Korean Air no longer offering instant noodles over burn risks during turbulence
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Korean Air no longer offering instant noodles over burn risks during turbulence

ByNews Polite

This airline doesn’t want to be in any hot water. Korean Air will no longer provide economy class passengers with instant noodles on long flights to prevent burn incidents during turbulence — three months after rough air currents left an elderly passenger on another airline dead and dozens of others injured….

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…

United Airlines aims to crack down on flight attendants who abuse sick time
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United Airlines aims to crack down on flight attendants who abuse sick time

ByNews Polite

The Labor Department is reviewing United Airlines’ leave policies after the carrier implemented stricter measures to crack down on employees abusing sick time.  “Through numerous recent inquiries from workers, the Wage and Hour Division has become aware of a possible change in United Airlines’ leave policies,” said Jessica Looman, the Labor…

Parts of popular tourist town Jasper ‘burned to the ground’ by wildfires in Canada: ‘Significant loss’
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Parts of popular tourist town Jasper ‘burned to the ground’ by wildfires in Canada: ‘Significant loss’

ByNews Polite

Parts of the popular tourist town of Jasper in Canada have been fully destroyed as a wildfire continues to ravage the historic alpine resort and the surrounding national park. On Wednesday, authorities reported more than 170 blazes across the western province of Alberta, prompted by a lightning storm, fuelled by…

New ‘Luggage Losers’ site scolds airlines for lost baggage: ‘Avoid flying with them’
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New ‘Luggage Losers’ site scolds airlines for lost baggage: ‘Avoid flying with them’

ByNews Polite

Revenge is taking off. A traveler created a whole website to expose an airline after they reportedly lost his girlfriend’s luggage. Rather than contacting the airline and expressing his frustrations directly to them in an email, entrepreneur Pieter Levels created “Luggage Losers. A man created a whole website to expose…

‘Tip rage’ takes hold in the US, workers insist they deserve more
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‘Tip rage’ takes hold in the US, workers insist they deserve more

ByNews Polite

We’ve had enough of gratuitous gratuities. Increasingly common prompts to leave an extra something for the employees at a wide range of businesses across the country has patrons totally tipped off, according to reports. Welcome to America’s “tip rage” era, according to USA Today’s Christopher Elliott. The increasing ubiquity of…

Here’s why experts are warning against bizarre trend
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Here’s why experts are warning against bizarre trend

ByNews Polite

They put this dog down. Experts have ripped the viral “raw dogging” trend, claiming it could be unhealthy to go without creature comforts on a long-haul flight. For the uninitiated, raw dogging refers to flyers forgoing in-flight entertainment, including movies and movies, as well as avoiding necessities such as food,…