Man Who Flew From JFK To LAX With Expired Boarding Pass Pleads Not GuiltyMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:14PMPaying through the nose for airline tickets is for suckers. According to prosecutors, savvy travelers like Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, know that all you need to get from one side of the country to the other is an expired boarding pass . At least, it worked the first time when Noibi allegedly waltzed through security at JFK and managed to talk his way onto a flight to LAX —in a premium seat, no ...
Magna Bank Buys Duntreath Land on WinchesterFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:15PMMagna Bank has bought for $1.3 million 31.1 acres on Winchester Road in Germantown from Duntreath Partners in lieu of foreclosure. Memphis real estate...
Delta Cuts Service to Tupelo, 23 Other Small MarketsFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:15PMDelta Air Lines Inc. has told the U.S. Department of Transportation it intends to stop flying in 24 smaller markets including Tupelo, Miss. Tupelo is ...
Get a Better Seat on the Plane by Avoiding Airlines That Offer Elite Travel Status [Travel]Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 8:44AM# travel Now that we're in the days of SeatGuru and everyone knows which seats are best, the airlines are trying to capitalize on that. As a perk, they tend to offer the best seats to frequent fliers who are part of their elite travelers program before offering them to everyone else. This is great if you fly the same airline all the time, but, as the New York Times points out, if you're looking ...
10 Years Later and Airport Security is Still FailingFriday, July 1, 2011 @ 2:16PMEarlier this week, Federal agents arrested a stowaway, a U.S. and Nigerian citizen , who successfully made it onto a cross-country Virgin America flight from John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport in New York to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) without having a valid ticket. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and any other contractor hired to check tickets and identification at ...
Scorpion on Alaska Airlines flight stung US passengerFriday, July 1, 2011 @ 12:33AMA scorpion reportedly went on board of an Alaska Airlines flight on Friday, June 17, 2011 and stung an American passenger, with the arachnid crawling inside on one of his sleeves. The scorpion found on an Alaska Airlines flight Image Credit: Jeff Ellis/KPTV.com According to TV station KPTV on Thursday, June 30, 2011, Jeff Ellis, [...]
Man flew with wrong ID, boarding passThursday, June 30, 2011 @ 11:53PMIt raised questions how he got through layers of security.
LAX mystery: How did man fly cross-country with bogus boarding pass?Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 11:10PMNigerian student was in possession of 10 other tickets.
Man strolls onto plane with someone else's ticketThursday, June 30, 2011 @ 11:00PMFederal authorities and Virgin America were trying to explain Thursday how Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi was able to get through layers of security — and then avoid arrest for days after officials discovered he was a stowaway.