This is why I love Southwest Airlines

[Yonivore]

'They can’t go anywhere without me and I wasn’t going anywhere without you': Pilot delays plane so passenger can say farewell to his murdered grandson (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346716/Airline-pilot-holds-plane-family-murdered-toddler.html)

[boutons_deux]

This isn't Southwest corporate policy, just one pilot.

12 minutes? Not a very impressive delay, round-off delay, seating delay, taxiing delay. An hour would be impressive.

[MiamiHeat]

There used to be a time when this was standard practice in America.

Now, delaying your plane for 12 minutes for a grieving man, possibly interfering with company profits, is "Headline worthy".....

sad state of affairs. our culture needs a rewind. the past few decades have done horrible harm to people in this country.

[LnGrrrR]

Nice move by the pilot. I'm not surprised that security didn't give a shit.

[George Gervin's Afro]

what a piece of sh*t madrid is... I hope he lives a miserable and painful life from here on out.

[TeyshaBlue]

what a piece of sh*t madrid is... I hope he lives a miserable and painful life from here on out.

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