A simple misunderstanding led to an inadvertent bomb scare over the weekend aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from BWI Airport in Maryland to Long Island, according to media reports. The confusion started when one of the pilots on Southwest Flight 1155 used the jet’s P.A. system to welcome the mother of an air traffic controller [...]

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You are now free to move about the country…as long as you’re straight. Leisha Hailey, a lesbian actress who starred in The L Word, got booted off of a Southwest Airlines Co. flight on Monday for kissing a girl. Her first tweet about the incident said: “I have been discriminated against.” She later added, “Since [...]

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Billie Joe Armstrong didn’t have to wait until September ends to get a rude awakening from Southwest Airlines. The Green Day frontman was booted off a flight on Thursday night because he was looking like a fool with his pants on the ground.  He was escorted off the Oakland to Burbank flight after a flight [...]

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A giant hole in the fuselage of Southwest Airlines Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento forced the craft to make an emergency landing at a military base in Yuma, Arizona yesterday. Sacramento International officials said that the Boeing 737 landed safely at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station/International Airport at 4:07 p.m. local time (7:07 p.m. [...]

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Police in Idaho have arrested Russell Miller, an elderly man who punched a teen in the arm for refusing to turn off his iPhone during a flight from Las Vegas. Passengers say the argument started when flight attendants announced that the Southwest plane was on final approach to land late Tuesday and told passengers to [...]

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The number of airlines with whom you can choose to fly has just decreased by one.  Southwest Airlines said on Monday that it will purchase rival AirTran Airways for $1.4 billion. The merger of these two airlines giants continues a trend of consolidation within the airline industry, following the union of Continental and United Airlines, [...]

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Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the “in-flight safety lecture” and their other announcements a bit less boring and more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been overheard: More here: Funny Lists 1. There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this [...]

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Film director and actor Kevin Smith was ejected from Southwest Airlines flight yesterday for being a “safety risk,” which is basically a nice way of saying that they thought he was too fat to fly the not-so-friendly skies. Smith was heading to Burbank from Oakland, had already been seated, and was all set to go [...]

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One Arizona man has found a creative way to dodge those speeding camera tickets. He wears masks. Really. He, or someone wearing his mask, has been caught blowing past speed cameras wearing monkey masks, giraffe masks, and several other masks in an effort to skirt the system. David VonTesmar admits that he owns the masks [...]

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[DING] You are now free to surf the internet while hurtling through the atmosphere at 600 mph in a decompressed metal tube. Southwest Airlines is about to offer a wide-scale release of their in-flight WiFi service.  It’s been in beta testing and is set to make its debut in early 2010. According to preliminary testers, [...]

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Details are slowly emerging this afternoon regarding that Southwest Airlines emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia last night. According to various accounts (and the photo below), a one-by-one-foot hole opened up in the roof of the Boeing 737-300 while the flight was traveling between Nashville and Baltimore / Washington International airport (BWI). It looks like [...]

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