It happened again. Reddit user Kitsune_chan29 was sitting in an aisle seat. The woman picked it out for herself in advance so that the long flight would be more bearable. Then a fellow passenger came along and asked her if she could trade places. However, in a post on the subreddit ‘Am I the [Jerk]?‘,…
Achieving your goals and taking over the world would be quite easy. If only it wasn’t raining today and this sofa wasn’t so comfy, and that one teacher ten years ago hadn’t told you that you would never do anything good with your life. Sounds depressing, right? Luckily, there are hundreds of inspiring people all…
On the 20th episode of the 10th season of Family Guy, Meg gets kidnapped in Paris, so Brian and Stewie fly to Europe to save her. On the plane, they are approached by a mother holding a kid in her arms, asking if they can switch seats so that she can travel with her husband —…
Nearly 10 years later, new evidence from an American company sparked hope in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with officials expressing confidence in approving a new search proposal, regardless of its cost. Texas-based company Ocean Infinity reportedly claimed to have found scientific evidence of the plane’s final resting place at the…
You’d think having to sit shoulder to shoulder 30,000 to 40,000 feet (9,144 meters to 12,192 meters) in the sky and going 575-600 mph (925-965 km/h) would make people more cooperative. After all, it’s not like they can just leave if things get unpleasant. Yet we often find ways to get on each other’s nerves….
What do you find most stressful when traveling by plane? Seeing someone sitting in your assigned seat, realizing you forgot your headphones or seeing a baby boarding the craft? A lot of people give parents dirty looks, in anticipation of a few hours of non-stop crying. Fortunately, there are people like Meegan Rubin, who, upon…
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has recently had to pay an innocent man roughly $10,700 in compensation after falsely accusing him of misbehaving on a flight he never boarded and adding him to a no-fly list, according to the Irish newspaper, The Journal. Eoin Michael Cahill had reportedly booked a flight from Dublin to Copenhagen on the low-budget…
Moms deserve a break every once in a while. But when this parent needed an upgrade from “mom duty” to “mom luxury” and left her baby and boyfriend in economy while she enjoyed a baby-free flight in business class, people questioned her moral compass. Ellis Cochlin, from the UK, admitted that she had left her…
Picture a cabin so empty that the echo of your own thoughts can be the in-flight entertainment. That’s the kind of airplane that the story’s protagonist, Chef Anthony Thomas, had walked into before the drama unfolded. Imagine the sheer bliss of having an entire bus, a whole movie theatre, a parking lot, or even a…
