Southwest Airlines Strands Mentally Ill Children [View All]

Hooray for Southwest! They did it again. This time it wasn’t a catty power trip that kicked two girls off a plane and canceled their return flight. Why that is too easy.
This time they kicked off a woman whose mentally ill children were “disruptive”. Next they will throw a crying baby out the window. (Much to the delight of some losers who post on AOL)


The Story:
Wendy Slaughter was traveling with her four children and her five-months pregnant sister Friday on a Southwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Seattle.
One of Slaughter’s children has autism and she also has a daughter with cerebral palsy.
When the family landed in Phoenix they were met at the gate by police officers, detained and told they were too disruptive to get on their connecting flight to Seattle, Slaughter said.
Slaughter said they were left stranded at the Phoenix airport with no money and no lodging.
This was the first flight for the children. Slaughter admitted the children were loud and kept getting up and walking around the plane.
“The children were out of control on the flight you know, they were restless, excited and worked up and they are kids,” said Slaughter.
The family said flight attendants asked them to quiet the children twice, but they didn’t expect to be booted off the flight.
*****police officers bought them food and Motel 6 donated a hotel room for the night.
The children’s grandmother said she had to pay $2,000 to book last-minute tickets on Alaska Airlines. They said they didn’t have any problems on that three-hour flight.


So once again the Mighty Southwest proved that their lack of customer service is only matched by their heartlessness.
I hope that the Slaughter family sues for billions and that lawyers line up to help the family not fill their pockets. And I hope the public outcry is so loud that a boycott is in store. You see my cousin is autistic and I have a good reason to dislike and never fly southwest again.


Jimmy Jubes
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