer’s flight crashed.
In 1987, Steve Rothstein purchased…
In 1987, Steve Rothstein purchased an AAirpass ticket for $233,509. During the 10 years Rothstein owned the pass, he flew more than 10 million miles, earned over 40 million frequent flier miles (all of which he gave away) and made more than 500 trips to England, costing the company $21 million. It was only revoked because he was approaching other random people at the airport and offering them his companion flight (which he paid $150,000 for).
In 1999 an engineer…
In 1999 an engineer earned $150,000 in air miles by buying 12,150 cups of pudding worth $3000.
Two women tried to smuggle their dead relative…
Two women tried to smuggle their dead relative’s body onto a flight by putting him in a wheelchair and putting sunglasses on him. It was only when airport staff tried to check him in and he wouldn’t respond that suspicions were raised.
Samoa Air has become the world’s first …
Samoa Air has become the world’s first airline to introduce a pricing policy which charges passengers by body weight. Time to diet.
A man wore 70 items of clothing in a Chi …
A man wore 70 items of clothing in a Chinese airport to avoid the bagging charge.