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Students who once had to travel out of state to catch a Southwest Airlines flight are in luck—the airline announced last Thursday that it would begin flying out of Boston Logan International Airport this fall. Currently, students who fly Southwest must travel to either Manchester, N.H. or Providence, R.I. for service. “I’m really happy to go from Logan directly rather than going up to Manchester,” said Samuel B. Novey ’11. “It will be a lot easier to go home...
...miss the nineties. Back then, besides having boy bands and great television shows, traveling by plane was almost a pleasant experience. I could carry-on more than just the clothes on my back, a laptop, and a book. Food and non-alcoholic beverages were both free. Go on a flight nowadays, and you find yourself thirsty, hungry, and possibly bereft of clothes when the airline loses your checked baggage...
...financial woes of airlines are particularly noticeable during emergency situations, when any lack of resources becomes obvious. On February 15, 2007, passengers on JetBlue’s Flight 751 to Cancun, Mexico were trapped on the runway for eight hours when a snowstorm delayed their flight. The logical conclusion in most weather-related delays is to have passengers sit in the terminal until the plane is ready to take off; although not an ideal situation, it is still preferable to being trapped in a stuffy airplane. In the case of Flight 751, however, passengers remained stranded on the runway...
...ample space for their aircraft—including extra aircraft for emergencies. When airlines face so much financial strain that even water costs money, it’s clear that airlines do not have the means to pay airports for as many gates as are necessary to accommodate delayed flights. Disasters like JetBlue Flight 751 are the result...
Hong Kong International Airport • really quite spectacular tantrum is thrown at by woman who missed her flight to San Francisco...