Apr 21st, 2011 at 4:00PM: Boston's Logan Airport is one of 10 across the country to host flight attendant protests today. The American Airlines employees are pissed about compensation paid to the company's executives.
Here's the deal: flight attendants have had to stomach pay cuts, while executives have picked up a cool $100 million over the past six years. The flight attendants gave up $340 million a year in 2003.
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American Airlines flight attendants to protest company success
Apr 21st, 2011 at 4:00PM: Boston's Logan Airport is one of 10 across the country to host flight attendant protests today. The American Airlines employees are pissed about compensation paid to the company's executives.
Here's the deal: flight attendants have had to stomach pay cuts, while executives have picked up a cool $100 million over the past six years. The flight attendants gave up $340 million a year in 2003.
I ...Wi-Fi usage at Boston's Logan Airport jumps 412% after going free
Feb 8th, 2011 at 12:45PM: If there ever was an arguement for the positive effects of free airport Wi-Fi, this is it. The Massachusetts Port Authority Board says the number of passengers using its free wireless service to access the Internet at Boston's Logan International Airport jumped by 412% last year. More than 1.4 million sessions were logged on its Wi-Fi network in 2010, compared with just over 349,300 in 2009.
...Mystery bag gets passenger yanked from Boston flight
Jan 4th, 2011 at 9:00AM: Was Ognjen Milatovic a nutty professor? Only time – and the legal process – will tell. The University of North Florida professor of mathematics and statistics put a carry-on in the overhead bin ... and his fellow passengers said it was making strange noises. Then, he wouldn't get off his phone and take his seat when told to do so by the crew.
So, he was turned over to the ...White Collar Travel: The upgrade rotation
Mar 11th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Routine often breeds insight, and the form of business travel that once ruled my life was one of the variety that Ralph Waldo Emerson would have called "the hobgoblin of little minds." During one project, which involved seven months of weekly roundtrips to Omaha (and platinum status on Northwest by June), I'd get to Logan Airport every Monday morning and see the same names called for upgrades. It ...Airline fee backfires: skycaps win in Massachusetts court
Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:00AM: When American Airlines started to charge a $2 fee for curbside baggage check-in, the skycaps lost their tips. Passengers were accustomed to paying $2 or so, it seems, and weren't going to amp up the cash flow just because the money was going into a different pocket. So, nine Logan Airport skycaps – current and former – just came into $325,000, thanks to the Massachusetts Supreme ...Layover: Boston
Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:30AM: Beantown! As one of the most historic cities in the U.S., there's plenty to look forward to should you have some time during a layover at the Boston Logan International airport or close by. Boston's public transportation system, the "T" for short, reaches Logan on the Blue (Wonderland) line, and is also just 20 minutes from downtown (via the Sumner Tunnel) by car. Try some of these layover ...Angry rush to cockpit forces Delta flight to land in Boston, not Tel Aviv
Apr 25th, 2009 at 1:00PM: When a Delta Airlines flight left New York for Tel Aviv, the passengers didn't think they'd be stopping in Boston. After all, though it's on the way, it's a bit close to warrant needing to stretch your legs. An angry passenger rushing the cockpit, though, tends to make an emergency landing prudent.
Late last night, Delta Flight 86 boasted 206 passengers – 205 of which were perfectly ...TSA workers at Logan Airport treated for scabies
Mar 29th, 2009 at 7:15PM: I feel for those three TSA workers who were found to have scabies. I just read about them in this article at WBZ. Each of them worked during the same shift at the same check point at Logan Airport in Boston.
It is not clear how they got scabies. TSA officials have said that because the TSA workers wear gloves, the public has nothing to worry about. The workers are on medical leave until they have ...March "lion" slams east coast
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 5:30PM: From New Hampshire to the Carolinas, March came in, as the saying goes, like a lion. Snow, sleet and wind gusts reaching 30 mph have lead to for motor vehicle deaths, school closings and chaos at airports.
More than 900 flights have been canceled at New York area airports (JFK, Newark and LaGuardia). Hundreds more at Logan International Airport in Boston never left the ground, where the airport ...Runaway dog runs away on airport runway
Oct 28th, 2008 at 9:00AM: I've had flights delayed by weather. I've had flights delayed by mechanical issues. I've had flights delayed because the hitch connecting the tow vehicle to my plane snapped! But I've never had a flight delayed because a runaway dog was loose on the tarmac. Well, that's exactly what happened at Boston's Logan Airport this past weekend. It seems that Choochy the poodle (like Joe the Plumber but ...
