Nisreen Swedberg and Sarah Williams, two 18-year old girls from Oldsmar, FL, say they were discriminated upon on a Southwest Airlines flight because they were "too pretty to fly".
Swedberg, a student at USF, and Williams claim the flight crew was very rude to them from the very instant they boarded the plane at Tampa International Airport on February 14.
Swedberg said she asked a flight attendant for a bottle of water and was told she could wait until the rest of the flight was served.
At one point during the flight, Williams needed to use the plane's bathroom. She saw another passenger in it, and when he hadn't come out 15 minutes later, she knocked on the door.
When he came out, Williams says the man came over to her seat and yelled a profanity at her. Williams admits she yelled a profanity back at him but was dumbfounded when she says the flight crew only questioned her.
“I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us,” she said. “[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger.”
Southwest defends the incident, saying the women caused a disruption on the flight.
When the plane landed in Los Angeles, the women were met by four uniformed police officers and later questioned by the FBI.
The women were released nearly two hours later. No charges were filed.
Williams and Swedberg say they were banned from all future Southwest Airlines flights, including their scheduled flight home to Tampa.
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