southwest airlines
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Fox News: Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Being Investigated for ‘Profiling’ Trump Supporter
Leave it to poor POTUS’ pals at Fox News to appropriate a racialized term for when people in power abuse it when dealing with disenfranchised people. But I may be getting ahead of myself. Let me explain. Rupert Murdoch’s Republican-loving conservative news outlet spun a story about a clout-chasing Southwest flight attendant lampooning a Trump-supporting…
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Southwest Flight Diverted After Passenger Tried to Join the Mile-High Weed Club
A Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles was diverted Wednesday afternoon after a passenger decided to join the mile-high club. No, they weren’t in the bathroom getting it on with another passenger—they were getting it on with some marijuana. According to CBS affiliate KCAL-TV, the plane made an emergency landing at Mineta…
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College Basketball Coach Says Southwest Airlines Employee Asked Her to Prove That Her Biracial Son Was Hers
The airlines are back at it again, with Southwest being accused of demanding that a white mother prove that her infant biracial son was indeed her own. According to CBS San Francisco affiliate KPIX-TV, University of California women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb said that she was approached at a Denver airport by a Southwest Airlines…
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Southwest Airline Passenger Forcibly Removed From Flight After Stating Dog Allergies
A Baltimore woman was forcibly removed from her Southwest flight headed from Baltimore to Los Angeles after she stated that she had a dog allergy. The incident unfolded Tuesday night after Anila Daulatzai, a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, alerted the crew that she had severe allergies to dogs, and asked that…
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Wash. Man Arrested After Texting About Sexually Abusing Children During Southwest Flight: Report
A Southwest passenger is being applauded for her keen eye after she alerted the flight crew about a man sitting next to her who was texting about sexually abusing children, authorities say. Michael Kellar, 56, of Tacoma, Wash., was arrested after his flight from Seattle landed in San Jose, Calif., Monday. During his flight, according…
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Louis Freeman, 1st Black Chief Pilot of a Major US Airline, Retires
After 37 years of flying, Capt. Louis Freeman is retiring his stripes. Freeman became Southwest Airlines’ first African-American pilot in 1980, and in 1992 he became the first black chief pilot of a major U.S. airline. A celebration was held in Chicago Thursday for Freeman after he landed one of his last flights, Flight 412,…
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Passengers Get Into Fistfight on Southwest Plane Shortly After It Lands in Calif.
I am really not sure what is going on in the world today, with all this controversial airline news—from racism by the airlines themselves to horrible and even threatening “customer service,” to petty fights on board between passengers—but apparently no airline is safe. Some passengers aboard a Southwest plane that landed in Burbank, Calif., got…
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NFL Player’s Father Identified as Victim Killed in Okla. Airport Shooting
The father of a Kansas City Chiefs player has been identified as the victim killed in a shooting at an Oklahoma airport Tuesday. Michael Winchester, 52, was a Southwest Airlines employee and the father of James Winchester, a long snapper with the Kansas City Chiefs. Michael Winchester was killed Tuesday in a shooting at Oklahoma…