Wierd Airline News
Frontier Raises Checked Baggage fee to $100 for… Antlers?
Monday, May 26th, 2008Frontier Airlines announced this week that they will be increasing the fee for checking antlers. Antlers. Gone are the days of moving your prized trophies for a measly $75. Now, if you want to bring your antlers back home with you, it’s going to cost you a full $100.
This news has triggered a full “Whiskey […]
Welcome to the Future: Jet Packs
Thursday, May 15th, 2008There’s a thin line between courageous and crazy. Sometimes it comes down to elements outside your control as to which one you’re remembered. Take Charles Lindbergh, for instance. If he had crashed on takeoff (which he almost did), he would have been called crazy and St. Louis would have a different name for it’s airport.
Which […]
Can You Land a Dash-8?
Monday, November 19th, 2007Looks like the Dash-8 fiascos in Europe have brought out even the creative gaming programers. There is a Danish website that has created a game poking fun at the Dash-8 gear collapses. Can you land a Dash-8 with lame gear? It isn’t in english, but the controls are self-explainatory.
True to Danish humor, […]
Freedom ERJ Blows Tire in Atlanta…Continues to Dayton.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Flight 6082, a Freedom Airlines ERJ-145 was taking-off from Atlanta for Dayton when passengers and crew heard a loud bang. The aircraft had blown a tire on takeoff ATL, and the captain decided to continue to Dayton where an emergency landing was made succesfully. Passengers gave the pilot a standing ovation, after the […]
11 Year-Old Child Survives 800 Miles in 737 Wheel Well
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007I remember the good ‘ol days when I’d get angry at my parents, threaten to run away, and go hide behind the shed in the back yard. Take that parents! But an 11 year-old kid from Siberia actually followed through with his threats. Actually, he more than followed through.
Andrei Lyssov found his […]