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By Lynda Johnson Mar 10, 2008

Southwest Airlines has been in the news of late from several female passengers that have said that the airline discriminates against scantily clad passengers and young attractive women. Just last month two teens tried to sell the public on the idea that they were "too pretty to fly".

Sexy Passengers Least of Southwest Airlines Worries: $10M Fine

The teens, Nisreen Swedberg and Sarah Williams, did a little media tour telling a tale on how they had been booted from a flight because they were young and beautiful. The airlines said that was nonsense and the girls were misbehaving and using vulgar language.

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Many believed that the teens were just looking for publicity and doing nothing more than trying to emulate the success of Kyla Ebbert. She parlayed her skimpy outfit and her conflict with a Southwest airlines flight attendant into a racy Playboy pictorial. The airline has of course denied these allegations of conflicts with attractive female passengers across the board and right now that appears to be the least of their worries.

They have been fined a whopping $10 million for operating 46 planes without performing mandatory tests on small cracks in the fuselage, reports claim. According to a report from CNN documents submitted by Federal Aviation Administration inspectors to congressional investigators allege the airline flew at least 117 of its planes in violation of mandatory safety checks.

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Southwest has a tremendous safety record and CEO Gary Kelly late last week said the airline’s operations were "safer today than we’ve ever been." They say that safety was never an issue on their flights.

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