It’s been a rough few weeks for Southwest Airlines. The bad news started in early October when the airline was forced to cancel over 1,800 flights one weekend — 24% of its total weekend business — due to a weather event and staff shortage. From there, news broke a couple of weeks later of a pilot making politically divisive statements during a flight, causing visible fear and disturbances among passengers. Just days later, a different pilot was accused of allegedly assaulting a flight attendant in a fight over COVID-19 masks.
And now comes news that another passenger may have been racially profiled by a flight attendant, who suspected a white woman traveling with her Black daughter may have been up to no good.
CNN’s Jenn Selva and Gregory Lemos reported that “a California woman is accusing Southwest Airlines of racial profiling, saying she was accused of human trafficking while traveling with her biracial daughter.”
