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Hood Air: Southwest Airlines Under High Scrutiny Over Holiday Meltdown

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Newsday LLC / Getty Southwest Airlines is still struggling to recover from its cancellations during the holiday season, prompting a huge backlash and federal scrutiny of its affairs. Southwest has been dealing with one of the worst operational meltdowns ever seen in the airline industry, leading to the cancellation of thousands of flights across the United States due to winter storm Elliott which occurred days before the Christmas holiday. Days later, the airline is still struggling to operate flights with crews and pilots left stranded along with passengers, accounting for 90% of U.S. flights canceled dating back to last Friday according to industry watchdog FlightAware. Despite issuing a promise to rectify the situation which included a personal message...

Southwest Airlines Pilot Threatens To ‘Pull Back To the Gate’ If Passenger Doesn’t Quit AirDropping Nudes

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images / Getty Apparently, a Southwest Airlines passenger tried to take the whole “mile high club” thing into the digital age and started AirDropping nude photos to unsuspecting recipients causing the pilot to have to issue a warning to the whole plane. Basically, it was the air traffic safety version of: “You kids better start behaving or I’m going to turn this car right around!” According to CNN, the now-viral incident all started on a flight from Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. “So here is the deal. If this continues while we’re on the ground I’m going to have to pull back to the gate, everybody’s going to have to get off, we’re going to have to get security involved and [ev...