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Qantas is the first airline to pilot a wireless inflight entertainment technology on one of its B767-300 aircraft, that has been equipped with no less than 254 iPad 2 tablets.
Passengers will have access to over 200 hours of on-demand content (video and audio). The content is not stored on the iPads themselves, but ... |
7 February 2012
09:45 GMT |
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As the tagline of one of the “Alien” movies so wonderfully put it, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The same applies if you're on an international flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo.This is the concept behind “7500,” one of the action / thriller movies scheduled for relea... |
3 February 2012
06:33 GMT |
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We've all seen – and admired – Bollywood productions for the complexity of their dance routines, but chances are not many of us caught one of them live, on board an airplane. On January 17, this is precisely what happened for passengers on board a Finnair flight from Helsinki to New Delhi.All the fli... |
28 January 2012
06:08 GMT |
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At the beginning of December, after a 30-minute flight to see the Christmas lights from up above, fashion blogger and model Lauren Scruggs walked into the spinning propeller of a plane, losing her left hand on the spot and suffering severe injuries to the head. Yesterday was the first time she was spotted out in publ... |
20 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Only a few days ago, model, fashion blogger and fashionista Lauren Scruggs was involved in an accident that could have easily cost her her life, when she walked into the spinning propeller of a plane.
She is now making amazing progress.
As the video below will confirm, all signs point to that Lauren will eventua... |
22 December 2011
06:53 GMT |
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Even paramedics didn’t expect model and fashion blogger Lauren Scruggs to survive after the terrible accident she suffered when she walked into the propeller of a plane that was still spinning. Today, reports say her recovery is doing wonderfully. Investigators are still trying to determine what happened last w... |
11 December 2011
05:53 GMT |
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The other day, Alec Baldwin was removed from an American Airlines flight after he refused to turn off his phone while the plane was still at the gate. He's now issued an apology of sorts for the incident. During and shortly after the incident, which didn't go down without Baldwin making a huge scene, he kep... |
8 December 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Alex Baldwin is famous for his bad temper and it seems to have gotten him in more trouble, depending on who's side of the story you believe. The actor was removed at LAX from an American Airlines flight after refusing to shut down his iPad at the flight attendant's request.The actor boarded an AA plane at L... |
7 December 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Until last Saturday, 23-year-old Lauren Scruggs was a young woman like any other. She had a promising career ahead and was happy to face new challenges. Today, she's fighting for her life after walking straight into the spinning propeller of a plane.
She was hit with such a force that she lost her left hand on ... |
7 December 2011
09:07 GMT |
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Singer Whitney Houston acted like a true diva on a recent flight with Delta Airlines to Detroit, refusing to fasten her seatbelt for the takeoff. She had to be threatened to be kicked off to comply, says a new report.
Various sources (on the plane, presumably) tell TMZ that Whitney threw quite a hissy fit on the ... |
14 October 2011
07:55 GMT |
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British comedian Russell Brand was supposed to be in Ontario, Canada on Saturday for a sold-out standup number, but he never made it to the show. He claimed he was barred access to the country but organizers are singing an entirely different tune. Since Brand is no stranger to trouble of this kind – i.e. being ... |
3 October 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Actress Leisha Hailey and her girlfriend were asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after reportedly kissing on board and offending the other customers. In a new statement, the star sets the record straight on the kiss that started it all. As we also informed you the other day, after being told to get off the pl... |
28 September 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Southwest Airlines is again at the center of controversy, after actress Leisha Hailey was booted off her flight for kissing her girlfriend. She’s saying she was discriminated against, the airline claims the kissing was “excessive.”Leisha, star of “The L-Word,” boarded the plane with her ... |
27 September 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, French actor Gerard Depardieu made headlines around the world for what can only be described as the most humiliating moment of his life: he was taken off a flight after urinating on the floor. Actor Edouard Baer, who was with him at the time, is offering an explanation for it. In a statement to ... |
20 August 2011
06:04 GMT |
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One man’s misfortune is another man’s reason to giggle uncontrollably. Anderson Cooper included Gerard Depardieu and his plane “mishap” on the RidicuList – and was barely able to carry the segment through from all that laughing.The Oscar-nominated actor was on a flight from Paris to Dubl... |
19 August 2011
08:14 GMT |
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On a recent flight from Paris to Dublin, legendary actor Gerard Depardieu proved he’d forgotten his manners at home when he relieved himself in the aisle of the plane after being told he had to wait for another 15 minutes before he could use the toilet. A rep for the actor was not available for comment at the t... |
18 August 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Late last week, word got out that rapper Soulja Boy was living life in style (and well beyond his means), by buying himself the perfect birthday present: a $35 million private jet in which he invested another $20 million in customization. That was a lie, his rep is now saying. Soulja Boy turns 21 this week and, accor... |
1 August 2011
04:11 GMT |
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It’s no longer a secret that rapper Soulja Boy likes to treat himself to the finest things in life, starting from his bling down to his cars and, as of late, other means of transportation. For his upcoming birthday, Soulja Boy is giving himself the best birthday present ever.
