Long gone are the days when airlines used the phrase “friendly skies” in their advertisements. The “unfriendly skies” would be more fitting for today’s airlines and their passengers.

Man talks on cell, plane does not crash – Southwest Airlines says a passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him. Read it at Southwest Passenger Cited For Cell Phone Chatter and wonder if he was talking to the Spitzer hooker booker…

From coast to coast by toilet – A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Read it at Man Says JetBlue Made Him Sit On Toilet and understand what they mean by “cheap seats”…