Final Call: Air Marshals Gone Wild, Clever Ways to Avoid Baggage Fees
Tags: baggage fees, Boeing, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, British Airways, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA), Federal Air Marshal, Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), helicopter crashes, SAS, terrorism
• The previously unidentifiable British airline pilot who filed a lawsuit after he was fired for his terrorist connections can now be identified: 39-year-old Samir Jamaluddin was a senior first officer on British Airways 747s. [Daily Mail]
• Here are some interesting methods fliers are employing to avoid baggage fees. [NY Times]
• The cities are 120 miles apart, but could Chattanooga become Atlanta’s second airport? [News Channel 9]
• Paging Walter White: Some Indonesian airline pilots are smoking crystal meth. [Sydney Morning Herald]
• Over 6,000 people showed up at Frankfurt am Main Airport to protest the proposed construction of a new runway. [Flickr]
• Two award-winning National Geographic photographers were killed in a helicopter crash in Australia. [Associated Press, via Washington Times]
• How the 787′s early production problems drew Boeing‘s airliner and fighter jet engineers together. [STL Today]
• Norway’s Crown Prince and Crown Princess were among those evacuated from an SAS flight when smoke filled the cabin while on the ground in Copenhagen. [Associated Press, via Washington Post]
