Flying AirTran next year? You better start shedding pounds now. AirTran passengers packing extra luggage in their derrières will soon start paying double for their flights. As Southwest integrates AirTran, the budget airline will adopt Southwest's large passengers policy on March 1, 2012. more ›

It was their lips that got them in trouble, but not for smooching: Earlier this week, former "L Word" star and member of the band Uh Huh Her Leisha Hailey and her girlfriend, Camila Grey, were kicked off a Southwest airplane after being reprimanded for kissing. more ›

Southwest Airlines is building up quite the track record for kicking passengers off planes based on rules that seem to be created on the spot. Within the past year and a half, they've booted Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong for wearing baggy pants, and Kevin Smith for taking up too much space in his seat. more ›

Southwest Airlines' "accidental sunroof" is a little trick they don't want to repeat, which is how about 100 of their flights have come to be canceled today, as the airline continues to put older planes in their fleet through inspections for cracks in the fuselage. more ›

Investigators found "widespread cracking" on the skin of the Sacramento-bound Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that dramatically broke open at 36,000 feet causing depressurization and forcing an emergency landing in Yuma, Arizona on Friday, said the National Transportation Safety Board, reports CNN. more ›

300 flights have been cancelled and 79 jets are grounded as investigators look into the Southwest Airlines near-disaster on Friday after the fuselage of a Boeing 737 bound for Sacramento cracked open at 36,000 feet causing a depressurization in the cabin and forcing a quick emergency landing. Passengers aboard the aircraft captured the incident with cell phone cameras. more ›

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Phoenix-to-Sacramento flight carrying 118 passengers made a "rapid, controlled descent" emergency landing on Friday afternoon after the aircraft's fuselage cracked open at 36,000 feet causing an explosion-like sound and sudden loss of cabin pressure, reports LA Now. more ›

Health officials are in a hurry to determine exactly how many passenger may have been exposed to measles after an infected passenger visited 4 different airports throughout the U.S. on Feb 22. more ›

Mr. Clerks had it out with another airline, this time because he was late and they were jerks. Eight minutes to blastoff and first class tickets in hand Kevin Smith and wife were denied boarding on a Virgin Atlantic flight from JFK on Monday having missed the ten minute pre-leave window. Pleading with the "unfriendly face" about the jetway still being attached and some much-needed medication in the checked luggage another 15 minutes went by with the couple standing in the terminal. Following Smith's tweet rant Virgin, unlike Southwest, sent an immediate apology, refund and free tix offer. more ›

A Southwest Airlines passenger discovered a, "fully loaded ammunition clip," while in flight today from Burbank to Phoenix, reports the Daily News. The clip belonging to a law enforcement officer's service weapon was accidentally dropped by an air marshal or a police officer on a previous flight. All passengers were taken off the aircraft and rescreened in Phoenix. It is unclear how long the ammunition was on the plane and what caliber bullets the clip contained. No other weapons were found. more ›

Reports are just coming out now regarding a Cessna 210 that almost landed with its wheels up. "My heart was just pounding. The guy was 20 to 30 feet above the ground," Carlos Rodriguez, an Ontario Airport air traffic controller, said who was informed by a Southwest Airlines pilot who first saw the Cessna trying to land. Rodriguez then quickly informed another controller, Bruce Bradigan who told the pilot to abort landing. The pilot, William R. Otto, has been flying private planes for 30 years and didn't use his checklist for landing. As he told the LA Times: "I made a mistake." more ›

A Southwest flight and a Skywest turboprop had a close call runway incursion Sunday morning. Albeit considered minor, it was the eighth such incident since October. more ›

We are unsure when this ABC report was aired. Nevertheless, it is extremely well done and many of the issues represented here are still current challenges.... more ›

Sir Richard Branson's SFO-based harem of nubile air carriages wants you on board. Beginning this morning, cut-rate tickets are on sale for LAX-SFO flights on Virgin America. 5 flights daily are scheduled to shuttle between the two airports starting August 8 -- with coach seats going for $44 each way (before tax). First-class Virgin tickets are also offered at the introductory price of $149 each way. While numerous airlines have been grounded, bought out, or... more ›