AirTran has a lot going on now with that Southwest thing and all, but it looks like they’re headed for a little bit of legal trouble. Lucky for them we think it’s slightly frivolous, but that doesn’t mean they won’t have to send out the legal team.

A couple from North Carolina just filed a lawsuit against the airline because they weren’t too happy about some of their fellow passengers—cockroaches. Apparently the little bugs made a surprise appearance on their flight to Houston, including the air vents. The passengers tried to voice their concerns to the flight attendants, but they claim that their pleas for help were ignored. ]]> kjb 2011-11-14T09:31:40-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/8/22/8043/53228

UDPATE: The judge has dismissed the suit. Take that, lawyer who sues for the sake of suing!

We thought it was pretty slick that airlines ditched cash in the cabin in favor of plastic money for in-flight purchases, but there’s at least one passenger who isn’t thrilled about the cashless cabin. Of course this person is an attorney, and that means there’s a lawsuit.

A lawyer from New Jersey recently flew from Honolulu to Newark aboard Continental Airlines, but when it was time to purchase some in-flight goodies he wasn’t about to swipe his credit card. This unhappy passenger tried to buy some headphones for the 10-hour flight—apparently the ones purchased on the way to Hawaii no longer worked—but with his credit cards in his checked luggage he was out of luck. We feel for the guy, as that is too long to go without any in-flight entertainment—but is a lawsuit really necessary?

And who puts their credit cards in their checked luggage?! ]]> kjb 2011-08-22T09:30:56-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/7/22/9234/21129

Raise your hand if the name "Kyla Ebbert" means anything to you. If this was 2007, you'd be wiggling in your seat, hand raised, saying "ooo oo" in excitement. That's because Kyla Ebbert kinda started the whole "I got harassed by an airline because of I was wearing" craze. It all started when she wore this on a Southwest Airlines flight, got a talking to about wearing skimpy clothing, and then ended up in a Playboy pictorial after the confrontation hit the media.

In the past four years we've seen cases like this pop up again, thought none have gone so far as reaching the pages of Playboy again. Until now? According to the NY Post, traveler Malinda Knowles boarded a JetBlue flight from New York to Florida on July 13 and was kicked off after "the pilot mistakenly thought she wasn't wearing pants or shorts." ]]> JetSetCD 2011-07-22T09:23:04-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/1/18/82216/3769

Even if you’re not obsessed with all things travel like we are, you’re probably somewhat familiar with Ryanair and all the fees, tricks, and traps they use to generate more revenue. Just one of the things that you need to do before heading to the airport is print out your boarding pass, because if you need to do it at the airport you’re going to be charged for it...some 40 Euros ($53) for the pleasure, actually.

Spain isn’t too cool with this fee, as a judge in the country has ruled that Ryanair can’t charge passengers who need to print their boarding pass at the airport. A Spanish lawyer brought up the lawsuit, as he himself was hit with the fee for needing to print out his boarding materials at the airport. ]]> kjb 2011-01-18T09:01:10-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/1/17/14533/5687

It turns out that if you pull off a woman's blouse in public, laugh in her face about it, and then leer at her body when she complains, that it might be something over which you can get sued. The TSA just found out as much, hammering out a settlement with Texas woman Lynsie Murley after Corpus Christi International agents humiliated her at a checkpoint. Honestly guys, this is behavior we'd usually expect from Philadelphia agents.

On one hand, this is just another TSA bad apples story, where the wrong combination of douchebags on a shift ends with an abuse of power. But on the other hand, the incident helps crystallize the single, overarching, central debate over American airline security: random screening vs. profiling. ]]> Omri 2011-01-17T15:37:50-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/12/5/20228/7135

There’s apparently a new danger up in the air, and it can strike at anytime, even when you’re safely bucked in your seat. Those doors that let you in and out when on the ground can just fly open! Sounds a little ridiculous, right? Well some United Airlines passenger—Phillip Miller—reports that back in 2005 one of the aircraft doors opened in the middle of the flight. This caused all kinds of “extreme noise” and a “pressurization danger,” and this is just enough trauma to warrant a lawsuit.

This poor passenger claims he suffered a bunch of injuries, and all of them need frequent medical attention. Somehow the specifics about the injuries were left out of the lawsuit filings, so we’re eager to see what kind of specific diagnoses we’re dealing with here. ]]> kjb 2010-12-06T14:30:49-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/7/26/8235/14806

We love airports, but we realize that they can be pretty darn noisy both inside and out. Although checking out all the different planes would be appealing, we do recognize that the airport wouldn’t be an ideal location if we owned a mega mansion. Donald Trump is facing this very problem, and that’s why he is getting all legal on Palm Beach International Airport.

The Donald feels that the airport makes too much noise, and all those pesky airplanes are causing too much of a disturbance above his home at Mar-a-Lago. The best way to deal with the situation is obviously to file a lawsuit, and that’s exactly what he’s doing. ]]> kjb 2010-07-26T10:47:26-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/