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Bad Boys, Bad Boys … Whatcha Gonna Do? Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You?

Everybody loves a bad boy … until, that is, he does something horrible that impacts you directly and personally. In recent weeks, quite a few bad boys and girls of travel have emerged. Here are some juicy tales about the airline industry reps, passengers, pranksters, terrorists and scammers who been doing things that make us shake our heads, giggle and blow a gasket all at the same time.

Toilet charges, luggage fee increases, airline mergers, a deceased man masquerading as a sleeping passenger, a bomb scare and a plane crash — an interesting travel news week indeed.

The travel industry has been abuzz since the US Department of Transportation announced last December that new, hefty fines would be doled out when airlines left passengers trapped in planes on the tarmac for more than three hours. And, by hefty, they mean HEFTY. How does $27,500 per passenger sound?  That’s upwards of $4 million [...]