Making it past airport TSA screening with that illegal substance that does not harm your lungs and has never killed anyone, is difficult but not impossible. But 43-year-old Adam Blumenkranz was arrested on a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale to Newark for allegedly smoking dope. Crew members told the AP that they gave Blumenkranz the stink eye after he "dropped a clear plastic bag in the cabin." more ›

The TSA, flush with change from your pocket, has finally gotten around to apologizing to the elderly women who were strip-searched at the JetBlue terminal at JFK over the Thanksgiving holiday. Well, sort of. more ›

Yesterday the Daily News was all about "hero cop" Anibal Mercado, who subdued a drunk and belligerent (allegedly punchy and bitey) 22-year-old on a flight from the Dominican Republic to JFK this weekend. It seemed like a simple, feel-good narrative: police officers doing their job off-duty! But now there's a new twist, because it turns out the drunk man, Antonio Ynoa, suffers from mental problems related to a severe head injury caused by the police. more ›

The front page of today's Daily News is devoted to "hero cop" Anibal Mercado, who saved a plane full of Jet Blue passengers from... a rowdy drunk guy on a flight. Mercado, a Bronx cop who was off duty and returning home from a Thanksgiving vacation in the Dominican Republic Saturday night, restrained the sodden passenger after he allegedly punched a male flight attendant. The inebriate in question, 22-year-old Antonio Ynoa, had been demanding club soda to mix with his rum, and Mercado says he flipped out when flight attendants said it was against the rules to drink Duty Free alcohol during the flight. more ›

The Department of Transportation's Aviation Consumer Protection division is investigating Jet Blue's handling of Flight 504, which was left for dead on a snowy tarmac in Hartford, Connecticut for seven and a half hours on Saturday. Passengers on the plane included a paraplegic from Staten Island who had to use urological supplies to relieve himself because the bathrooms were clogged, a diabetic, and several unhappy children. Good times! LiveATC.net obtained the cockpit recording, in which you can hear the pilot desperately pleading for help, at point begging: "We just need a tug and a tow bar. If you just give me a welding shop, I'd be happy to weld one myself." more ›

Yesterday's freak snow storm threw air travel along the East Coast for a loop. Flights were stopped for hours at JFK, Laguardia and Newark. And for one Newark-bound Jet Blue flight from Miami, that meant its 200 passengers were stuck on the tarmac at Bradley International in Hartford, Connecticut for eight hours. A Miami Sun-Sentinel sports writer, on his way to today's Giants game versus the Dolphins, Tweeted, "Lady on board just broke down. Like that guy who cried in his cell at the beginning of Shawshank. Can someone sneak me in Rita Hayworth?" more ›

The veteran New York Post copy editor and the author of the famous headline, "Axis Of Weasel," died on Thursday from complications related to a recent stroke. Joseph Cunningham was 43 years-old. more ›

Some new details have emerged in the unusual urinary in-air incident involving a drunk teen skier and an unwitting 12-year-old girl. Okay, there's only one new detail about Robert "Sandy" Vietze's alleged pissing-while-in-a-passenger row on a JetBlue flight bound for JFK, but it's a big one: The girl's dad says she wasn't peed upon. more ›

The saga of the 18-year-old who, during a drunken stupor, then urinated on the 12-year-old girl on his flight continues. Robert "Sandy" Vietze was hit with a federal indecent-exposure charge. The charges detail that he was drinking before he ever got to Portland International Airport (therefore JetBlue did not serve an underage passenger!). more ›

The JetBlue redeye from Portland to JFK made a strong bid for Worst Flight Ever yesterday, when a drunk 18-year-old boy allegedly peed all over a 11 year-old girl in her seat, which did not go over well with her father. Oh, and then someone puked. more ›

