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For most people, the airport experience is a necessary, if dreaded, part of travel. But with travel impossible for many in Taiwan, the Taipei Songshan Airport found 7000 people willing to endure the indignities of airport security without taking any trips. The airport chose 60 via lottery and invited…

Caroline Hacker used social media to urge people not to park at the airport when she returned from her family vacation. Why? There were so many ants in the car that her eleven month-old daughter had ants crawling on her during the trip home. Airport officials offered to pay the cost of cleaning, and…

German police retrieved a $340,000 painting that was accidentally left behind by a businessman flying to Israel. Authorities said the man notified them after arriving in Tel Aviv when he discovered the painting by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy had been left in Dusseldorf. The man was so distraught that…

Transportation Safety Authority officials said the amount of money left behind by travelers as they hurry through screening checkpoints continues to add up. In 2018, the dimes, quarters, nickels and pennies totaled almost one million dollars. The unclaimed money is currently deposited into a special…

Qantas Airlines announced that a seven-hour scenic flight which will take off and land at the same airport sold out in ten minutes. The unusual flight departed Sydney, made no stops, and promised views over Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef before returning to Sydney. Buyers quickly grabbed the 134 available…

A winter storm that stranded a group of soldiers became an opportunity for an Oklahoma community to show kindness. Hundreds of soldiers returning from holiday break were stuck at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City because the road to their base in Lawton, 80 miles away, was impassible. When…

Bill Patrick Sr. and Bill Patrick Jr., a father and son who had not seen each other in almost 48 years had a reunion at a Pennsylvania Airport after the younger man’s aunt helped them find each other. Bill Jr. said, his mother left his father in Spring 1973 and all he knew about his father was the information…

An Arizona police officer went beyond the call of duty to help an elderly woman who had been scammed and abandoned in the Phoenix area. Officer Adam Walicke met the woman at a department store where she had been sitting for almost a full day. She told Walicke that she had spent the last of her money…

July 24, 2010 in Spearfish, South Dakota a small engine plane crashed and killed one person. The pilot and his wife were flying into the small airport from Montana. Upon his approach to the airport, he reported by radio that everything seemed to be normal until he began to make his final descent to enter…

On her way to pick up her husband at the airport, Connie Monsees checked Goggle Maps to see if there was an alternative, faster route. The app suggested she take the next exit and she would cut the time in half. She did, as did another 100 or so drivers. When she noticed that the route was on a dirt…

Have you ever been on a journey, with someone else at the wheel, where you thought you were going someplace, only to end up in a completely different location? Happened not so long ago to the passengers on a British Airways flight out of London City Airport. They thought they were on a flight to Dusseldorf…

Skirmantas Strimaitis was ticketed to fly from Vilnius, Lithuania to Bergamo, Italy for a ski outing. When he arrived at the airport he learned he was the only passenger on the 188-seat airplane. The plane’s crew outnumbered him seven to one; nevertheless, he made the two-hour-plus flight as the only…

I am not sure how it all began, but in recent years there has been a sharp rise in the use of “Emotional Support Animals.” Individuals suffering from all kinds of emotional and psychological ailments, find comfort and relief from stress and anxiety in owning companionship animals of various kinds. It…

Airport administration officials in Moscow say an intoxicated, forty year old man drove his car into the airport terminal departure gate. Video footage shows the car drive past a check-in desk and into a departure gate before going back outside to a railway terminal. As you might expect, authorities…

If travelers at the airport in Stuttgart, Germany feel a little nervous before a flight, all they have to do is step into a booth and listen to prayer. The prayer booth located in Terminal 3 features 300 prayers from various religious backgrounds offered in 65 languages, including a Jewish prayer and…

Matt Cobrink is 53-years-old and lives with his 88-year-old father Malcolm in Los Angeles. Matt recently flew to New York to meet Aaron Judge, his favorite baseball player Because of the trip, however, Cobrink had to be away from his father for almost week, something which had not happened for over 25…

Arkansas police said an 18-year-old man tried to steal a commercial jet so he could fly to a concert in another state. Authorities responded to reports of a man jumping an airport fence and found Zemarcuis Scott in an Envoy Air jet. They said Scott told them he wanted to go to the concert and thought…

The motion picture, “Sully,” retells the story of the pilot, who landed US Airways 1549 on the Hudson River after striking a flock of geese and losing both engines. The movie centered on the NTSB interviews and hearings Sully had to attend in the aftermath of the event. His interviews focused on the…

Pope Francis sets a spiritual example for millions of people, but on a trip to Peru he suffered what many other people experience every day, a flat tire. While being driven into Lima from the airport, one of the tires of the car that was taking the Pope into the city began losing air. The motorcade came…

Alexander Cirk ended up in a Chinese hospital after spending ten days in an airport waiting for a woman he met on the Internet. Cirk came to the airport hoping to meet a 26-year-old named Zhang. After waiting eight days, he told a local broadcaster than he would not leave until his “girlfriend” arrived.…

Imagine going to Chicago on a business trip. You have a bunch of meetings and have plans to fly out right after your last meeting to meet your family in some great vacation spot. Your meetings run late and you know it is going to be a challenge to get to the airport and get checked in so you can make…

Neil Junglas saw a car pull up into his parking spot outside his home in England. A couple got out of the car and taking suitcases they jumped into a taxi and left. He assumed they were just trying to avoid paying for parking at the nearby airport but the move left Neil without parking at home. To get…

As the twin-engine airplane descended to the runway at Orlando Executive Airport, an 11-foot alligator attacked it. The 500-pound gator was crossing the runway at when it snapped at wing of the low-flying aircraft. The alligator died instantly after making contact with the plane’s wing. An alligator…

Guards say they accustomed to people leaving things like sunglasses or small items at airport security checkpoints, but were surprised to discover a diamond-encrusted Cartier watch left behind by a Japanese businessperson. The owner had already boarded his flight, but he sent a friend to pick it and…

A mistake by security at a local airport helped a Utah principal land an appearance by an NFL star. Ilene Strong and Kyle Van Noy, and former BYU football player and now Detroit Lions linebacker, accidentally picked up the other’s laptops from security bin while going through airport security. Van Noy…