Legendary hip-hop artiste Sandra “Pepa” Denton was recently kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight and had to cope with all of these problems.
Pepa was going from Las Vegas to Nashville on Monday, “a flight she takes frequently because it’s the only direct one,” according to TMZ.
However, the flight attendant informed her that although she had paid for two tickets, she was not allowed to have both.
Pepa needed the additional seat because she was involved in a car accident in 2018 that left her with a knee injury.
She wears a knee brace. She used a wheelchair greeting, and her ticket was labeled “disabled.”
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The rapper from Push It reportedly told the source that the flight attendant told her that “she wasn’t in a cast, so she wasn’t allowed to have both seats.”
She did, however, ultimately succeed in keeping the two seats, as she was wearing her knee brace.
A little while later, a man announced that he was heading to a funeral and asked for Pepa’s second seat.
He and Denton got into a fight about the seat, and other people joined in.
“I asked the man whether he would swear he was really going to a funeral, and he refused”, according to Pepa.
She claimed that the flight attendants attempted to relocate her to the emergency row but she is not permitted to sit in that row since she is unable to help in the event of a true emergency.
After he took the seat, she called her assistant, who advised her to take a video of the event.
Pepa was removed from the flight a few minutes later, with no explanation given by Southwest.
“Because they didn’t feel safe flying with her,” and that’s why they did so.Pepa, though, insisted that she didn’t record while flying.
Fortunately, Southwest offered her a $2,500 refund for her two seats when she rescheduled her meeting in Nashville.
She does, however, lose the $300 for the wheelchair greeter and the $500 for the unutilized vehicle service.
To preserve the safety and comfort of other passengers, Southwest withheld Pepa’s boarding, citing her refusal to comply with crew member orders, as stated by its employees in a statement to TMZ.
The rapper is “looking into her legal options” in relation to potential “disability-related flyer violations.”
