A Ryanair flight attendant was fired because he was eating a sandwich

MADRID - recently a spanish Ryanair flight attendant has been fired because he was eating a ham sandwich that was meant for the passengers. The airline stated that the sandwich was for passengers only. Mr Montesinos should have asked before he ate the sandwich. Additionally he should have paid for the sandwich before consumed the bread…Read the article here:

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Rights air passengers up for discussion

This afternoon, the European Commission filed a proposal to amend legislation for air passenger rights. The proposal improves these rights on many essential points. However, if the plan to increase the amount of hours that entitles airline passengers to compensation is passed, it may very well create chaos within the airlines and national courts.

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Passenger duct-taped to seat after drunken kerfuffle on Icelandair flight

An incident aboard an Icelandair flight led to an intervention by passengers and flight crew last week. According to the New York Post, the 46-year-old Iceland native became rowdy during the New York-bound flight, only a few hours after departure from Reykjavík airport. 

Allegedly having drunk several bottles of hard duty-free liquor, the passenger started causing a racket. He then “became intoxicated, verbally abusive toward the flight crew as well as other passengers,” a police source stated. After spitting at other passengers, attempting to choke some, and repeatedly calling out that the plane was going to crash, the man’s fellow passengers were so fed up that they decided to take matters into their own hands.

Two Guatemalan men pinned the rowdy Icelander to his seat, at which point the Icelandair crew stepped in with duct tape and cuffs. The man was taped to his seat and gagged, and remained that way for the rest of the flight, approximately two hours. New York-resident Andy Ellwood posted a photo of the restrained passenger on his Tumblr, taken by his friend who was on the flight.

Upon arrival at JFK, the man was taken into custody by New York police officers. Although being ‘drunk and disorderly’ on board an airplane is a crime, charges were dropped.

Icelandair declined to comment on the incident.

Photo credit: Andy Ellwood

Heathrow is prepared for busiest day in its history during the Olympic Games Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2148117/Heathrow-queues-Airport-prepared-busiest-day-history-Olympics-say-bosses.html#ixzz1zZYunflA

Heathrow Airport will cope with the huge surge in passengers and baggage during the Olympics, despite concerns over queues and security, BAA has reassured the public. The airport, which will experience its busiest ever day on August 13 - the day after the Olympics closing ceremony - has pumped more than £20 million into the 2012 Games to make sure athletes and tourists can arrive and leave without a hitch.

'He said it jokingly,' Mr Clark told the Des moines Register, 'and I didn't really think much of it, personally.'

At a briefing in central London, authorities insisted people will not suffer because of problems with the UK's borders.

He added that other passengers around him laughed at the suggestion.

They also insisted security measures are proportionate, and said any risk to UK airspace can be detected within minutes.

Once seated, however, the pilot came on the loud speaker saying the crew would be taking a drug test, because of what had been said.

Nick Cole, head of Olympic and Paralympic planning at Heathrow, said that as the official host airport for the Olympics, around 80 per cent of all visitors will pass through in a 'unique operational challenge'.

August 13 will see more passengers and bags than Heathrow has ever had in a single day, he said.

The airport expects to process 137,800 people leaving on that day, and 200,000 bags instead of an average of 150,000 on a normal day.

The huge numbers have prompted fears over queuing and security, and reassurances that the airport can handle them came as Home Secretary Theresa May was forced to defend issues at the UK's borders.

Mrs May was urged by Labour to 'get a grip' on the situation, but she insisted that the Government took border security extremely seriously and was tackling the 'poor situation' left behind by Labour.

Heathrow is also recruiting 1,000 volunteers from local communities who, among other things, will wave off each flight leaving Heathrow after the Games.

Marc Owen, director of Border Force for Heathrow, told the briefing there would be hundreds of extra fully trained border staff, but he would not say exactly how many.

The airport is building a special terminal for athletes departing from the Olympics. It will be the same size as the Paralympic seven-a-side football pitch and have 31 check-in desks and seven security lanes.

When athletes leave the Olympic village, their bags will be collected the night of the closing ceremony and checked in overnight, then the next day they will travel to the Games Terminal - all part of an effort to lighten the load on the airport.

Airport bosses are making sure there are facilities to make Paralympians' arrival and departure as easy as possibly, including lifts to reunite them with wheelchairs quickly on arrival and a wheelchair repair service.

There will be extra hoists, extra toilets, stretching equipment and ramp lifting devices, all of which will remain after the Games.

Heathrow is also providing special media facilities for journalists, including 40 assistants specifically for the media.

There will be special media zones, as well as fan zones for the public, to see competitors arrive.

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