7 h. ago Virgin Atlantic flight attendant 'crashed her car on way to Heathrow after downing wine'

Kathryn Scott, from Ottershaw, Surrey, had to be removed from a plane at Heathrow Airport after reporting for duty with Virgin Atlantic four times over the alcohol limit

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17 h. ago 'Plane passenger lied to flight attendant to make me switch seats but I got last laugh'

A man was left baffled when a family of plane passengers lied to a flight attendant in order to get him to switch seats with them - but he ended up getting the last laugh

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17 h. ago Air Canada flight attendants reach ‘tentative’ deal with airline to end strike

Strike over wages and ground work has cancelled travel for 500,000 people worldwideAir Canada flight attendants say they have reached a “tentative” deal with the airline to end a strike over wages and ground work that has cancelled travel for half a million people worldwide.Roughly 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job after midnight Saturday, insisting Air Canada had failed to address their demands for higher pay and compensation for unpaid ground work, including during boarding. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Moment plane passenger is detained by police to applause after row with others onboard saw flight to Alicante diverted back to the UK

The incident happened on a Jet2 flight which had taken off as normal at 6.41pm last night to fly 1,100 miles to the Spanish resort of Alicante.

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19 h. ago Flight attendant removed from plane was four times over limit, court told

Virgin Atlantic flight attendant Kathryn Scott reported for duty at London Heathrow four times over the alcohol limit, a court heard

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20 h. ago 'Drunk' Virgin flight attendant crashes car on way to airport then 'hauled off plane'

Uxbridge Magistrates' Court heard Kathryn Scott crashed her black Hyundai at a roundabout and had to be driven to work by a member of the public after leaving her car at the scene

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20 h. ago Flight attendant four times the alcohol limit removed from plane, court told

Kathryn Scott denies a single charge of performing an aviation function when over the alcohol limit.

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20 h. ago Air Canada and flight attendants’ union reach deal to end strike

The strike has impacted around 130,000 travelers daily

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20 h. ago Virgin Atlantic flight attendant 'four times alcohol limit', court told

Kathryn Scott was removed from the plane after a car crash she was involved in on the way to the airport was reported to police, the court heard

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21 h. ago Worried passenger spots DAMAGE on Ryanair plane: 'No one wanted to sit near it'

Aarron Greaves, 32, from St Helens, Merseyside, was left shaken up after spotting 'worrying' damage on his window on a Ryanair flight from Manchester to Ibiza. 

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23 h. ago Major airline to face lawsuit over selling 'windowless' window seats

A major airline is facing a class action lawsuit for advertising a window seat without a window present for plane passengers - and charging them extra for it.

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24 h. ago My husband treats me as his dirty little secret – and won’t have sex at home

He prefers to get intimate in anonymous spaces and initiates sex every time we’re at someone else’s house. I love the excitement, but feel manipulatedMy husband and I never have sex at home, only at our friends’ places or in hotel rooms. We’ve lived together, improbably, for four years now. When we hooked up six years ago I never expected anything serious, just a one-night stand with a hot flight attendant.After 15 casual sexual encounters we had a screaming row about my sleeping with someone else, and after the 16th, we decided to be in an exclusive relationship. After 40 meet-ups, he brought home an exotic strain of gonorrhoea; when we had got over the shock, and finished a course of antibiotics, we started planning the wedding.Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders.If you would like advice from Pamela on sexual matters, send us a brief description of your concerns to private.lives@theguardian.com (please don’t send at...

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25 h. ago Flight attendants always refuse one drink on planes and passengers should do the same

Airline experts have urged passengers to avoid ordering one common drink while onboard a flight as it can lead to serious illness - and what you can order instead

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32 h. ago 'Drunk' plane passenger 'VOMITS on a family and spits wine at them' on flight from Heathrow

FBI operatives arrested the woman, described as the 'ultimate passenger from hell' by other customers, on the flight's arrival in California. Fellow travellers and staff gave statements to officers.

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37 h. ago Flight attendant union leaders ‘ready to go to jail’ as Air Canada strike outlawed

Arbitrator orders 10,000 striking staff back to work after government intervenes – unconstitutionally union saysUnion leaders representing 10,000 striking flight attendants have said they would be willing to go to jail rather than comply with an order to return to work, as Canada’s federal government seeks to end a bitter contract dispute that has halted hundreds of summer flights and stranded travellers around the world.Speaking to reporters on Monday, the national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees said members would remain on the picket lines as part of a work stoppage that has halted Air Canada’s national and international operations during its busiest season. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Air Canada flight attendants’ strike ruled illegal by industrial board

Arbitrator orders 10,000 striking staff back to work after government intervenes – unconstitutionally union saysCanada’s industrial relations board has declared a strike by 10,000 flight attendants illegal and ordered them back to work as the federal government seeks to end a bitter contract dispute that has halted hundreds of summer flights and stranded travellers around the world.Flight attendants with Air Canada went on strike on Saturday after months of failed negotiations with Canada’s flagship carrier over wages. Ahead of the work stoppage, Air Canada warned that a shutdown could affect 130,000 people a day. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Air Canada flight attendants’ strike declared illegal after planes grounded for days

The 10,000 striking workers are being ordered back on the job

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40 h. ago The common plane behaviour that flight attendants secretly hate

Travel experts at Alpine Elements have revealed one common passenger behaviour in airplane lavatories that causes unnecessary confusion for both fellow travellers and cabin crew.

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41 h. ago Strike by 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants declared illegal

The Canada Industrial Relations Board has declared a strike by 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants illegal and ordered them back on the job after they ignored an earlier order to return to work and submit to arbitration

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43 h. ago 'Family told an outrageous lie to make me swap business class seat but it backfired'

Plane passenger seat disputes aren't unheard of, but when one traveller was asked to swap their business class seat for economy, they didn't move and people said they made the right decision

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