Jeanie Daniels of Burbank was on her way from Los Angeles to Houston February 26 to see her boyfriend, Jimmy Hauser, according to CBS2. She was on a Southwest Airlines flight, and used her time aboard to pretty herself up and paint her nails. So how did Daniels end up spending 10 hours in police custody? more ›

Some passengers aboard a Southwest flight from Los Angeles had a less-than-smooth arrival this morning in Denver. Flight 792 managed to knock over a light pole on its way to the gate, say airport officials in the Mile-High City, reports TheDenverChannel.com. more ›

Southwest Airlines Flight 3683 to Kansas City, Mo., out of LAX made an unplanned landing at Houston Tuesday, after the crew reported that a passenger became unruly and was allegedly trying to break into the cockpit. Upon landing, 29-year-old Ali Reza Shahsauri was taken into custody "by federal authorities on a charge of interference with a flight crew." more ›

On March 13, 2011, Irum Abbasi was escorted off of a Southwest Airlines plane by a TSA employee. The Muslim woman from San Diego was wearing a hijab - the Islamic head scarf - while seated on a flight preparing for departure from San Diego to San Jose. A flight attendant became alarmed after hearing something she thought Abbasi said on her cellphone. more ›

Uh Huh Her rocker and "L-Word" actress Leisha Hailey and her girlfriend, bandmate Camila Grey, are speaking out today against Southwest Airlines after the couple were asked to leave their flight in El Paso bound for Los Angeles because they shared what the rockers say was a simple kiss. 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 ›

The underbellies of some Southwest Airlines (SWA) 737 jets have been decorated with bizarre, unauthorized markings. Arabic or Arabic-like symbols, the vandalism has investigators stumped. Unsure of what to dub the images, they are currently being referred to as said vandalism and graffiti. more ›

A woman was arrested Tuesday at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport when she tried to board a flight to Las Vegas with a loaded handgun in her carry-on bag. The weapon was spotted by Transportation Security Administration officer as her bag went through the X-ray machine. more ›

A passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City was arrested upon landing this week after an incident involving his refusal to put out his electronic cigarette. Pogos Paul Sefilian became argumentative, and used several temper tantrum tactics to express his dismay. more ›

Though he's headed to Los Angeles to be a speaker tonight at a $500-a-plate dinner at L.A. Live, Governor Jerry Brown got from Sacramento to Burbank the quick and dirty--and budget-friendly--way: He flew coach on Southwest. SFGate rode along with Brown, who reportedly turned down the $16 upgrade to "business select" and took the trek with "no press aides, no entourage, no security," and even without his wife. more ›

This was not a good weekend for Southwest Airlines. Beyond the Kevin Smith incident, in which the director was ousted from an Oakland to Burbank flight for apparently not fitting in his seat Saturday evening, a plane of theirs avoided a crash the same day, according to a KNX1070 e-mail alert: "KNX 1070 has learned that Southwest flight 2534 with 85 people on board this Saturday was on a collision course with another plane because, according to the FAA, the Southwest jet was in the wrong place. The 737 took emergency actions resulting in two flight attendants being injured one with a broken shoulder." Add: The LA Times says the Burbank-bound Southwest jet was on a collision course with a small private plane and executed an evasive maneuver. more ›

During an intense wave of this third massive winter storm to pass through the Los Angeles area, two planes approaching Bob Hope Airport were struck by lightning this morning, according to KTLA. The aircraft were both Southwest Airlines, one of which was arriving from Oakland and the other from Sacramento. "The incidents happened sometime between 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.," reports a Southwest representative. The planes landed safely, and the airline is still working to determine if the aircraft were damaged. Two passengers "aboard the Oakland flight had some kind of medical complaints and were taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center for treatment." more ›

Tuesday, a 16-year-old California teenager was arrested in Nashville after a Southwest Airlines flight Los Angeles. The AP reports that "Authorities searched the teen's home in California and found a mock cockpit... The teen's parents were reportedly unaware he was traveling to Nashville." Rumors floated around the media saying the teen planned to crash the plane into a Louisiana Hannah Montana concert. more ›

Hearing that Burbank's Bob Hope Airport might be grounding flights this morning, I headed over there at 5:30am. They were still allowing in the usual traffic, in spite of the fact that everyone was swerving all over the road in the dense fog. I almost got T-boned by a Flyaway shuttle. I spoke to a few passengers who were heading back to the parking structure after being told their flight to San Francisco was cancelled. more ›

ExperienceLA.com and Lonely Planet are running a community based Downtown photo contest. If you win, you're photo will be on the cover of the free guide that will distributed around LA and all over the world. And while you're Downtown shooting photos, drop by Pershing Square to go ice skating through the holidays. The tunnel on the 5 Freeway where a fiery crash killed three, shutting down the tunnel for over a month, reopened... more ›

After an extensive 7-year study by LAist about how celebrities choose to fly, we have come to conclusion that the superstars choose Southwest Airlines and the the stars of a past day or just the weird ones take United Airlines. Over the past 7-years, we have flown with: - Vince Vaughn on Southwest Airlines from LAX to Chicago Midway (boarded with the disabled and children/familes) - Philip Seymour Hoffman on Southwest Airlines from Burbank to... more ›

Around four o'clock this afternoon, a Southwest Airlines flight getting ready for takeoff at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport stopped on the runway. A passenger -- who may have been in his early 20s, and may have been drunk, may have been with a group of other drunk people -- said something that alarmed the flight attendants and made the pilot stop the plane without even returning to the gate. All passengers were evacuated safely. The troublemaker hasn't yet been identified in the media, because nobody's exactly sure what he did. more ›

No two words can better describe a decadent weekend for the Angeleno than Las Vegas. This LAist poster joined the masses at the Bob Hope (a/k/a Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena) Airport on Friday afternoon for a Southwest Airlines 3 PM cattle call to the city of Lost Wages. And we didn’t mind a bit. OK, maybe a little -- but we still love us the Bob Hope… more ›

The Los Angeles Times reports today that a Southwest Airlines ticketing lobby in Terminal 1 of LAX was evacuated yesterday when "a man was found to have a rocket launcher in his checked luggage." more ›