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Flight attendants and passengers subdued an unruly passenger and put him in handcuffs as an American Airlines flight was approaching San Francisco, police said.

A Virgin Blue flight attendant played a sick joke on a traveling family and paid the price, according to Australia's Herald Sun.Natalie Williamson and her now estranged husband, Shayne, were traveling with their 17-month old son, Riley, on a flight from Fiji to Sydney when a flight attendant picked up the baby and put him in the overhead compartment, much to the shock and dismay of his parents.

It could be the Mexican remake of the "The Full Monty" - just swap the out-of-work British steel workers from the 1997 hit movie for curvy Latina flight attendants.

US Airways said Monday it will add 500 flight attendants and pilots next year mostly to cover planned retirements and attrition.

Police say a Southwest Airlines flight attendant took a baby from her parents on a flight from Dallas to Albuquerque after the mother slapped the crying child.

A JetBlue flight attendant unleashed a tirade, pulled the emergency-exit chute and fled Kennedy International Airport.

A flight attendant with a pilot's license ditched her normal duties and stepped in for a sick copilot of an American Airlines flight before the plane landed in Chicago, Illinois, airline officials said.

A Delta Connection flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta  was canceled after an altercation between two flight attendants.

Sen. Chuck Schumer called a flight attendant an obscenity aboard a recent U.S. Airways flight, Politico.com reported.

Number depends on level of voluntary departures

—American Airlines plans to furlough up to 410 flight attendants on April 1 unless it can get enough volunteers to take leaves, early departures or other steps to reduce their ranks.