Too Pretty to Fly? Southwest Airlines Thinks So, or Do They Really?

Airlines have so many issues to worry about these days such as terrorism, national security, bomb scares and now beauty. This is according to an 18 year old USF student Nisreen Swedberg and her good friend Sarah Williams. They claim that on a Southwest Airlines flight to Los Angeles from Tampa Bay on February 14th, the crew had it out for them from the start. The reason was not because they were a threat to crew or passengers, they did not have immigration issues and they didn't even try to smuggle a bomb onto the plane, the reason according to the girls was they were just too beautiful to fly.

This unfortunately is not the first time Southwest Airline has had this type of accusation against them, another beautiful bombshell named Kyla Ebbert , not too long ago went through the very same thing, guess what? She is rich off of the media and rich from Playboy now. I can't help but wonder if these two pretty young things are after the same attention, publicity or cash. Southwest Airlines should hold a large amount of stock in Playboy, with all the accusations they are getting from beautiful voluptuous girls who later go on to do interviews with "Today's Matt Lauer", "NBC Nightly", "Jay Leno" and ultimately make it into the centerfold of Playboy Magazine. Let's use a few of the other incidents that happened, again according to Swedberg and Williams.

The young beauty Nisreen claims that when she asked for water, the attendant told her to wait until the rest of the passengers had been served. This does not sound like an Airline Stewardess from any airline, not just Southwest Airlines. There would have to be a justified reason for making a bold statement like that. Then another situation, Sarah Williams needed to use the restroom, but quickly noticed it was already in use, she waited about 15 minutes and knocked on the door, when the man who occupied the restroom came out, she claims he was enraged and screaming profanity at her, now this could very well be true as I had that experience on a plane before myself. People just tend to get cranky on long flights.

I believe what Williams was upset about was the fact that when she yelled back at him, the flight crew only questioned her, not the gentleman that first started the verbal fight. Can you say Paris Hilton anyone? These girls may be beautiful, they are definitely young, but are they being reasonable? We may never know. What I question is the statements below made by them, quoted from the young girls themselves from a website called TampaBays10.com.

"I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us," she said. "[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger."

Were they serious? "The flight attendants were-like-uh-older ladies" I am really hoping that these girls have someone in their corner to help with this claim, lawsuit or case. I traveled to Washington DC from Los Angeles back in August of 2007. I too, traveled by Southwest Airlines. My experience was wonderful with the occasional disturbance from passengers very much like these two young ladies. The crew was fabulous, the security checkpoint phenomenal and the cocktails...even better!

I do recall having to use the restroom and someone else was occupying it, when they came out to find me waiting at the door for them, they started hollering cranky obscenities at me, I just smiled and said, "excuse me Sir, I really have to go" and that was the end of that heated moment, guess there was no chance of a "Mile High Club" experience there. I believe my point is simple, people really do copycat other situations. This case is so similar to the other "pretty woman" case and probably many others that have just not made it to our media stream yet.

Southwest Airlines does however, defend the incident by saying the women caused a disruption on the flight. They also go on to say that the girls were treated fairly due to the circumstances at hand. When the plane landed in Los Angeles, the women were escorted off the plane by four uniformed Police Officers and later questioned by the FBI and about two hours later released without any charges being filed against them.

As far as Airlines conducting business in this manner, I really do find it doubtful. My experience had been on a 747 plane from Southwest Airlines to Washington DC, a 5 hour flight from Los Angeles. I can honestly say some of the people you meet on board these carriers can sometimes resemble the strange freak shows found in many circuses. There are many different walks of life, young and old, bold and beautiful and even at times people that you just want to know how in the world they even made it onto that plane, so there is no question that these two girls or even myself ran into a few of them.

The difference between me and those girls is that I am not trying to gain exposure, money or fame by saying that the Airliner acted improperly, even though my "rum & coke" was a bit watery, the food, well what food actually? and I am starting to think that the whole "Mile High Club" theory would ultimately be impossible on a 747 anyway. The world is full of beautiful people, so I could safely bet that this will not be the last we here of the "Beauty and the Airline" stories.