Social Media Ideas for Airline Stories

My Worst, Most Memorable Flights Ever, From The Scary To The Awkward

Over the years, I’ve flown well over five million miles, across a countless number of airlines. Obviously there’s some variance between flights, but for the most part, things go pr...

Flight Delays Unleashed Navigating The Skies Together

On May 17, 2026, the United States aviation network experienced notable disruptions, resulting in 60 flight cancellations and 1,326 flight delays. The operational challenges impact...

Alaska Flight Attendant Power Trip: “Clash Of Personalities” Causes Family Removal From Flight

Yesterday I covered a bizarre story about a family being denied boarding on an Alaska Airlines flight, because the carrier’s system had the wrong visa requirements (which is embarr...

American Airlines Gets It Right for Eight Violinists

By Laurie Niles: We've heard the horror stories: a violin soloist forced to miss a flight - and to miss a concert appearance - because the airline wouldn't allow the instrument in...

Flight Insider : How Pilots and Crew Speak in Hidden Jargon Above You

Unlock airline secrets with insider flight jargon! Learn terms like red-eye, ground stop, air pocket, jump seat, deadhead, and holding pattern to decode your next journey.

An airline exec turned a jet around over nuts in a bag

Air France Accuses Passenger Of Not Taking Flight He Took, Demands €500

Here’s a story that several OMAAT readers have now brought to my attention, as they’re wondering how something like this is possible. I can totally see how this can happen in the f...

Delta Flight Attendant Trainer Accused Of Harassment, Airline Accused Of Turning Blind Eye

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a pretty damning story about the culture inside Delta Air Lines’ flight attendant training center in Atlanta. One senior flight attendant train...

Flying With Winair, A Pleasant, Efficient, Safe Caribbean Airline

I recently wrote about my experience at St. Barts Airport (SBH), which has to be one of the coolest airports in the world for aviation geeks. The most common way to travel to and f...

U.S. airlines chase profits in premium cabins, deepening a fare class divide on flights

TORONTO — They may arrive at the same destination, but two passengers on the same flight can have strikingly different travel experiences. One traveller breezes through a priority...

Assault at 35,000 feet: The disturbing rise of sexual misconduct in the skies

Evidence suggests reports of misconduct in the skies are increasing (Picture: Getty Images) The lights had barely dimmed after meal service on a 14-hour flight from Santiago to...

At 35,000 feet, strangers showed the very best of humanity

If you want to see the best of humanity, look no further than the fellow travellers sharing your cabin during an inflight medical emergency.

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Disasters In Air: A Tale Of 3 Avoidable Crashes

A “real” unavoidable disaster occurred on March 5, 1966 in Japan when a BOAC Boeing 707, soon after take-off, “broke up after encountering an abnormally strong gust of wind that ge...

Short flight becomes 25-hour travel ordeal after three failed attempts to land in Wellington

What should have been a straightforward trip to Wellington became a 25-hour ordeal involving three failed landing attempts, hours stuck on the tarmac, changing plans and frustrated...

United Flight Returns To Gate At 3AM, As Pilot Goes “One Minute” Over Duty Time

There’s a story that’s going viral about how a United Airlines flight that had diverted to Washington Dulles returned to its gate at 3AM after taxiing out to the runway, as the pil...

Flying With Tradewind Aviation, The Comfy Pilatus PC-12 “Airline”

I recently wrote about my experience at St. Barts Airport (SBH), which has to be one of the coolest airports in the world for aviation geeks. While the most common way to travel to...

Is There More Trouble In The Skies For Indian Airlines?

The invisible decisions already made about your next airplane journey

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our round-up of travel stories this week: a miraculous story of survival high on Everest, how to not be a cliché in Paris, plus the people who dec...

These Plane Passengers Are A Different Breed

Airplane Trolley Infested With Baby Rats: Airline & Catering Company Point Fingers

A catering cart loaded onto the flight of Israeli airline Arkia turned out to be full of baby rats. That’s of course an unpleasant discovery, but what’s perhaps even more interesti...

United Airlines subreddit riveted by Bluetooth goof gone awry

The r/unitedairlines subreddit is a special place for sensitive air travelers. It’s typically home to posts like “Where did the Stroopwaffel go???” (referring to one of United’s sn...

Tribute to generations of flight attendants in EX-YU aviation

Written by Veljko MarinkovićEvery year on May 31, the aviation community comes together to celebrate International Flight Attendants’ Day- a heartfelt occasion to thank a group of...

Sarah Okeseni: What Travelling as a Flight Attendant Has Taught Me

As a flight attendant, I’ve learned that every boarding pass carries two journeys. One is the obvious one, which is the trip from one country to another. The other journey happens...

US airlines are redesigning travel around their highest-paying passengers

They may arrive at the same destination, but two passengers on the same flight can have strikingly different travel experiences.