6 SEP: Michael O’Leary is at it again. The controversial boss of Irish budget airline Ryanair is reported as saying that the airline could save money by having only one pilot per aircraft, instead of two.

He says flight attendants can be trained to take over and land planes in the event of an emergency.

Mr O’Leary told Bloomberg Business Week magazine: "Why does every plane have two pilots?
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3 SEP: Scandinavian airline SAS said yesterday it plans to host the first-ever inflight gay wedding in December, and is searching for a suitable couple to walk down the aisle of the aircraft.

31 AUG: A tourist in America has accidentally photographed a thief stealing his bag as he took pictures of his family.

When John Myers of New Jersey realised what had happened, he quickly checked the last photo he’d taken and found it showed the thief bending to pick up the bag from where Mr Myers had left it in the Wisconsin town of Madison.
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1 SEP: Adelaide travel man Brian King has found himself driving a US taxi to Canada in a desperate bid to reach a conference on time.

30 AUG: British Airways has apologised for causing "undue distress" after telling passengers aboard a flight from London to Hong Kong last week to prepare for a crash landing.

18 AUG: A man who pretended to have a fit to avoid paying his restaurant bills has been jailed for 18 months in the US.

13 AUG: A woman is suing Disney for $US30,000 claiming she suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after being groped by Donald Duck at the EPCOT Centre at Walt Disney World in Florida.

 

The 27-year-old says in court documents that the worker groped her breast when she sought to have a photograph taken with her children during a visit to the park in May 2008.
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10 AUG: Turkish Airlines has grounded 28 flight attendants for being overweight and given them six months to slim down or face reassignment.

5 AUG: Walt Disney World in Florida will open a luxury boarding kennel for dogs on 27 August.

4 AUG: Two tourists walked into a hotel in the US state of Washington on Monday to find a goat in their room.