Fight over bag space in the overhead bin...
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Fight over bag space in the overhead bin...
Until Southwest starts enforcing the carry on bag size, and takes an official position on what is an open seat..... this is going to keep happening....
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight | Fox News
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight | Fox News
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Are you implying this regularly has happened before? If not, why will it start now? And what does a policy on opening seating have anything to do with this?
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Until Southwest starts enforcing the carry on bag size, and takes an official position on what is an open seat..... this is going to keep happening....
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
Hopefully the PD was given that video and WN also bans the punk
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Until Southwest starts enforcing the carry on bag size, and takes an official position on what is an open seat..... this is going to keep happening....
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
And as another poster pointed out "going to keep happening" seems to imply it is or will be a regular event.
Also, I don't see anywhere in the article or video that this had anything to do with carry on bag size. It could just have easily been about someone thinking that the bin space they wanted to use shouldn't be used by someone else. Or a number of other things.
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Fights and boiling points that were at the point that it could become physical? Yes, it has and will happen.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/10/us/fi...ght/index.html
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video...thwest-flight/
http://kxan.com/2017/07/11/fight-for...urn-to-austin/
https://wtop.com/national/2017/07/pa...thwest-flight/
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I think WN already has taken a position on what is an open seat. All seats are open until they aren't.
And as another poster pointed out "going to keep happening" seems to imply it is or will be a regular event.
Also, I don't see anywhere in the article or video that this had anything to do with carry on bag size. It could just have easily been about someone thinking that the bin space they wanted to use shouldn't be used by someone else. Or a number of other things.
And as another poster pointed out "going to keep happening" seems to imply it is or will be a regular event.
Also, I don't see anywhere in the article or video that this had anything to do with carry on bag size. It could just have easily been about someone thinking that the bin space they wanted to use shouldn't be used by someone else. Or a number of other things.
Yes, the exact bin space spark was not mentioned in that article, but with SWA letting people bring full size bags instead of enforcing the carry on size is also setting up a stage for confrontation.
The bottom line is that this is just people behaving badly.
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Agree 100%. It could be about anything. Some people just don't know how to behave and get along.
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Fights and boiling points that were at the point that it could become physical? Yes, it has and will happen.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/10/us/fi...ght/index.html
FBI Launches Investigation Into Fight On Southwest Flight « CBS Los Angeles
Fight forces Southwest plane to return to Austin | KXAN.com
https://wtop.com/national/2017/07/pa...thwest-flight/
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/10/us/fi...ght/index.html
FBI Launches Investigation Into Fight On Southwest Flight « CBS Los Angeles
Fight forces Southwest plane to return to Austin | KXAN.com
https://wtop.com/national/2017/07/pa...thwest-flight/
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Until Southwest starts enforcing the carry on bag size, and takes an official position on what is an open seat..... this is going to keep happening....
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
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Please name another airline and I will link to double the number of flights with fights that you linked to. You can love or hate Southwest policies, and I might agree or disagree with you about those policies. Your contention that these policies foster fights aboard the plane is laughable.
Maybe laughable to you, however plainly evident to others who have posted the same sentiment.
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Until Southwest starts enforcing the carry on bag size, and takes an official position on what is an open seat..... this is going to keep happening....
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
Violent brawl delays Southwest Airlines flight after overhead bin fight Fox News
Sorry. This has little (maybe nothing?) to do with carry on bag size enforcement. Just another horses ... being a jerk.
I find carry on bags of any size are rarely an issue on WN compared to other airlines - thanks to free checked bags. We still do carryon on only, even for two week trips and never have a problem storing bags.
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