When Boeing tested its new in-flight Wi-Fi system, they needed passengers in the plane to simulate the presence of bodies and how those bodies interfered with the signal. But instead of human passengers, they used someth...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/20/The-Flight-of-the-Potatoes/
So blindingly obvious, now that The Cranky... ...many years ago, the idea was to become a premium airline that people would pay extra to fly. T... ...st a subsection of coach. It took the airline years to figure this out, but there are absolutel...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/09/How-Airlines-Make-Money/
Bioethicist and philosopher Pete... ...bber, a former chief economist for the Australian airline Qantas, has pointed out that, since 2... ...burned on a flight from Sydney to London. If the airline flies that route in both directions t... ...on current margins, about 13% of t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/23/should-airlines-charge-fat-people-more/
What do you get a... ...get a cat who has everything? The world's cutest airline , of course! Hello Kitty (which scored o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/10/hello-kitty-jet/
Airlines these days will hit you up for the darn...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/18/airline-hit-up-fliers-for-cash-mid-flight/
The airline industry will have to put together a new set of p... ...t of a pilot getting stuck in the toilet. A Delta Airlines flight from Asheville, North Caroline to New York... ...he plane, operated by regional carrier Chautauqua Airlines , to make an emergency landing....
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/18/pilot-locked-in-bathroom-causes-terrorist-scare/(YouTube link) A passenger on a Delta flight from Madison, Wisconsin to Atlanta, Georgia posted a video to CNN of a flying creature in the passenger section. The plane was diverted back to Madison, where the passeng...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/09/flying-creature-diverts-plane/
It happens every once in a while, and over time we end up with a list like this. Air stewards have more power than ever to keep people from getting where they need to go. And some people just seemed to be in the wrong pl...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/eight-people-kicked-off-planes-for-ridiculous-reasons/
Frontier Airlines called in a report that sparked a response from t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/06/guess-the-substance/
New York illustrator Christoph Niemann took a... ...York to Berlin and documented the absurdities of airline travel in pictures in his blog at The New York Ti...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/16/red-eye/
