Transatlantic flight returns to Miami after ‘abusive’ first-class passenger refused to wear a mask
3 years, 2 months ago

Transatlantic flight returns to Miami after ‘abusive’ first-class passenger refused to wear a mask

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A transatlantic flight to London returned to Miami after about an hour in the air, after a first-class passenger refused to comply with masking rules, American Airlines said. She sat behind us in first class, she was a first-class passenger and was extremely abusive to the stewards.” He added that the woman had been offered masks by cabin crew, but refused to comply with the rules and was rude to stay – something Mr Freeman said contrubited to the plane being turned around. “American Airlines flight 38 with service from Miami to London returned to MIA due to a disruptive customer refusing to comply with the federal mask requirement,” the airline said in a statement. “They had a disturbance on the plane with the female passenger refusing to wear her mask, which was enough for them to bring back the plane and call us,” Argemis Colome of the Miami-Dade Police Department told Insider.

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Forrie J Smith: Yellowstone actor ‘kicked off’ a plane after refusing to sit next to a passenger in a mask
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Forrie J Smith: Yellowstone actor ‘kicked off’ a plane after refusing to sit next to a passenger in a mask

The Independent  

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Pilots announce mask mandate has been dropped mid-flight in US, angering passengers
2 years, 11 months ago

Pilots announce mask mandate has been dropped mid-flight in US, angering passengers

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Plane passengers in the US are reporting that some pilots announced the country’s federal mask mandate …

“I felt extremely unsafe”: vulnerable passenger asks to leave flight where most others were not wearing masks
3 years ago

“I felt extremely unsafe”: vulnerable passenger asks to leave flight where most others were not wearing masks

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The anonymous passenger spoke to Stuff.co.nz, describing how she boarded her Jetstar flight from Wellington to Queenstown to find “a …

American Airlines plane is diverted after a passenger assaults a flight attendant
3 years, 4 months ago

American Airlines plane is diverted after a passenger assaults a flight attendant

NPR  

American Airlines plane is diverted after a passenger assaults a flight attendant Enlarge this image toggle caption David Zalubowski/AP David Zalubowski/AP A passenger who assaulted a flight attendant aboard an American Airlines jetliner bound from New York to California on Wednesday caused the plane to divert to Denver in what a witness suggested was an altercation over a mask requirement. …

Column: The jerk next to me on the plane wouldn’t wear a mask. Here’s why I didn’t do anything
3 years, 5 months ago

Column: The jerk next to me on the plane wouldn’t wear a mask. Here’s why I didn’t do anything

LA Times  

It really shouldn’t be so hard to follow the mask rules on a flight. A guy on a New Jersey-to-California flight — just one of many examples — was fined $42,000 in May after refusing to wear a mask, “making non-consensual physical contact with another passenger,” throwing a playing card at a passenger, making stabbing gestures toward passengers and “snorting …

Three people kicked off plane for not wearing masks — after nine-hour wait for boarding
3 years, 6 months ago

Three people kicked off plane for not wearing masks — after nine-hour wait for boarding

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Three American Airlines passengers were kicked off a flight at Miami Airport on Friday after reportedly …

Couple argue with crew before being thrown off flight after mask row
3 years, 6 months ago

Couple argue with crew before being thrown off flight after mask row

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the video, posted to Instagram, the unmasked man shouts and swears at flight staff for several minutes, lunging at …

TSA extends to January mask rule for airline passengers
3 years, 7 months ago

TSA extends to January mask rule for airline passengers

The Independent  

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Unruly skies: Union chief highlights airline passenger misconduct
3 years, 9 months ago

Unruly skies: Union chief highlights airline passenger misconduct

Al Jazeera  

There have been 2,500 incidents involving unruly airline passengers this year, says the US Federal Aviation Administration, including 1,900 cases in which passengers refused to wear face masks. A Southwest Airlines flight attendant was assaulted by a passenger and lost two teeth in an attack in the United States last weekend, according to a union president, who complained to the …

Ruckus in the skies: What happens when airline passengers refuse to wear masks
3 years, 10 months ago

Ruckus in the skies: What happens when airline passengers refuse to wear masks

LA Times  

Under the the Federal Aviation Administration’s recent zero-tolerance order, unruly airline passengers face criminal prosecution or fines of up to $35,000. A passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight about to take off from Chicago to Sacramento also refused to wear a mask, called two flight attendants who ordered him off the plane “pathetic” and hit one of the crew members …

Entire flight deplaned over ‘maskless toddler’
3 years, 11 months ago

Entire flight deplaned over ‘maskless toddler’

The Independent  

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Woman Kicked Out of Flight for Being Drunk and Refusing to Wear Face Mask
3 years, 11 months ago

Woman Kicked Out of Flight for Being Drunk and Refusing to Wear Face Mask

News 18  

Health organisations across the world have been advocating the use of face masks as a major preventive measure against the novel coronavirus. In a recent incident, a 34-year-old woman was asked to get off a plane bound for Ibiza after she refused to wear the face mask and abused the authorities. According to a report published in The Daily Mail, …

Brawl breaks out at Florida airport after passengers refuse to wear masks
4 years ago

Brawl breaks out at Florida airport after passengers refuse to wear masks

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Captured on camera at the American Airlines terminal, the fight was between three women, who can be seen smacking and …

For flight attendants, getting people to wear masks is now one of the hardest parts of the job
4 years, 2 months ago

For flight attendants, getting people to wear masks is now one of the hardest parts of the job

CNN  

CNN — Masks have become a matter of course on airplane flights, and unfortunately, so have ugly confrontations about wearing them. “Enforcing mass compliance has been one of the most difficult parts of our job,” says Allie Malis, a flight attendant for American Airlines and a government affairs representative for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. “We’re considered essential workers, …

