An airline has made a huge blunder by putting a teenage boy on the wrong flight, almost incurring a reverse Home Alone story. Thankfully, the boy is safe and sound.

If you can think of anything worse than being surrounded by unruly insects during a nine-hour flight, please email your response to notpossible@doesnotexist.org.

Welcome back, travel folk. Let’s get your heads back into gear with the latest news in the aviation industry.

This week’s aviation wrap is full of new planes and flights, while Travel Weekly’s editor is full after completing the 1kg steak challenge down at the local pub.

Travel Weekly took a leaf out of Spider-Man’s book by donning an alter-ego for airline news with the ‘aviation wrap’. Someone should have told us the red and blue leotard was optional.

The United Airlines employee is accused of calling actress Cacilie Hughes a “shining monkey”.

Meanwhile, a brain outage suffered by Travel Weekly’s reporter had him eating cottage cheese instead of ice cream for last night’s dessert.

A Miss Australia finalist has allegedly assaulted a US flight attendant and marshal, in an incident the marshal described as the most severe he had ever encountered.

With the recent news that not a single Australian carrier made the top 20 for cleanest airline cabin, Travel Weekly recommends carrying hand sanitiser with you on all domestic flights.

In a big win for equality and inclusiveness, United and American Airlines will make it optional to leave gender as male or female, as well as unspecified or undisclosed.

Personally, we hold no prejudice toward airline food. But if the thought of consuming an airline’s midair offering makes your stomach churn, perhaps you should skip this one.

We wish we could call in a mayday and have our office shut down every time we were running late but our boss said sleeping in doesn’t count as an emergency.