United Grounds All U.S. Flights Due to Computer Glitch
Usually flying United is a last resort; today it’s a total wash: the airline has reportedly grounded all flights across the United States because of a global computer “automation issue.”
Autistic Girl Allegedly Removed From United Flight for Acting "Fussy"
The family of a 15-year-old autistic girl is suing United Airlines after pilots made an emergency landing and kicked them off a flight in a humiliating scene last week—simply because the girl was acting “fussy,” says one witness.
Woman Files Class Action Against United Airlines for Lying About Wi-Fi
A woman has filed a $5 million class action suit against United Airlines, alleging the airline routinely and fraudulently misrepresents the capabilities of its inflight entertainment systems.
Security Expert Removed From Flight and Detained By FBI Over Tweet
A prominent computer security expert was barred from boarding one United flight, removed from another, and detained by the FBI—all apparently over a tweet pointing out how easy United’s security system would be to hack.
Alec Baldwin Swears Off Another Airline But How's He Going to Get Places
After a long weekend of promoting Acura on Instagram, Alec Baldwin was reportedly downgraded from first class to economy on his flight home. He was supposedly overheard declaring that with coach as his witness, he'd never fly Delta again, but could he running out of airlines to swear off?
Flight Attendants Fired For Refusing to Fly on Creepy "Bye Bye" Plane
A group of flight attendants say United fired them for refusing to fly on a Hong Kong-bound 747 that had the words "BYE BYE" and a frowning face mysteriously written in oil on the fuselage.
Couple Who Stole Luggage During Asiana Flight Crash Are Going to Jail
Two airport employees who used the confusion of the Asiana Airlines crash last summer as an opportunity to steal luggage from airline passengers are now headed to jail.
Quebec Radio Station Duo Successfully Prank Calls U.N. Secretary-General
A comedy duo from Montreal known as the Masked Avengers successfully pranked called U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday afternoon. Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel pretended to be Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Ban bought the act, or at least until the duo made a strange crack about…
Google Honcho's Ex-Mistress Says She Was Attacked by Flight Attendant
Has Apple's war on Google soared to 30,000 feet? Marcy Simon, erstwhile mistress of Google chairman Eric Schmidt, has taken to Twitter to report her "abuse" at the hands of a United flight attendant.
Man Arrested For Masturbating on United Flight
Last week was a rough one for United Airlines, between its Ground Zero ad controversy and an accidental reinstating of the 9/11 flight numbers. So the last thing it really needed was a sticky P.R. nightmare involving a passenger taking the old slogan "come fly the friendly skies" to disgustingly literal extremes.
Spilled Coffee Brings Down Airliner
A United Airlines pilot's coffee accident forced the emergency landing of a Boeing 777 when communications and navigation systems malfunctioned. Luckily all 241 passengers were fine, though it took them an extra day to get to Europe.
Apocalypse Commences at MGM Tower: A brave reader sends word and photographic evidence of the third — and by far the most real yet — safety crisis to grip the Century City landmark in the last week: Bees! "They have not yet shut down the building, but the front entrance is now closed due to a swarm of bees huddling…
Cruise's United Arists Cutting Deal With WGA; AMPTP Less Than Pleased With Traitorous Studio
While his lawyer was fighting "sick and twisted" baby-fabrication stories this weekend, the fledgling mogul and longtime enforcer/righthand woman Paula Wagner were busy trying to reach a side-deal with the WGA that could be announced later today, one which would allow his United Artists studio to avail itself of the…
