Green Day singer kicked offflight

Mon 5th Sep, 2011 in International News

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight last week after the flight attendant decided they didn’t like the fit of his pants.

Armstrong told his Twitter followers that he “got kicked off a Southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the fuck? No joke!”

According to a TV news producer who was on the same flight Armstrong was told by an attendant to hike his pants higher and when he grumbled that surely the flight attendant should have “better things to do than worry about that” he was ejected for his
refusal to comply.

Southwest has since released a statement saying Armstrong was allowed onto the next flight and the “As soon as we became aware of what had happened, we reached out to apologise for this customer’s experience. He elected to take the next flight. We followed up with this customer and involved Employees to get more details and, in our latest conversations, understand from the customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction.”