To celebrate his 21st birthday,... |
30 July 2011
06:14 GMT |
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Nadya Suleman, whose sole claim to fame is being Octomom, the woman who gave birth to healthy octuplets and has a total of 14 kids, got very testy on a flight across the US, telling actress Kristen Johnston to “get a life!,” according to reports. The two met accidentally on a plane from New York City, whe... |
11 July 2011
11:10 GMT |
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As the debate on whether TSA scanners take security measures too far continues to rage on, Tim Geoghegan and Matthew Ryan of Timnovations have come up with 4th Amendment Wear, a clothing line made with special metallic ink.
The idea behind the line, consisting of t-shirts, underwear and socks for both adults and ... |
11 December 2010
06:36 GMT |
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In February this year, actor-director Kevin Smith got into a very nasty exchange of words with Southwest Airlines after he was kicked off a flight for being too fat, as he also put it. He’s now going after Virgin Airlines after he missed his plane from New York.As is his habit, Smith took to his official blog t... |
8 December 2010
14:31 GMT |
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It could make for the script of a really good horror movie / thriller; sadly, it happened in real life. A crocodile was let loose on a plane in the Republic of Congo, and the aircraft crashed, killing 19 people. Apparently, the crocodile was in a stowaway bag, with investigators believing the passenger who got it on ... |
24 October 2010
05:26 GMT |
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The Cheeky is a website aiming to disregard norm and “challenge pointlessness.” It also offers a unique and quite hilarious way of traveling, thanks to a set of four Suitcase Stickers. Should you ever get bored of your old suitcase, you can spice things up a bit with one of the four stickers, which make i... |
12 August 2010
14:21 GMT |
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They say that the one thing that celebrities have in common is the fact that they’re all complete strangers to the meaning of the word “no.” Though at first sight, the latest incident in which comedian Dave Chappelle was involved could also be explained by the so-called diva behavior, TMZ says there... |
5 July 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, together with the families of many high-rank officials, lost their lives in a plane crash as the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing at a regional Russian airport, The Guardian informs. There were 132 passengers on the plane and none survived, as the plane caught... |
10 April 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Cases of airport staff asking passengers to cover tattoos that they find potentially offensive to other passengers are not unheard of, even though airline officials insist there’s no standing policy on body art. Still, the case of former medic with the 539 Assault Squadron Paul Fairclough, who was told to cover... |
2 March 2010
15:21 GMT |
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Software engineer Joseph Andrew Stack III, 53, crashed his plane into the side of an office building that also housed the IRS offices a few hours ago in Austin, Texas. The crash killed two people and injured 13 others, while the damage done to the building is considerable. As per the Guardian, the police are now inve... |
19 February 2010
14:31 GMT |
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In the summer of 2009, most airline companies in Canada reversed a ban prohibiting small animals from a person’s company, thus allowing people who could not live without their (small) pets travel with them wherever they went. An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and cited by... |
17 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Over the weekend, director and actor Kevin Smith, known as Silent Bob to his fans, was taken off a flight with Southwest Airlines after a flight attendant told him he was deemed by the pilot a “safety risk,” which means staff considered him too fat to fit into a single seat. Upset, Smith took to his Twitt... |
16 February 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Southwest Airlines, like many other airline companies, has what is known under the term comfort policy, which means a passenger can be taken off a plane if staff deems him or her too fat to fit into one seat. This was the case with famed movie director Kevin Smith who, according to TMZ and his own tweets, was already... |
15 February 2010
13:31 GMT |
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About £30,000 of taxpayers’ moneys will go into funding a new study of the behavior of flyers and airport staff, with anthropologist Dr. Damian O’Doherty about to embark on a year-long study. For 12 months, the anthropologist will be living at Manchester’s terminal in order to better analyze p... |
25 January 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Television personality Joan Rivers kicked off the new year with quite some inconveniences, as she was detained by airport security personnel in Costa Rica and, because of it, missed her flight back home. Not only that, but she was literally held “hostage” at the airport and had no other choice but to pay ... |
5 January 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Ivana Trump, the former wife of The Donald, as Mr. Trump is known in the media, welcomed Christmas on a less magnanimous note as she had to be escorted off a plane in Florida. As TMZ informs, Ivana was upset by the noise some children made and started cursing them, which is when flight attendants tried to calm her do... |
28 December 2009
14:41 GMT |
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The Christmases of an estimated 1 million travelers are in danger of being completely ruined if British Airways continues to refuse to negotiate with cabin crew, who are unhappy about some recent measures as regards pay and cutting down expenses by letting people go. According to the BBC, the company is trying to leg... |