Woman calls airline worker ‘a**hole’ and is kicked off plane after refusing to wear a mask
4 years, 3 months ago

Woman calls airline worker ‘a**hole’ and is kicked off plane after refusing to wear a mask

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A woman was kicked off a flight in the US after refusing to wear a mask …

American Airlines passenger met by police after complaining that cabin crew hadn’t worn masks
4 years, 3 months ago

American Airlines passenger met by police after complaining that cabin crew hadn’t worn masks

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An American Airlines passenger claims he was met off a flight by police and questioned after …

Passengers forced to deplane Southwest Airlines flight after woman refuses to wear mask
4 years, 4 months ago

Passengers forced to deplane Southwest Airlines flight after woman refuses to wear mask

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Shortly after pushing back from the gate, Flight 2388 from Nashville to Las Vegas returned after a customer refused to …

YouTuber kicked off American Airlines flight after hiding in friend’s business class footwell
4 years, 4 months ago

YouTuber kicked off American Airlines flight after hiding in friend’s business class footwell

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two women were kicked off an American Airlines flight after one of them attempted to hide …

Woman kicked off plane after hitting flight attendant in the face
4 years, 5 months ago

Woman kicked off plane after hitting flight attendant in the face

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. BBC journalist Suzanne Kianpour, who was also on the flight, reposted a video of the altercation and said: “A passenger …

Woman forced to wear ‘dirty’, used mask on Ryanair flight
4 years, 5 months ago

Woman forced to wear ‘dirty’, used mask on Ryanair flight

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Ryanair passenger claims the airline made her wear a “dirty”, used mask on a recent …

Trump supporter kicked off Southwest Airlines flight after ‘repeatedly’ lowering his mask
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump supporter kicked off Southwest Airlines flight after ‘repeatedly’ lowering his mask

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Trump supporter was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after he “repeatedly” lowered his mask, …

Mother who was kicked off a flight because her toddler wouldn’t wear a mask wants airlines to change their policies
4 years, 5 months ago

Mother who was kicked off a flight because her toddler wouldn’t wear a mask wants airlines to change their policies

CNN  

CNN — Rachel Starr Davis, a single mother of a 2-year-old, is urging the airline industry to revise their face mask policies after she was kicked off a flight because her son refused to wear a face covering. Despite her repeated efforts to get her son to wear a face mask, Davis said, he wouldn’t keep it on his face. …

Mother kicked off flight after her two-year-old son refuses to wear mask
4 years, 6 months ago

Mother kicked off flight after her two-year-old son refuses to wear mask

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A mother was left “bawling her eyes out and hyperventilating” after she and her two-year-old son …

‘Disruptive’ passenger kicked off plane after demanding flight attendant wear a mask
4 years, 6 months ago

‘Disruptive’ passenger kicked off plane after demanding flight attendant wear a mask

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A fellow traveller named Patrick tweeted about the incident, writing: “This elderly man was thrown off @allegiant airline this morning …

Passenger leaves note calling flight attendant a ‘Nazi’ and ‘glorified maid’ after being asked to wear mask
4 years, 6 months ago

Passenger leaves note calling flight attendant a ‘Nazi’ and ‘glorified maid’ after being asked to wear mask

The Independent  

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Young children pose a dilemma for airlines with mask rules
4 years, 7 months ago

Young children pose a dilemma for airlines with mask rules

Associated Press  

DALLAS — Two recent incidents involving young children who refused to wear face masks show how airlines are struggling to balance safety with compassionate treatment of all their customers during a pandemic. Last week, a Texas woman said Southwest Airlines booted her family off a plane after one of the children, a 3-year-old with autism, refused to wear a mask. …

Woman accuses American Airlines of racism after being kicked off flight for wearing ‘offensive’ face mask
4 years, 7 months ago

Woman accuses American Airlines of racism after being kicked off flight for wearing ‘offensive’ face mask

The Independent  

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American Airlines bans man who refused to wear face mask
4 years, 9 months ago

American Airlines bans man who refused to wear face mask

Associated Press  

DALLAS — American Airlines has banned a man who was kicked off a plane for refusing to wear a face covering, among the first such incidents since airlines promised this week to step up enforcement of their mask rules. According to the airline, conservative activist Brandon Straka ignored requests by crew members to wear a mask while the plane with …

Trump supporter kicked off American Airlines flight for refusing to wear face mask
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump supporter kicked off American Airlines flight for refusing to wear face mask

The Independent  

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Passenger removed from American Airlines flight has been temporarily banned by the airline
4 years, 9 months ago

Passenger removed from American Airlines flight has been temporarily banned by the airline

CNN  

CNN — After becoming the first known case of someone kicked off a flight due to refusal to wear a mask Wednesday, an American Airlines passenger has now become the first to be temporarily banned by an airline. Passenger Brandon Straka was asked to get off a flight from New York to Dallas after he refused to wear a face …

Refuse to wear a face mask and these airlines may ban you from future flights
4 years, 9 months ago

Refuse to wear a face mask and these airlines may ban you from future flights

CNN  

CNN — US airline passengers who figured face mask enforcements had more bark than bite could end up getting bit. “Those who choose not to comply with this or other safety requirements risk future flight privileges with Delta, which is in keeping with the face covering enforcement policies Airlines for America recently announced,” Delta said. The airline says that “any …

Major US airlines to require passengers to wear face masks
4 years, 10 months ago

Major US airlines to require passengers to wear face masks

Associated Press  

DALLAS — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines said Thursday they will soon require passengers to cover their faces during flights, following the lead of JetBlue Airways. “What we’re hoping instead is that virtually all customers will choose for their own protection and out of respect for others on the airplane to wear a mask in flight.” The …

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