Thought Alec Baldwin’s Words With Friends/American Airlines scandal was over? Well, you’ve clearly underestimated our collective attention span when it comes to iPhone app-related jet way disturbances. TMZ reports that Wegmans, the Rochester, New York-based supermarket chain, had pulled holiday ads featuring Baldwin after they received complaints from a handful of customers. Now Wegmans has apologized and decided it will run the ads after even more people complained than the original complainers. Hopefully this whole ordeal will be sorted out by 2013.

Alec Baldwin, a prolific celebrity Twitter user, has shut down his account after stirring up some trouble yesterday when he was booted from an American Airlines flight. He claimed he was just trying to play Words With Friends, when the rude flight attendants told him to stop. He then proceeded to bash the airline on Twitter, and promoted rival United Airlines for a few hours. The whole affair was very retweet-worthy, and good fodder for gossip blogs. Even though the plane was standing still at the gate, was Baldwin in the wrong? Could it be possible that a much-loved famous person with a previous history of rude behavior and a short temper is actually not a very nice guy after all? 

Like most people, I go to internet-based travel reservation sites like Orbitz to determine what airlines offer cheaper flights/better routes, then go directly to the respective airline to book my ticket. Although most airline travel agencies are no longer charging fees, it's just easier to deal with fewer parties. But now that American Airlines pulled from Orbitz, all airlines are no longer consolidated on their one platform. Bummer.

In a terrible twist of irony, American Airlines, otherwise known as AA, today introduced "5@5," where in-flight cocktails are a mere five bucks between the hours of 5 and 6pm. It's not much of a discount, as the window for high-altitude binging is only an hour long, and your tab will only be a few dollars lighter after you've put back a few of those tiny Merlot bottles (cocktails are usually $7 and beer $6), but it's nice to know American is actually giving back instead of adding more fees. Sorry to get your hopes up, AAers.

Domestic airlines are inarguably the worst in the world. We all have our horror stories, whether it's lost baggage or customer service. American Airlines had to deal with lawsuits for not waiving a nominal fee while United lost a shitload of customers when their pilots arrived at Heathrow drunk. In any case, we can argue for days on end about which airline is the worst of all, but thankfully, we don't have to. The Department of transportation has already mapped it out for us with its Air Travel Consumer Report. So, in the generally friendly skies, who are the biggest dicks?

After almost a year of never-before-seen airfare deals ($50 to round-trip to Miami, anyone?), the airline industry is actually doing just fine, thank you very much. It looks like charging passengers for checked baggage, blankets, exit-row seats—and anything else they could squeeze out of us—actually worked. Air travel is out of the weeds. "Good times are finally back for the nation's airlines," the AP reports. So what's the bad news? "For travelers, that means it's getting hard to find bargains." Right.

A Washington woman has filed a $5 million class action law suit against American Airlines for losing her luggage. Danielle Covarrubias was flying from Seattle to Washington last May when the airline lost her luggage, a single bag with about $800 worth of possessions. She waited for the next flight with no luck. She then went and spent $300 on new toiletries and clothing while she waited for the bag. After 24 hours, she checked back in with the airline. She asked for her $25 baggage fee to be refunded, but the airline reportedly refused. "In her last conversation with American Airlines…she was told nothing could be done," the lawsuit says. If only they'd just given her the 25 bucks.

In a recent consumer report, Southwest flight attendants were ranked the friendliest in the skies, but we cast our vote for Patti DeLuna, an American Airlines flight attendant who helped land a plane carrying 225 passengers and 7 crew members on Monday after the first officer fell ill.

It's been a big week for nickeling and diming for American Airlines. Earlier in the week, they said they'd start charging $8 for a pillow and blanket in coach on domestic flights and a few international ones. Now, just a few days later, they've come up with yet another new charge!

Traditionally, the only things you've been able to buy in-flight are food and cocktails. However, with airlines expanding into the sales of items like blankets, cigarettes, and now WiFi, the door has been cracked for other retailing opportunities on board. American Airlines has reportedly broken the seal and is selling Heathrow Express train tickets on a limited basis for some LON-bound flights. This is a smart idea -- a win-win for the passengers and the airline.