red-eye

We flew a red-eye back East with my brother and his wife.

A 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted during a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Orlando is suing Delta Air Lines, claiming it was negligent for serving her attacker alcohol and failed to restrain him after he was found to be molesting the teen.

The story of her writing “Falling” is legend — on the red-eye, using her iPad and occasionally sketching notes on cocktail napkins, scratching out a book about a commercial jet that’s hijacked when a pilot’s family is taken hostage and he’s ordered to crash the plane.

A teenage girl who was sexually assaulted during a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Orlando is suing Delta Air Lines for negligence, claiming flight attendants served her assailant alcohol and failed to restrain him after the assault.

The Dallas-based airline will also start to offer overnight, red-eye flights, starting on Valentine’s Day 2025, in five markets including Los Angeles, Baltimore and Nashville.