Things are seating up. A Virgin Australia passenger, Shane Hryhorec, was recently booted from his flight all thanks to his wheelchair. The Adelaide-born flyer — who uses a wheelchair after a tragic swimming accident in 2007 left him disabled — boarded the plane with his service dog and a SmartDrive battery. This is a device … Read more
There’s a dark side to working 30,000 feet in the air. Medical emergencies, sleep deprivation and 20-minute lunch breaks are all in a day’s work for Australia’s battler cabin crew. And then there’s the blow-ups over ham-and-cheese toasties. “It’s quite an interesting moment when someone calls you a f**kwit because you don’t have any toasties … Read more
The only thing that departed was his money. A Virgin Airlines passenger allegedly found himself $800 poorer after a communications mixup resulted in him missing his original flight. “What Virgin has done to me is just so wrong,” Max Cameron, 64, told Yahoo News of the catastrophe, which occurred after he’d booked a night flight … Read more