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February 25, 2011
Frank@OBOW in Air travel news

Got a problem with an airline? Don’t bother writing a letter. Do what others have done—go public on the internet.

First, there was the guy who wrote a song and put up a video on Youtube on why United Breaks Guitars.

Then actor/director Kevin Smith went ballistic on twitter when he was bounced off a Southwest flight for being too big.

And now a Los Angeles woman has started a website, www.ba-bites.com claiming she was bitten by bedbugs on not one but two separate BA flights.

If Andy Warhol is looking down I have only one thing to say to him: It’s a lot easier now to get your 15 minutes of fame.

For the entire BA-bedbug story, click here. You may have to register on the site but it’s free.

(Frank II)

Update on February 25, 2011 by

Once point of interest…”Snakes on a Plane” was a movie. It didn’t really happen.

Update on March 1, 2011 by

British Airways is admitting that it found bedbugs on one of its planes and has taken it as well as another out of service for fumigation.

Apparently, both of the planes were the ones flown by the woman who put up the website about bedbugs on her BA flights.

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