In this grainy photo, you can see what Harlem financial consultant Malinda Knowles was wearing just before she headed to LaGuardia Airport to catch a JetBlue flight to Florida last year. It seems Knowles's attire just wasn't modest enough for the pilot, who allegedly refused to fly the plane with her on board. She says it's because somebody thought she wasn't wearing anything under her baggy T-shirt, and after dragging her off the plane for a degrading underwear inspection, the pilot still wouldn't take off. more ›

Great! Just over a week after it was revealed that a man without a valid ID (or valid boarding pass) managed to get on a JFK-LA flight, now it's reported that a stun gun was found in a seat on a Jet Blue plane that landed at Newark Airport on Friday. My Fox NY "obtained" the Striker 1800 stun gun from sources who "say they suspect that the stun gun got through screening at Logan Airport in Boston." This really bodes well for body bomb screening. more ›

After being sucked into a plane that took off from JFK, another bird has gone up to the big…sky in the sky. The Post reports that passengers on the aircraft started salivating shortly after takeoff: "Suddenly the plane smelled like chicken," one woman said, "I thought, 'Wow! They have hot food on the plane!'" Don't give the airlines any ideas! more ›

The newish JetBlue terminal at JFK airport—the first new terminal at the airport since 9/11—boasts a 55,000-square-foot retail area with 22 food concessions, dozens of specialty retail stores, a children’s play area, and free Wi-Fi. There's even a free "Live From T5 concert series," which kicked off with Grammy award-winning recording artist James Blunt! They've thought of everything at the "state of the art" 26 gate terminal, except for one teensy detail discovered by the NY Post: it's a "dead zone" for police radios. more ›

Steven Slater's 15 minutes have stretched into 2011, and New York magazine has a profile on the former Jet Blue flight attendant and very momentary folk hero. The quirky quitting tactic Slater took is always worth revisiting, so here we go (again). Last year, at his wit's end, Slater announced over the intercom on a JetBlue flight: “To the passenger who called me a motherfucker: Fuck you. I’ve been in this business for twenty years. And that’s it. I’ve had it. I’m done.” He then grabbed two beers, slid down the emergency chute to his freedom, and a hero was born... until all the other sides of the story came out. But let's not go there again. Instead, a look at that profile, which manages to fill in some blanks (such as Slater and his partner Rochelle weren't having sex when authorities showed up). more ›

Sure, pilots may be able to pack heat when they are flying...but shouldn't they keep track of their guns when they've landed? A JetBlue pilot is under investigation after losing his government-issued gun at JFK Airport yesterday. According to the Daily News, Michael Connery Jr. "placed his bag down and chatted up another pilot," when a passenger mistakenly took his bag on her flight to West Palm Beach, Florida. more ›

While he's not Time's Person of the Year, former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater did own this year's spare 15 minutes of fame. TIME explains: "Fifteen-minute fame is not like the regular kind. The celebrities it creates are sticks in a stream, suddenly aswirl in a dizzying current. When JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater was hit on the head by a passenger's bag in August and had what he describes as the 'hissy fit heard around the world,' ending in a dramatic exit via an emergency chute, he was not expecting to become a folk hero to overworked, stressed-out employees everywhere." more ›

Former JetBlue flight attendant, and fleeting folk hero Steven Slater was back in court yesterday meeting with Judge Marcia Hirsch. In October Slater pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief after having a Falling Down moment on the job, telling off a passenger, activating an emergency chute, and sliding to his freedom with two beers in hand. He has agreed to get mental health counseling and substance abuse treatment, as well as pay JetBlue $10,000 for the chute. Yesterday Hirsch warned him to stay on the wagon during the stressful and spirited holiday season, the Daily News reports. more ›

Steven Slater is back in the limelight for a moment today, appearing on CBS's Early Show. The former JetBlue flight attendant went from folk hero to zero in August after making a dramatic departure from his job, and the aircraft he was on. As we all know by now, Slater told a passenger off over the intercom, deployed an emergency chute, grabbed a few Blue Moon beers, and took his leave. more ›

