Southwest could start selling booze on flights again this spring. It'd come after a record year in unruly passenger behavior.
This week, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly says the carrier is looking to resume alcohol service"late in the first quarter, maybe early in the second quarter," according to aThe carrier is bolstering its safe distancing measures before resuming the service, Kelly indicated in the call on Thursday.revealed it received 5,981 unruly passenger reports for the whole of 2021. According to the FAA, more than two-thirds of the incidents in 2021 were due to disputes over face masks.
Southwest Airlines' flight attendant union, TWU Local 556, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.in June last year that they hoped that the limits on alcohol service would stay. "When we have problems that escalate, they would be escalated ten times more if they were fueled by alcohol," an anonymous flight attendant told Insider at the time.Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.
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