Famous Twitter user Ashton Kutcher is extremely upset at the Village Voice. The paper wrote a cover story making fun of him and bashing his anti-sex trafficking efforts. Now he will make sure no company advertises in the paper or on its site, ever.
In 2003, Monserrate Luna boarded a flight in NYC headed to San Juan, Puerto Rico. When she bit into her chicken meal, she says, there was a lizard in it. She sued. We got a copy of her insanity-inducing deposition.
You know when you get a seat on an airplane that's closer to the door and it's awesome when you're deboarding? American Airlines has now named those seats "Express Seats" and will charge you more money for them. Happy flying.
American Airlines plans to start charging $8 for a pillow and blanket on all domestic flights and some international trips, beginning May 1. [AP]
The TSA's looking not-so-great these days, seeing as how their uber-reactionary measures to security breaches could technically be classified as some "PT Barnum-level shit." So how do you think they react when bloggers leak their directives? Subpoenas and door-busting, naturally.
• The unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since 1983, after a total of 663,000 jobs were eliminated. [NYP, BN]
• At the G-20 summit in London. world leaders agreed to pump $1 trillion into the world economy to help bail out developing countries. [NYT]
• Bank of America chief Ken Lewis says it…
Unfortunate news for frequent flyers who also happen to be sexual compulsives: Both American Airlines and Delta now say they will block access to porn sites on their in-flight WiFi networks. [Mirror]
I like to think I'm resistant to neophilia, the fetishistic embrace of new technology endemic to Silicon Valley. And yet I felt a rush when I logged on to Gogo's inflight Wi-Fi service on the American Airlines flight I'm currently taking from San Francisco to New York. The airliner's cabin has long been the last…
American Airlines has debuted in-flight Wi-Fi from Aircell, giving more aspiring business-class passengers the chance to look busy on their laptops. The service bans Skype and other VOIP phone services. The only people really complaining that you can't make Internet phone calls are tech-blog commenters — exactly the…
VOIP enthusiast and marketing guy Andy Abramson tricked his way around the content filters on American Airlines' new inflight broadband. Abramson succeeded in conducting a long voice call to a friend on an American flight by using Phweet, which embeds the call as an audio stream inside a Flash player inside your…
American Airlines begins its full in-flight broadband service today. CrunchGear writer Peter Ha is on a flight from JFK to LAX and promises to file a report from his seat at 9 A.M. Pacific today. For now, American offers the service on three New York-based routes, including flights between JFK and SFO. [UPDATE: Ha's …
Today's a special day for American Airlines frequent fliers! Customers aboard two AA flights from New York to LA will get to test out the airline's new in-flight Internet WiFi, which will be officially introduced (at $12.95 a pop) in a few weeks. Thought the drunk guy next to you was annoying? Now the other guy on the …
The first words spoken on "The Path to 9/11" are at check-in at Logan Airport at 7:13 a.m. "O.K., Mr. Atta," an American Airlines agent says over the clickety-clack of computer keys. "One way, nonstop to Los Angeles, no return."
