Filed under: Video Games A Yale student is suing US Airways for $1 million in compensation for his lost Xbox 360 and the emotional toll of attempting to recover it. He claims he had an Xbox 360 with a "specialized hard drive" and other fancy components worth more than $1,000 (is that the kind with t...

A Yale student is suing US Airways for $1 million in compensation for his lost Xbox 360 and the emotional toll of attempting to recover it. He claims he had an Xbox 360 with a "specialized hard drive" and other fancy components worth more than $1,000 (is that the kind with the really, really loud dr...

Downgraded: The mile-high club That’s what airlines need in order to survive the economic downturn: Hookers! “Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania say [Roger] Sedlak used a non-existent airline, dubbed CQ Air, to arrange sex-for-cash trysts in hotels across state lines.” The thing i...

  Don't worry, passengers were never in any danger on this, an Aeroflot flight. After all, it's not like they're the largest airline in Russia or anything. Translation (based on a scientific process called "bullshit detection"): Pilot: Greetings, we are currently elevated ...

Well I say liveblog, more notes that I’m making on the EEE as I fly, hence thenewer posts are at the bottom of this one. I’ll uploaded them when I get somewhere that’s not 6 miles up in the air, free Wi-fi enabled planes this 777 is not. (All times PST). 0500: The American Airlines...

Ready to pay more in airline fees, thanks to government sloth? The Economist reports on an upcoming increase in aviation fees: …if the American government’s “Aviation Passenger Security Fee”, currently at $2.50 for each leg of travel, is already annoying you, the Obama admini...

The a-la-carte airfare trend not only mucks with price transparency; it mucks with your reimbursements. One friend of mine had a hard time getting his checked-luggage fee reimbursed. A former colleague sent me a rant about a previous employer, noting that her $25 standby fee on US Airways, which she...

It its latest attempt at sabre-rattling, North Korea has threatened to shoot down a South Korean airliner during next week's exercises between ROK military forces and their American counterparts. Reuters has the warning, issued by the official Korean Central News Agency: "Security cannot be guarante...

MORE than a little wing, there. We’re at the Midway Park and Fly for an overnight check-in and Chris, a man-of-girth parking attendant, has lifted my carry-on to the shuttle. "Wha’cha’ flying?" he asks FD. "AirTran." "AirTran it is." Yes, AirTran has wooed us away from American, at least when ...

Upgraded: Weird contraband found at airports Downgraded: Pigeon welfare The NY Daily News has a set of photos of items found by customs agents at airports. Most are drug related, but my favorite has to be this image of a man with pigeons wrapped up and kept in his long underwear: “Sir, your pa...