Archive for Category: "Icarus Award"
Icarus Award: Wrong Place, Wrong Era & Just Plain Wrong
Would you ever love an airline enough to name your child after its flight code? This week, baby EK was named after Emirates Airlines and we think the airline and its team earned it. You know who didn’t earn such an honor….United. Find out why alongside some misplaced travel failures and one heartwarming account in [...]
Icarus Award: A Few Sore Surprises
Flying off to summer camp? Going for a scenic carriage ride? Making your home a vacation rental? You’re probably in for a surprise this week. Lily J. Kosner shows you how even the simplest journey can turn into a complex failure in this week’s Icarus Award. Heard of a Cell Phone, Mom and Dad? The [...]
Icarus Award: Beers, Bikinis & Bad Behavior
Ever wonder what it’s like to ride the luggage conveyor belt at the airport? Can you get away with wearing a bikini on an airplane? Do people really notice the art that is on display at airports? Read Ben Moroski’s take on the Icarus Awards for answers to these questions and more brought to you by [...]
Icarus Awards: Suri Suffers, Santa Snubbed & More Incidents at Security
You can’t fly private forever…Suri Cruise learned that lesson the hard way this week. And Cruise’s spawn wasn’t the only one to pass through the hands of airport security. Keep reading to find out how a recent vet, an 11-year-old with a sense of adventure and some Miami travelers all had some questionable airport screenings [...]
Icarus Award: That’s Just Garbage
It’s all garbage politics, garbage policies or just garbage this week. Seems like the Icarus nominees still haven’t learned how to follow the rules and clean up after themselves. See where debris is being scattered in Lily J. Kosner’s round up of all that’s dirty in this week’s travel news. A Pointed Perk Business travelers [...]
Icarus Award: No Crime Goes Untweeted
Admit it there’s no better forum for spur-of-the-moment complaints than Twitter, especially if you’re a celebrity or lucky enough to have a celebrity-like following. In past editions of the Icarus Award we’ve had supermodels, actors and Kardashians all voicing their complaints on the social network. This week the 140-character mode of communication is in the [...]
Icarus Award: Don’t Sit Next to Me!
Double check your seat assignments, tighten your belt and read up on the TSA rule book if you’re flying this week. With mentally disturbed celebrities up in the skies and some inappropriate TSA agents on the ground, there’s failure in every step of the travel process. From a pant-less Captain Kirk to an angry Octomom, [...]
Icarus Award: Fighting for Some Respect
It’s grope or be groped this week with a celebrity, a former TSA agent and nation fighting back against the invasion of privacy. See who’s successful as Lily J. Kosner rounds up this week’s travel failures in our Icarus Award series. Groping the Gropers Former TSA Agent Carol Price didn’t appreciate the pat down she [...]
