kiki Billie Joe Armstrong Kicked Off Airplane
September 6, 2011 | 9:43am
Not everybody was sitting pretty over the
holiday weekend. Green Day frontman Billie Joe
Armstrong says wearing his pants too low kept
him off his Southwest Airlines flight.
Armstrong aired his frustration in a Twitter
message **. "Just got kicked off a southwest
flight because my pants sagged too low!" he
wrote Thursday night. "What the ****? No joke!"
As ABC [Link] reports, the singer for the San
Francisco Bay Area pop-punk band was boarding
a plane from Oakland to Burbank, CA, when a
flight attendant came up and said to pull up his
pants. According to an ABC producer who was on
the flight, Armstrong at first brushed off the
request, saying, "Don't you have better things to
worry about than that?" After the flight
attendant reiterated her instruction and warned
Armstrong he could be kicked off the plane,
Armstrong reportedly said, "I'm just trying to get
to my ****ing seat." At that point, Armstrong
and a traveling companion were given the boot.
Southwest Airlines quickly replied to Armstrong's
Twitter complaint with its own message **.
"Very sorry for your experience tonight, someone
from our Customer Relations Team will reach
out to you to get more details," the company
said.
Armstrong ultimately opted to take the next
flight, Southwest later told ABC. "As soon as we
became aware of what had happened, we
reached out to apologize for this customer's
experience," a Southwest representative said. "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."
Last month, Green Day treated fans in Costa
Mesa, CA, to one of the band's smallest club
gigs in years.
September 6, 2011 | 9:43am
Not everybody was sitting pretty over the
holiday weekend. Green Day frontman Billie Joe
Armstrong says wearing his pants too low kept
him off his Southwest Airlines flight.
Armstrong aired his frustration in a Twitter
message **. "Just got kicked off a southwest
flight because my pants sagged too low!" he
wrote Thursday night. "What the ****? No joke!"
As ABC [Link] reports, the singer for the San
Francisco Bay Area pop-punk band was boarding
a plane from Oakland to Burbank, CA, when a
flight attendant came up and said to pull up his
pants. According to an ABC producer who was on
the flight, Armstrong at first brushed off the
request, saying, "Don't you have better things to
worry about than that?" After the flight
attendant reiterated her instruction and warned
Armstrong he could be kicked off the plane,
Armstrong reportedly said, "I'm just trying to get
to my ****ing seat." At that point, Armstrong
and a traveling companion were given the boot.
Southwest Airlines quickly replied to Armstrong's
Twitter complaint with its own message **.
"Very sorry for your experience tonight, someone
from our Customer Relations Team will reach
out to you to get more details," the company
said.
Armstrong ultimately opted to take the next
flight, Southwest later told ABC. "As soon as we
became aware of what had happened, we
reached out to apologize for this customer's
experience," a Southwest representative said. "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."
Last month, Green Day treated fans in Costa
Mesa, CA, to one of the band's smallest club
gigs in years.
