Is a dating app for the airport a good way to pass the wanting time faster?

A delay during a trip is a very unpleasant issue. Instead of waiting for hours, until departure, there might be a alternative to make it feel like time was passing faster. You might not know, but the airport is the perfect environment to date!…Read the article here:

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Airbus 320 has close encounter with 'UFO' over Heathrow

According to 'The Telegraph', an Airbus had a close encounter with a UFO near Heathrow airport last summer. According to the captain of the flight, the UFO, shaped like a silver rugby ball, whizzed by the aircraft, just missing it by a few meters. Read more

Breaking Bad at the airport: real-life drug stories

Last week the hit show 'Breaking Bad' received yet another award for Best TV show. The popular series tells the story of a terminally ill chemistry teacher who single-handedly sets up a drug emporium. But drug dealing and trafficking isn't just a thing of fiction: Flight-Delayed.co.uk decided to find out how drugs affect air traffic. Due to security checks becoming stricter, you'd expect drug smugglers to think twice to bring drugs to an international airport, but the opposite is true... Read more >>

Joy ride on luggage belt for British bachelors

Last Friday night, three men were found diving into the storage space at Schiphol airport (and this isn't even an April Fool's joke). The Brits had come to Amsterdam with friends for a bachelor party, but their silliness (or perhaps the in-flight Heinekens?..) got the best of them. They decided to take a rest on the luggage belt, which took them right into the storage space. Read the full post here.

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