NYC airport named best in the US: new survey
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NYC airport named best in the US: new survey

ByNews Polite

Hold onto your luggage, folks!  NYC’s dramatically made-over LaGuardia Airport has been named best in the fifty states, according to the Forbes Travel Guide.  Yes, that’s the same LaGuardia that President Biden once infamously compared to “some third-world country.”  President Biden once infamously compared the hub to “some third-world country.”…

Video shows American Airlines plane sucking up cargo container on tarmac
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Video shows American Airlines plane sucking up cargo container on tarmac

ByNews Polite

Wild surveillance video has captured the moment an American Airlines plane sucked a cargo container into its engine — tearing it completely to shreds. The caught-on-camera saga unfolded just moments after the flight from London had touched down at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport last Thursday, ABC7 reported. The plane had stopped…

SF sues Oakland over ‘confusing’ airport name change: ‘Bullying’
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SF sues Oakland over ‘confusing’ airport name change: ‘Bullying’

ByNews Polite

Fog-geddaboutit! San Francisco has been accused of “bullying” after slapping nearby Oakland with a trademark lawsuit — sharply warning the crossbay rival to “stay away” from its brand. The brouhaha by the Bay began after the burg Gertrude Stein once described as having “no there there” rebranded its airport (OAK) —…

Trump vows to bring back free speech, calls ‘fake news’ a ‘threat to this country’
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Trump vows to bring back free speech, calls ‘fake news’ a ‘threat to this country’

ByNews Polite

Former President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to bring back free speech in America “because it’s being taken away,” after wowing 15,000 supporters by arriving to a Wisconsin rally in his private jet. “They’ve taken away your free speech, and the fake news threat is a threat to this country,” said…

Apparent cyberattack leaves Seattle-Tacoma International Airport facing major internet outages
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Apparent cyberattack leaves Seattle-Tacoma International Airport facing major internet outages

ByNews Polite

An apparent cyberattack disrupted internet, phones, email and other systems at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for a third day on Monday as Port of Seattle officials worked to investigate the outages and restore full service. “We’re working around the clock to get necessary systems back online and to mitigate impacts to…

Woman, 24, reveals shocking reason she was ‘banned for life by American Airlines’
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Woman, 24, reveals shocking reason she was ‘banned for life by American Airlines’

ByNews Polite

High-mile criminals. Erin Wright, who goes by @erin_wright_ on TikTok, revealed how American Airlines allegedly “banned” her from flying with the airline for life. “I got permanently banned from flying American Airlines for having sexual relations with a man on a plane even though I’m a lesbian,” Wright, 24, wrote…

Passengers can use the practice to their advantage
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Passengers can use the practice to their advantage

ByNews Polite

We’re not on board with this. A new report exposes the US airlines most guilty of overbooking their flights — a bizarre industry quirk that leaves hundreds of thousands of paying passengers grounded each year. The findings, compiled using statistics from the government’s most recent Air Travel Consumer Report, found the…

Orlando International Airport encourages flyers to air grievances on Festivus, the fictional ‘Seinfeld’ holiday
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Orlando International Airport encourages flyers to air grievances on Festivus, the fictional ‘Seinfeld’ holiday

ByNews Polite

It’s Festivus for fed-up flyers as long as they keep their moves PG. The Orlando International Airport (MCO) set up a comment box with a pen and paper where annoyed travelers could submit “airing of grievances” Saturday alongside a traditional Festivus pole inspired by an episode of “Seinfeld.” “For those…