Air Transportation

"Balloon Boy" Family Resurfaces in Florida; The Heene Boyz Being Promoted as "The World's Youngest Metal Band"

People around the world were collectively glued to their TVs on October 15, 2009, when Richard and Mayumi Heene called the Federal Aviation Administration and a Colorado TV station and reported that their son Falcon had accidentally floated 7,000 feet into the sky in a homemade experimental flying s ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Sky-High Runway: Looks Like They're Actually Going to Build This Thing

Welcome back to "Holy Crap, That's Big," our blog series in which we look at humongous things going up in South Florida and the people behind them. Let this blog post serve as official notice that we are going to spend a lot of time puzzling over this huge pile of dirt for planes to drive on that al ... More >>

Eat Up: The Top Five Airline Food Fails

​Eating a bad meal on a flight is adding insult to injury. Thanks to the post-9/11 security increases, you've already waited in a security line in your socks, slipped on urine in the restroom, and rushed across four different terminals to make it to an early flight... only to find out it had been ... More >>

JetBlue Sued After Woman Claims She Was Kicked Off Plane Unfairly

hotelscheap.org​Malinda Knowles says she was about to fly out of LaGuardia Airport last year, headed for West Palm Beach, until JetBlue employees allegedly committed what the New York Post is calling a "panty air raid."Knowles, a 27-year-old financial consultant and former model, says she was wear ... More >>

The Briny Irish Pub Holds Aviation Industry Night

Maybe you can buy her a drink this week.​If you're a pilot, flight attendant or just have a thing for little tiny liquor bottles and airplanes, come out to The Briny Irish Pub this Saturday, June 18th from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. for Aviation Industry Night. The Briny will offer $1 drafts, $3 cock ... More >>

Chef Allen's to Close After 25 Years In Business

Chef Allen to close his Aventura restaurant.​ Chef Allen Susser has announced he will close his iconic Aventura restaurant, Chef Allen's. Susser is a cooking instructor, a celebrity chef at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, a consultant to large corporations like American Airlines, S ... More >>

Five Reasons Why Kevin Simon, Alleged Belligerent JetBlue Passenger, Is No Steven Slater

Kevin Simon, former resident of Fort Lauderdale​You can take the man out of South Florida, but you can't take the South Florida out of the man. The country learned that lesson the hard way this week, when former Fort Lauderdale resident, Kevin Theodore Simon, allegedly went berserk on a JetBlue fl ... More >>

Discount Airline Selling Standing Room Only Tickets -- and It's Not Spirit?

Flickr: TGKWThe view from the cabin of a Ryanair flight.​Someone in the Miramar headquarters of Spirit has probably been told to pack their things and get the hell out, because he or she did not think of what Ryanair has thunk: We can sell tickets to people willing to stand through a flight -- and ... More >>

Lauderdale Airport's Newest Carrier Announces Special Service to Customers Who've Never Had Sex

Screen grab: PCMag.com​ Can't get laid? Well, maybe some free WiFi will cheer you up. Google is teaming up with the newest airline to serve Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport so that virgin travelers can have free internet.Oh wait, maybe that's Virgin travelers? Haha. This is just a ... More >>

Senate Race Looking More Competitive -- on One Side, Anyway

Flickr: maurice.ferreFerre​Charlie Crist continues to lead in polls, but former House Speaker Marco Rubio has all the momentum in the battle for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. During a quarter when he appeared on the cover of the National Review, dominated straw polls, and received hig ... More >>

Spirit Airlines: Your Skank in the Sky

​That's an actual advertisement from Spirit Airlines, the pride of Miramar. Clearly a shot across the bow at Virgin America, which is coming soon to the FLL.

Search for Airline More Spartan Than Spirit Ends in Ireland

Quick, someone block the New York Times website on the computer of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. The head of the Miramar-based discount carrier will be devastated if he learns that there's another airline that is more ruthless about achieving low fares (a Baldanza obsession) and more willing to ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Post-9/11 Food Conundrum

Flickr user: DOliphantThis is caviar compared to airport food.It was 6 p.m. the night before a long weekend, and so far my getaway trip was going smoothly. I'd made it through the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport security screening line with half an hour to spare before boarding time. ... More >>

More Turbulence for Lauderdale Flight School

The Federal Aviation Administration has been investigating Gulfstream International Airlines in Fort Lauderdale ever since operator error was blamed for the February 12 crash of a flight bound for Buffalo, N.Y. The regional operator has come under fire for allegedly falsifying flight logs and lettin ... More >>

Abrams: Intellect May Be 'Commercially Viable'

It's another year -- and another rambling think piece from Tribune Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams. And he seems to have reached a turning point. Abrams says truth, integrity, and intelligence ... might actually be profitable. "Junk Culture or Junk Food media does s ... More >>

Watch Out, Red Baron

The 'Pipe breaks loose

Condo Hell, Lambiet 2.0, and UA-Gate Revisited

Google Explains United Airlines Debacle

United Airlines Error Not Sun-Sentinel's Fault

A Feast Through Eastern Europe, Part 1

Booze Hound - San Juan and Halo

Last Night: Wisin Y Yandel at the American Airlines Arena

Letters for May 15-21, 2008

Butts in Seats

Mile High Michy’s

Marital Law

Does Stacy Ritter's lobbyist husband swing her vote?

When a Newspaper Shills

The Sun-Sentinel brass steps over the line on airport expansion

Bro 18F

We Are Airborne Family

Finding Gary, Part 1

After 21 years, Donna Weaver seems to finally be zeroing in on her lost husband

Ultimate Thrill

Throw Caution to the Sky

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Living in the Ice Age

Discovering Mastodon's North American metal heroics

Getting Your Phil

The Florida Philharmonic is dying right along with its fan base

Circular Logic

The people watching the airlines should have and could have taken action... but didn't

Get a Clue

Wannabe Holmeses, Spades, and Miss Marples turn Las Olas upside down

Letters for January 24, 2002

More bunny debate

Crash Landing

Delta blew it when someone phoned in a bomb threat. Then the airline tried to cover it up.

The Two-Arena Circus

Two greedy billionaires, two publicly funded arenas, two crappy teams, one burning question — why?

Letters to the Editor

Letters for October 4, 2001

1984 and Counting

Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell

Red Alert

Terrorism on the East Coast: It was predicted

A Flight of Fancy

Broward commissioners are spending big bucks on an unlikely airport-growth scheme

Undercurrents

The city is worries about the image of the groovy, cosmopolitan beach area.

Picnic Paradise -- If You Own a Boat

Boaters Park

Chute to Kill

In October a skydiver named Mike McDonald made a fatal leap. He was the third client of Skydive Palm Beach to die in a year.

With Speed (and Money) to Burn

For only $39,800 anyone can be there and here for next year's snazziest millennium bashes

The Life We're Handed

Alex Pittock didn't ask for a forklift to practically amputate his hand, he didn't ask for the money he got in a settlement, and he certainly didn't ask for his family to fall apart around him