Travel News – Man Overboard, Pilot Dies, Children Lost, British Airline "Volunteers"

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It is not as uncommon as you would hope that people go over the side of their cruise ship and are not heard from again. A man was recently saved after 3 hours in the water. How was it that you said he fell overboard again?

Man Overboard: Carnival Inspiration

According to reports, Larry Miller, 46, fell overboard from the cruise ship as it was returning to the Port of Tampa at 4 a.m. this morning. Fortunately for Miller, the crew of a pilot boat spotted him in the shipping channel near the Sunshine Skyway shortly before 7 a.m.

A spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Lines told Bay News 9 that, “Miller fell overboard when he climbed on a railing to get a better view of a boat as it passed by. He slipped, then fell overboard.”

Planes land safely everyday without making the news. What does make the news is when this happens after the pilot has died.

Pilot dies flying plane to the US

Nearly 250 airline passengers landed safely at their destination after the captain of the plane died mid-flight.

Losing your luggage is not uncommon these days with the airline industry. Losing your children should be.

2 girls put on wrong Continental Express flights

Continental Airlines said Tuesday it has taken steps to ensure that proper procedures are followed after two unaccompanied girls were placed on wrong Continental Express flights over the weekend.

An 8-year-old College Station girl erroneously ended up in Fayetteville, Ark., and a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl was mistakenly sent to Newark, N.J., after boarding planes operated by ExpressJet, which is under contract with Continental.

How much do you love your job and your employer. Do you love it enough to work there for free? If not, let’s hope you don’t work for British Airlines.

BA staff may be working for free

According to Bloomberg, British Airways recently asked its 40,000 employees to consider laboring for nothing for up to one month. “Colleagues are being urged to help the airline’s cash-saving drive by signing up for unpaid leave or unpaid work,” read an article in BA News, the carrier’s in-house newspaper. Chief executive Willie Walsh, who has pledged to forgo his $100,000 monthly salary in July, said the airline was caught in a “fight for survival”.

Other stories that caught my eye:

• Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash
• WHO declares swine flu pandemic
• Pilots and control towers, some real life exchanges