Rapper French Montana took to Instagram Wednesday to vent his frustration with Delta Airlines after YouTube sensation Adam Saleh reported acts of racial profiling during his flight to New York City. Saleh filmed himself being kicked off Delta because he was speaking in Arabic — his native language — while on the phone with his […]
If you were logged in to social media today, you likely saw that Delta Airlines and Adam Saleh were trending all day and continue to trend into the evening hours. It all started when popular YouTuber star Adam Saleh and a friend were on a Delta flight that was set to takeoff, when Saleh said […]
Delta Air Lines has revised its policy for emergency inflight medical treatment after a flight attendant prevented a Black doctor from assisting a passenger in October.
Gabrielle Union and Taraji P. Henson took to social media to respond to the viral video of a psychotic pro-Trump supporter going off on a Pennsylvania-bound Delta Airlines flight last week. In the video, an unidentified man yells “Donald Trump, baby!” before asking, “We got some Hillary bi—-s on here?” https://twitter.com/yashar/status/803256363484856320 Many were quick to […]
LONDON (AP) — Delta Air Lines canceled around 365 flights Monday after its computer systems crashed worldwide, stranding thousands of passengers on a busy travel day. That number is likely to grow. More than 1,000 flights were delayed, according to flight tracking site FlightStats Inc. About six hours into the outage, limited flights had resumed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says the government has opened a price-gouging investigation involving four airlines that allegedly raised airfares in the Northeast after an Amtrak crash in Philadelphia in May disrupted rail service. Foxx tells reporters the Transportation Department sent letters to the airlines seeking information on Friday. The four airlines are […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A brazen scheme in which guns — even an AK-47 rifle — were taken onto passenger jets for years in carry-on luggage was described by a Brooklyn prosecutor Tuesday as a terrorism threat that should cause the airline industry to end the practice of letting some workers enter airports without security […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday it won’t offer much help to frequent flyers who want to sue when airlines revoke their miles or their memberships. The justices heard the case of a Minnesota rabbi who was stripped of his top-level “platinum elite” status in Northwest’s WorldPerks program because the airline said he […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Delta Air Lines Inc. and the FBI are trying to figure out how needles got into turkey sandwiches served aboard four flights from Amsterdam. One passenger was injured. The airline said that what appear to be sewing needles were found in five sandwiches on Sunday. One passenger on a flight to Minneapolis […]
A world champion sumo wrestler was banned from a Delta airline flight this past weekend on his way to Italy because he was overweight. Manny Yarborough stands six foot seven and weighs 700 pounds but said this is the first time he has ever had a problem with flying, According to Yarborough, he purchased three […]
