Aviation with Style

FLIGHT attendant Sara Keagle is pulling back the hatch on the grossest behaviors of passengers aboard commercial flights. From leaving behind adult diapers, to letting breast milk leak down from over-head bins and using ped eggs to file down foot calluses - Keagle revealed that working at 30,000 feet isn't nearly as glamorous as it seems. Keagle, who has two decades of experience in the air, reached out to her vast network of fellow flight attendants to find the most disgusting stories of bad in-flight etiquette. Keagle writes the blog the Flying Pinto and revealed the nasty passenger behavior in the Huffington Post. One flight attendant recalled a flight in which a woman boarded the plane and the promptly pulled out both of her breasts and began pumping her breasts into a bottle. The woman proceeded to pump her breasts with both of them exposed during board, taxi, take off and the cruise - on a full flight. On another flight, passengers called over the attendant to...

Evanston woman forced off her JetBlue flight after having words with flight attendant over carry-on bag Barbara Brotine bought her small Samsonite suitcase in December for flights like the one she took on JetBlue last Sunday. The bag is big enough to hold a laptop and a change of clothes and small enough to fit under an airplane seat, allowing her to skip checking luggage. The flight to New York, for treatment following a recent joint replacement, was a breeze, and the suitcase fit perfectly. But on her flight back to Chicago on Monday afternoon, the suitcase proved to be trouble. Hoping to avoid the jostling that often occurs during boarding, Brotine and her husband, Brent, waited until the flight was mostly full before walking down the gangway. By then, the plane's overhead bins were full, and JetBlue employees were checking some carry-ons. Brotine said there was a gate agent taking luggage as passengers boarded. The agent said nothing about her bag. But ...