A Southwest Airlines pilot reportedly used an anti-Joe Biden chant during an announcement to passeng

[Eugene]

Source: Business Insider

A Southwest Airlines pilot reportedly used an anti-Joe Biden chant during an announcement to passengers with an AP journalist onboard

Thomas Pallini
Sat, October 30, 2021, 1:29 PM·3 min read

A Southwest Airlines flight on Saturday turned political when one of its pilots finished an announcement to passengers with "Let's Go, Brandon," a chant used to insult President Joe Biden.

"On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers," AP's Colleen Long wrote in an article published on Saturday.

Long was a passenger onboard the flight for a vacation, she explained in a Twitter thread, and was almost removed from the aircraft after unsuccessfully trying to get the pilot to comment for her story on the topic.

Colleen Long
@ctlong1
TFW you’re trying to go on vacation and then the pilot says the very thing you’re working on over the loud speaker and you have to try to get him comment but then almost get removed from plane.

apnews.com
How 'Let's Go Brandon' became code for insulting Joe Biden

10:48 AM · Oct 30, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Link to tweet

"Also in defense of airline (sic) I was asking them to open locked cock pit (sic) and probably sounded insane!" she wrote in a follow-up tweet.

Additional information about the specific flight is unknown. When asked for comment, Southwest told Long and Insider: "The Southwest Team takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, and respectful environment for the millions of Customers who fly with the airline each year and behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive is not condoned."

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/southwest-airlines-pilot-reportedly-used-172940102.html

[CrispyQ]

1. The stupidity is boggling.

Let's go Brandon. It isn't clever. It isn't funny. It doesn't make any sense. It' s like a bunch of kids got together, made up a secret language, & now they think it's a big deal when they use it around the adults.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. It's a cowards move

They want to say “F Biden” but don’t have the guts. So they play their little “lol triggering Dems” game.

[Bev54]

10. Yes let them play games but it has no place on an airplane, by a pilot

There are people of all stripes on a flight, and it is time to get politics out of every bloody aspect of people's lives. This guy has no place being in his position.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

12. Agree

[lame54]

19. If a store manager said it over the p.a....

You could ditch your cart and walk out of the store

Not so much on an airplane

[BlackSkimmer]

11. Seems to be working.

I’ve lost count on the number of threads about this stupid saying.

[Casady1]

7. It came from a nascar

Race where brandon won. In the background the fans were yelling Eff joe biden and the announcer said they saying “lets go brandon”

[CrispyQ]

8. Thank you!

I searched yesterday for how the phrase started & couldn't find anything. At least that makes a little sense. They are still like children, though. Dangerous, full-grown children who are okay asking when can they use their guns.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/10/27/charlie-kirk-denounces-violence-mh-orig.cnn

[rockfordfile]

15. To funny shows how desperate they are. They're un-American

Nascar has been dead for years now.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Awesome career move dude!

And fuck Southwest unless and until they fire this guy.

[panader0]

13. I wrote them a pretty harsh email yesterday when I heard of this flight.

It was Friday from Houston to Albuquerque. I told them I wouldn't fly Southwest until that
pilot was fired. Kind of a hollow threat because I never fly anymore.

[BeyondGeography]

16. Only fly as needed now, ie not much

But you did well. Any time someone is motivated enough to call, their alarm bells go off. Their sacred brand is taking a hit.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. 🚬🕳👨🏻‍✈️❗️

[marble falls]

5. I wouldn't want to fly with that pilot.

[tanyev]

6. Very unprofessional.

He wants to pull that crap, he can work flying charter flights for rich Trumplicans.

[ratchiweenie]

9. We need to contact Southwest and insist they publish the name of the pilot so we can make sure

we don't fly with him.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Pilot supports Trump who supports anti-mask passengers.

Dumb asses don’t see what they don’t want to see.

[radius777]

17. Cons lack skill at political satire.

Remember their lame 'OK sign' thing ... it's the 4chan basement dweller type of humor that only they find edgy.

The pilot should be fired as what he did amounts to shouting fire in a crowded theatre. His job is to serve the public and maintain safety in an apolitical fashion, not rile people up.

[XanaDUer2]

18. Unprofessional

No one in a cabin should give a shit about your political beliefs