While for a short time it seemed as though Steven Slater's ceremonious exit from his flight attendant position at JetBlue would give him folk hero status, it turns out his path emergency chute less traveled only landed him in court. It was back in August that Slater told off a passenger over the aircraft's intercom, then upon landing at JFK grabbed two beers, activated the emergency chute, and slid away from his troubles... or so it seemed. more ›

Are you the kind of person who chooses their airline based on the logo? Are you swayed into spending your money by synergistic puns? Do you really frakking love the Jets? Then climb aboard, because JetBlue has got something special just for you: the company unveiled a special new paint scheme for one of their Airbus A320 aircraft, to commemorate their being the official sponsor of the Jets team. And get this: its their first plane to not have any blue featured in it whatsoever! more ›

Our only question—how would Steven Slater have handled this passenger? Yesterday evening, a passenger was removed from Tampa-bound JetBlue Flight 21 last night. His removal was described as being due to a "security concern" but not a terror-related one. Now it turns out he had been trying to switch seats. more ›

Did Playboy playmate Tiffany Livingston try to de-board the JetBlue flight she was on yesterday while it was in mid-air? According to the NY Post, she bolted from her seat and attempted to open the door of the plane, which was en route to Newark from Orlando. The 21-year-old allegedly has high anxiety, and one source said, "she's gone through this before, but never this bad, and didn't have her medication." more ›

Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater was a folk hero for longer than most of us will ever be, but his status fell fast as passengers on the now-famous flight told their side of the story. And now the Wall Street Journal reports that following investigations by two agencies, during which time every single passenger and crew member were interviewed, no one on board the flight backed up Slater's story. more ›

Steven Slater, the former JetBlue flight attendant who exited his job by pulling the emergency slide on an aircraft last month, is fighting for a plea deal. Slater is a recovering alcoholic, who is also HIV positive, and has been taking care of his sick mother—she told the Daily News, "I certainly don't want him to go to jail. If he could get some counseling instead, that would be terrific. He's a busy boy. But he takes care of his dear old mom." more ›

Even though he made the most dramatic exit ever from his job last month, it seemed Steven Slater had second thoughts about leaving his post as a JetBlue flight attendant. However, last week the airline just made it official, saying Slater resigned or was fired or something. And today he'll be paying for his actions even more, as the NY Post reports he's in court today for a routine hearing on criminal-mischief charges. more ›

Well, at least he got to say good-bye in the most memorable way possible: Steven Slater, the JetBlue attendant who emergency chute-shot his way to infamy when he exited a flight at JFK Airport via the emergency slide after an alleged confrontation with an obnoxious passenger, is no longer working for the Queens-based airline. Spokeswoman Jenny Darvin confirmed as much but added, "I cannot confirm whether he resigned or whether he was fired. It's considered a private matter." more ›

Remember Steven Slater? The JetBlue flight attendant made a dramatic exit from an aircraft at JFK earlier this month and, well, you know... beers, emergency chutes, swearing at passengers, media frenzy! Now the airline's CEO is speaking out, and Dave Barger says the former company employee "is not a hero in my book. He added that he's "disheartened to think that so many people would call him a hero." more ›

Oh how the mighty folk hero has fallen. Just one week after JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater made a dramatic exit from his job by deploying the emergency slide, investigators may be closing in on what really happened. Following his exit, Slater became a somewhat of a hero, garnering applause from the working class for his FallingSliding Down moment. However, as the days have passed, passengers on the flight have come out and said that Slater's story was all lies. more ›

Oh the fleeting star of celebrity. According to AP, JetBlue has yet to find anyone on Steven Slater's flight who can confirm that he got into such a nasty dispute with a passenger. Slater claimed his grand, double-fisting exit was preceded by a fight with a rude passenger, but passenger reports say it was Slater who was rude for most of the flight, and nobody has recalled the final dispute. Now a few are saying Slater, who may have been drunk on the flight, was lying about the head gash that may have started it all. more ›