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With JAL In Trouble, Its Laid-Off Flight Attendants Sell Their Uniforms to Sex Clubs
We’ve been pretty interested in all that has been happening with Japan Airlines, and it is unfortunate that some employees of the airline have lost their jobs over the last few months. However, those laid off have become quite the entrepreneurs, and they've have made a little extra cash selling their uniforms to workers in sex clubs.
Apparently uniforms of JAL and All Nippon Airways are in high demand, and people have been shelling out thousands of dollars to purchase them. The flight attendant fantasy seems to be quite the hit on the menu at some of the sex parlors in Japan, and this isn’t anything new as these uniforms have been appearing on the black market for some time. One club in Osaka—Air Touch—offers the full airline experience including drinks, meals, seat belts, and a little something extra during periods of turbulence.
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Flight Attendant Prostitution Ring Busted in India
If you looked at those racy pictures of British Airways flight attendants and cattily thought to yourself "wow, those girls are acting like total whores," you might have been closer to the truth than you knew. The reputation of the airlines' hostesses is set to grow even saltier, as Indian police begin to unravel a $10 million high-end prostitution racket that employed as many as 200 local students and flight attendants.
The only thing that could improve this story, which comes to us via our good friend Neal Ungerleider at True/Slant, is if the pimp was a self-styled "Hindu God-Man" with over 100,000 followers, deep connections to leading Indian politicians, and an underground labyrinth brimming with drugs and porn. And wouldn't you know it, that turns out to be exactly true.
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This Week in Naughty Flight Attendants: Fight Breaks Out on Flight
There was a ton of bad weather invading the Northeast late last week, which caused plenty of delays and cancellations, but the weather had nothing to do with a canceled flight scheduled from Rochester, New York to Atlanta. Apparently two flight attendants were fighting aboard a Delta Connection flight operated Pinnacle Airlines, and the scuffle was enough for the pilot to call the whole trip off. No word on if this had anything to do with the current season of The Bachelor—this season’s hunk is a pilot for another regional airline.
The plane was still on the ground—thankfully—but this whole situation still sounds like a disaster. Some passengers reported that the two flight attendants were actually engaged in a fist fight, but other reports indicated that there was no physical contact. We’re sure that Delta is pretty pissed in having to deal with this situation, even though Pinnacle Airlines was in charge of the flight. Delta’s name is on the outside of the airplane, so it’s still their problem, and they'll probably be sending the flight attendants into the corner for a timeout.
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Air Marshals Do More Than Just Chat Up Celebrities
We knew Kim Kardashian was a trendsetter—or at least plays one on television—but apparently her sense of style has taken to the skies. After she had a little in-flight meet up with an air marshal it seems that now everyone wants to get in on the fun of hanging out with a federal official. Unfortunately for one gentleman, his visit wasn’t a good one.
A couple weeks ago a dude from Alabama was headed to Houston aboard a Continental Airlines flight from Amsterdam, but things didn’t go as well as he probably planned. Apparently this guy was bothering a female passenger in an inappropriate manner, and the flight attendants had an air marshal switch seats with him in attempts to get a handle on the situation. Well that didn’t go so well since the troublemaker hit the air marshal a couple times, but the air marshal got things under control and probably administered an in-flight beat down.
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Kim Kardashian Outs an Air Marshal Via Twitter Using In-Flight WiFi
Kim Kardashian was in New York this this week for the premiere of her clothing collection for Bebe, but what's making more news than that is her return flight to Los Angeles. Kim, utilizing the in-flight WiFi on her airplane—we're guessing an American flight because we've seen her travel with them on Keeping Up With the Kardashians—tweeted that she was sitting next to an air marshal named Jim.
It went a little something like this:
I'm on the airplane...love wifi! I am sitting next to an Air Marshall! Jim the air marshall makes me feel safe!
Immediately her fans began wagging their fingers at her thoughtlessness, since air marshals are supposed to blend in with the regular passengers and not be pointed out, for the security of all on the plane. So while still in the skies, Kim tried to cover her (very famous) ass:
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The Top Five Worst Places To Spend Valentine's Day
It’s not too tricky to find a good spot to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Just mix together warmth, sand and sun and typically you’ll be good to go—we’ve even found a few for you. And there’s still plenty of ways to mess things up, a few of which might be taking your sweetheart some of our suggestions below, as these are the worst events and locations to celebrate Valentine’s Day in 2010.
· Roses At The Rodeo In Texas
If you don’t want to celebrate Valentine’s Day with the same person in 2011, then taking him or her to the rodeo for some animal cruelty and men in tight jeans is a great idea. Champion bull rider Tuff Hedeman—apparently he’s a big deal—will be attending the February event at the Bee County Exposition Center. Tickets are just $10 in advance, and the first 100 ladies in attendance will be given a flower. If this was on your radar as a possibility you might as well leave the car running for a quick escape.
