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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy Slept Here
Silent: The only thing in this story that's "...more to it than this" is that Southwest knows, as do the other US-based airlines, that the government won't enforce (or doesn't have the resources to) the laws relating to an airline's status as a common carrier. Southwest could have, and should have, just ignored the writing. But, obviously, one or more egos were bruised. So, once again, "bruised egos" are a reason for denial of boarding. This incident is basically similiar to the cases where someone is wearing a t-shirt with a political or social commentary, with NO four-letter words and no dirty pictures, and they are denied boarding because they won't turn their t-shirt inside-out.
Silent this is a prime example of what I've referred to in my other posts about police state tactics on the part of US-based airlines. Obviously, Silent, you and your airline friends on here support this kind of behavior.
I talk about this topic, in detail, at:
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So you support the behavior of someone who writes "Southwest Sucks" on a boarding pass? He obviously was trying to **** someone off and he succeeded. Southwest was simply concerned that if someone is so disgruntled as to deface a boarding pass what might be his behavior when he's sealed inside of an aluminum tube at 35,000 feet?
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy Slept Here
What is, really, needed here is for someone to organize a re-run of the Civil Rights era lunch counter, or bus depot, protests. About a dozen people should all show-up, with an attorney and a private investigator to monitor, wearing t-shirts with the word "Southwest" in a circle with a diagonal line through the circle. Everyone goes to the gate, with a ticket, and waits to see if they will be allowed to board. The return trip is surface transportation in case the airline decides to pull a fast one.
Some of the airline stooges on here are begining to look more and more like **** Cheney: "9-11" justifies a police state and suspension of the Constitution.
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A little over the top but any airline can refuse transportation to anyone they feel might disrupt the operation or threaten the safety of their aircraft. If I was on a plane and a group of people boarded that plane with the airline's name crossed out like a "do not enter" sign I would expect the crew to take some action. (Actually I would be questioning why they were allowed to get that far.) If allowed to board I would de-plane myself and request to be put on a later flight.