[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:

http://www.airlinecomplaints.org/sho...0276#post10276