MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man and his two children were asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight in Denver after he tweeted about a boarding disagreement.
Duff Watson says he has priority boarding because of his “A-List” customer status. But a gate agent didn’t allow his two children, ages 6 and 9, to board with him Sunday on a flight to Minneapolis.
WCCO-TV (http://cbsloc.al/1x0UZFd ) reports Watson says he tweeted that the gate agent was rude and that his family was asked to leave the plane after reaching their seats.
Watson says the agent felt threatened and that his family could not return to the plane until he deleted his tweet.
The family was eventually allowed to re-board. Southwest said in a statement that it is reviewing the matter.
Airlines are joyless enterprises at best, and I’ve never found Southwest to be any more enjoyable than more conventional cattle carriers. I’ll be more even more suspicious of them in the future.
Corporations are people. People are incompetent. Therefore corporations are incompetent. (See Southwest, Verizon, etc.)
Did he re-post his tweet after they landed?
Sounds kinda fishy.
This can’t be right. Corporations are blameless, holy creatures.