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Delta Drops Daily Show Amid 'Vagina Manger' Furor

Kevin Spak — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:04:16 CDT

Delta Airlines has decided to pull its ads from the Daily Show , prompting a round of gloating from the Catholic League, BuzzFeed reports. The Catholic League is still angry about a bit last month in which Stewart joked that if women wanted to get Fox News to take the "War...

Delta Buys Own Oil Refinery

Polly Davis Doig — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:36:16 CDT

Delta Air Lines is pocketing a Pennsylvania oil refinery in an industry-first move to clip its ever-burgeoning jet fuel costs, which soared to $12 billion last year. The $150 million deal—about the cost of a new jetliner, notes Reuters —is set to satisfy 80% of the airline's US fuel...

Delta Passengers Quarantined Over Bug Bites

Rob Quinn — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:29:02 CDT

Dozens of Delta passengers spent a nervous two hours quarantined on a plane in Chicago before health officials decided a passenger's mysterious rash was caused by bedbug bites, not a tropical disease. Passenger Lise Seivers noticed she had a small rash before boarding her flight in Uganda. While she didn't...

Runaway Dog Stalls NYC Flights

Rob Quinn — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:29:00 CDT

A free-spirited Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy briefly brought New York City's LaGuardia Airport to a standstill yesterday after escaping from her crate as it was being loaded onto a plane. Several flights were delayed as 14-month-old Byrdie ran loose on the runway and tarmac area before being corralled with the help...

Bird Strike Forces Emergency Landing at JFK

Rob Quinn — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:27:21 CDT

Another bird strike over New York City, but this time, the pilot didn't have to attempt to land in the Hudson River. A Delta Air Lines flight to Los Angeles made an emergency landing back at JFK airport after a bird was sucked into the engine soon after takeoff yesterday,...

Cell Phone in Bathroom Forces Emergency Landing

Rob Quinn — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:25:00 CDT

"Don't charge your phone in the bathroom's shaver socket" may become a standard airline warning after an emergency landing yesterday. A Delta Air Lines flight from Istanbul to New York City landed in Dublin after one passenger left his phone—with its charger wrapped around it—in one of the...

'Erratic' Delta Attendant Pulled From Flight

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:43:05 CDT

It seems everyone's "erratic behavior" antenna is up these days: A Delta flight attendant was pulled from a Buffalo-to-Atlanta flight after a TSA agent observed, you guessed it, erratic behavior, and was worried he wasn't fit to work the 6:15am flight. The questionable actions haven't been detailed, but a...

Think Twice Before Taking Flight 191

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:11:05 CDT

The next time you book an airline flight, if you see "191" on your ticket, you might want to just stay home. That particular flight number is "one of the most tragic of all," writes Scott McCartney in the Wall Street Journal . A brief history: JetBlue's Flight 191 was diverted...

Oops: Jet Rolls Off Taxiway During Tests

John Johnson — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:20:51 CDT

It must have been an awful feeling for the two mechanics on an otherwise empty Delta jet this morning who were running engine checks. The Boeing 737 rolled off the taxiway at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and over an embankment, sustaining "significant damage," reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Luckily, the two mechanics...