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The Ryanair Pay-to-Pee Scheme Is Totally Happening
We are due to fly the on low-cost, much-hated European carrier Ryanair in just over 48 hours, and already we're freaking out about if our carry-on bags are small enough to avoid extra fees. But now we're worried about even more than that! Ryanair has reaffirmed their commitment to making the dreaded in-flight "Pee Fee" happen.
At first, the announcement of charging 1 Euro per airplane bathroom visit was a publicity stunt, but when Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary gets a money-making scheme in his head...you know it's not a joke. Ryanair is reportedly looking to install pay toilets on flights under one hour, which would affect most UK-Ireland routes and the occasional other European short hop. Luckily our flight comes in at just over an hour, so we'd not have to deal with keeping a Euro coin handy just in case, but still.
It gets worse, after the jump.
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Cruise Ships Continue To Party 60 Miles Away From Haiti Mass Graves
It's probably that by now, in addition to all of the coverage of the horrible earthquake and its aftermath in Haiti, that you've also heard about how cruise ships are continuing to stop at their "private" beaches in Haiti, effectively swatting aside human suffering and need for the power of the almighty dollar and a shipload of vacationers demanding the destinations promised.
Years ago, we were on one of the ships that stops in Haiti and yet our boat suddenly skipped it on account of "political instabliity." We didn't get to party on the beach in Labadee, but we did have an extra day at sea. Why couldn't the cruise line do that in this case, with more than just political instability at hand, but an estimated 200,000 deaths and widespread human crisis?
Excuses, excuses...after the jump!
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GasCase Luggage Is a Hip Traveler's Worst Security Nightmare
Via If Its Hip Its Here, we discover German company Ivorilla's new line of metal gas can luggage. The GasCases come in two designs with the "diesel" version opening from the side and the "fuel" version opening from the top. The product page, when run through the magic of Google Translate, seems to indicate that the luggage line is targeted toward hipper-than-thou DJs, who can use them to pack around 50 vinyls.
Very clever. We'd even go so far as to say "neat." And for a certain niche customer who knows never to wheel these things into an airport, a nice little personal statement. But we're afraid that there are a few hipsters out there who might be tempted to take their free-stylin' ways into a civilian aviation center, and that's when things will inevitably go awry. Try to stand in line in an airport with a GasCase, and we anticipate things will go one of two ways...
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Delta Flight Lands On Atlanta Taxiway, Narrowly Avoids Disaster
You know what? Landing your airplane on an airport taxiway is not a good idea, even if you have a "medical emergency" onboard. This is exactly what happened at the consistently busy Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Monday, when a Delta flight inbound from Rio de Janeiro phoned in their emergency and then landed on the wrong stretch of tarmac.
Luckily for this plane and all the passengers on it, there were no other airplanes waiting on the taxiway to cause a collision, although there easily could have been what with Atlanta's congestion. The Delta flight should have landed on the runway, which is larger and longer and labelled as a runway, that sits parallel to the taxiway. Both the pilot and co-pilot have been relieved from flying while the investigation is pending; it's still not known what the medical emergency was. The FAA is concerned, and a spokewoman noted that "it was 'very, very rare' for a plane to land on a taxiway rather than the runway. 'None of us here, anecdotally, can remember this happening.'" Hopefully it won't happen again either.
Related Stories:
· Delta Flight Lands On Taxiway Instead Of Runway [AJC]
· Delta coverage [Jaunted]
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ANA Politely Requests You Pee Somewhere That's Not On Their Airplane
Among the many, many problems that arise out of Ryanair's ongoing success—they're up another 17% by the way—is that people start to think like Ryanair executives. Japanese airline ANA, perhaps inspired by the "we'll charge you for the bathroom" shenanigans of Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary, has taken to trying to regulate the urination of its passengers by urging them to pee before they board. This can't be for real, right?
Sounds like it is, though:
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Is Butt Comfort A Priority On Long Flights? The 'Skwoosh' Can Help
Do you have trouble "sitting down?" Does the thought of "bending your knees" or "getting in a chair" make you cringe? If so, then retailer TravelSmith might have the perfect travel gear accessory for you. The SKWOOSH Traveler Seat Pad is a brand new product that helps you accomplish, in the context of modern airports and airplanes, what humans have been doing unaided for the better part of 10,000 years.
In the category of "most offensive comfort travel gear," this nonsense isn't even close. And yet—and yet...
Travelers regularly spend hundreds of dollars to reduce their carry-on weight by mere ounces. There's an entire market in multitasking travel devices designed specifically for that purpose, and it moves billions of dollars per year. Meanwhile other people are carrying around portable seats to cover the chairs they're already sitting on? That seems unnecessary.
