At this point in the game and the latitude flight attendants seem to feel with civil rights and violations of passengers' liberties, only a lawsuit seems bound to correct the airline industry's out-of-control crews. Green Day band leader Billie Joe Armstrong is booted from Southwest Airlines over sagging pans--as the Patriot Act has become an excuse for the abuse of civil liberties. Read more
For those craving a cigarette while on a domestic flight, be warned: The FBI could get involved--at least if you're flying on Southwest Airlines. It's all over an electronic cigarette, peanuts and pretzels. And a serious lack of friendly skies that are threatening a smoker with 20 years' jail time. Read more
Don't suffer a personal or family tragedy that leaves you grieving. It just might get you get kicked off Southwest Airlines. Two sisters whose destination was their father's house, after their dad suffered a heart attack, claim they were booted from a Southwest flight in late July--after one of the women began crying. Read more
It's quite an irony: TSA and airlines subject passengers to more and more stringent rules to fly--supposedly to protect passengers and maintain safety--yet Southwest Airlines and the FAA allow a pilot filled with hate to fly airplanes carrying hundreds. James Taylor apologizes to flight attendants to avoid a lawsuit. If you're the public or a Southwest customer, don't expect one. Read more
Southwest Airlines crew disciplined a U.S. citizen--removing her from a flight for wearing a headscarf and refusing to allow her on the flight because of crew discomfort, in an act called anti-Muslim. Three Jews are thrown off an Alaska flight, the same day, for ritual prayer. Read more
A Southwest Airlines employee is back to work flying passengers--after the pilot's open mic taped audio rant filled with obscenities and homophobic slurs, open admission of hating gays, and dubbing overweight women "pigs". Lawmakers and customers call for a boycott of the airline. Read more