While Southwest Airlines generally has a good reputation, not so for Sandra "Pepa" Denton who says shew was left grounded in Vegas this AM after a Southwest Airlines crew deemed her a safety risk on their flight!
The singer says she was on a flight from Las Vegas to Nashville for a meeting -- a flight she takes frequently because it's the only direct one. But due to a previous knee injury from a 2018 car crash, she paid for 2 seats and used the services of a greeter for wheelchair assistance. Once on the plane a flight attendant informed her she wasn't allowed to have both seats because she wasn't in a cast. She was wearing a knee brace, though, because of the knee injury.
After some back and forth, the FA allowed Pepa to keep the two seats she had paid for, as her knee brace was in her possession. But then a man arrived and asked Pepa to give him her 2nd seat, claiming he was headed to a funeral. She asked the man if he would swear he was truly going to a funeral, and he refused. Somehow, he still got the seat. So she called her assistant on the phone and suggested she should be recording the whole ordeal but after a few minutes, she was removed from the flight with no reason given. One individual said she was recording...but Pepa says she was on the phone, not video recording. The airline said she was removed because she was recording and they didn't feel safe flying with her -- although, for the record, Pepa says she never actually recorded on the plane. Here she is telling her side of the story to TMZ.
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