16 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Flying domestically is no longer a luxury in the UK, where the constant price cuts have made this a habit more than anything else. As plane tickets continue to cheapen, environmental advisors are sounding the alarm on the need to put a green tax on all flights, and in particular on the domestic ones, so that pollutio... |
8 December 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Hollywood actress Brooke Shields and comedian James Belushi were involved in a plane crash at the end of last week, it has just emerged. The stars were flying together to attend a private function at the Hearst Castle estate. They landed safely, but the pilot forgot to secure the brakes, which made the plane slide in... |
7 October 2009
05:10 GMT |
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The Black Eyed Peas are putting themselves up for an auction that will benefit the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Australia. The bid will also offer one fan the chance to fly with the bandmembers, listen to BEP music and, at the same time, watch them set two world records, as the eBay listing informs... |
28 September 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Virgin America Airlines has joined forces with CW for a brand-new reality show that will go into production soon, with a premiere date set tentatively for 2010. The new televised series will take viewers many miles up and then to various exotic locations as they “tag along” female flight attendants, learn... |
25 September 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Pamela Anderson has been part of more than one PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) campaign, the former “Baywatch” bombshell often lending her voice, face and body to the organization for a good cause. This time, with the Cruelty Doesn’t Fly campaign, things aren’t any different... |
10 September 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Luggage mishaps are known to happen on airplanes, be it at the airport, or because of the way the packages are stored and transported. Either way, the flight company eventually owns up to them and finds some form of compensation for the respective passenger. This did not happen to Canadian singer Dave Carroll, who ha... |
24 July 2009
15:31 GMT |
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The UK is the hardest hit territory by the swine flu epidemics, which has made it clear to two of the biggest airlines that steps must be taken to prevent people with the virus from traveling to other parts of the world, or for those to enter the country. Thus, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have announced that ... |
21 July 2009
15:31 GMT |
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LL Cool J might not be the person you’d expect to be quarantined with for three whole hours but, for the passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to St. Louis, Missouri, it was a dream come true. The rapper was en route to see a ball game when the pilot was forced to do an emergency landing in Kansas City, after... |
16 July 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Whenever a celebrity gets into some sort of trouble on a plane, news of it is bound to transpire in the media. Just think the Ralph Fiennes scandal of a couple of years back or the most recent incident involving Joel Madden, who was reportedly asked to cover up his many tattoos before embarking. Now, it’s Sharo... |
8 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Several US and European airline companies have gone on board what is labeled the “fat discrimination” bandwagon, with United Airlines being the latest to adopt the so-called fat tax, which has overweight and obese passengers pay for two tickets instead of just one. According to several reports, the tax is... |
11 May 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Paramount Digital Entertainment has announced the release of Top Gun, a new game for iPhone and iPod touch. Immediately available for download from the iTunes App Store, Top Gun places players at the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, where instructors Maverick and Iceman will help them compete to become the ... |
8 May 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden was forced to cover up the many tattoos on his arms before boarding a plane in London the other day. Within hours, word of this got out in the media, and British Airways, the company with which Madden flew, issued a statement saying that the employee to enforce such a regulation woul... |
28 April 2009
08:24 GMT |
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Frequent travelers know that one of the biggest annoyances they have to face each time they land is jet lag. Until not long ago, it was believed that jet lag was nothing more than just an upsetting occurrence that no one could do anything about, other than bear with it until it went away. Since research has shown tha... |
7 April 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Having a comfortable flight can often depend on such an apparently insignificant thing as being offered the option of choosing between tens of movies, shows or music tracks. Enter in-flight entertainment systems, which offer customers a wide range of choices. They also expose the same customers to the danger of losin... |
23 March 2009
08:11 GMT |
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When one of the highest paid models of the moment, stunner Bar Refaeli, was chosen as the “IT girl” for the Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated, fans were ecstatic. However, when Sports Illustrated teamed up with Southwest Airlines and plastered Bar’s body on a plane, customers of the carrier wer... |
5 March 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Denver resident Mike Wilson was a passenger on Continental Airline’s flight 737 in route to Houston, Texas, Saturday evening. At one point, the plane skidded off the runway crashing into a ravine and immediately catching fire. Wilson escaped the flames and used his iPhone to post details and pictures as he was ... |
23 December 2008
04:40 GMT |
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