A pet peeve for many A major US airline has implemented a total ban on “barebeating”, a travel habit that has become a nuisance for many. On a flight, disruption is sometimes caused by a passenger who is listening to their music out loud, without headphones, otherwise known as “barebeaters”. You’ll no longer face this […]

2 weeks ago

The flight was nearing Iceland when it was forced to divert to Dublin. A flight headed to the US was forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin Airport on Tuesday after pilots detected a technical glitch with the aircraft. United Airlines flight UA119 left Edinburgh at around 11:45am yesterday bound for Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Just over […]

1 year ago

The service will operate from next year. United Airlines has announced a new daily non-stop service between Dublin and San Francisco. The airline will operate its new route with a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner from June 6, 2020. The new daily service will depart Dublin at 11.50am and will arrive in San Francisco at 2.20pm. The […]

6 years ago

The incident happened on Monday.

8 years ago

This must have been pretty scary for the people on board. On Monday evening, United Airlines flight UA1175 departed San Francisco heading towards Honolulu. Everything was business as usual, until about 40 minutes before landing, when passengers on board claimed that one of the engines ‘exploded’, with debris flying off and the wing casing disappearing, […]

8 years ago

Pardon the pun, but it’s been quite a turbulent month for United Airlines. United Airlines has announced a series of changes to its customer service policy following a whirlwind of negative publicity in the wake of the forcible removal of a passenger, David Dao, from a United Airlines plane earlier this month. Dao, 69, has […]

9 years ago