Too pretty to fly?

That's the claim from a pair of 18-year-old best friends from Oldsmar who were escorted off a Southwest Airlines plane.

USF student Nisreen Swedberg and friend Sarah Williams claim the flight crew was rude to them from the moment they stepped onto the plane at Tampa International Airport on February 14.

Swedberg said she asked a flight attendant for a bottle of water and was told she could wait until the rest of the flight was served.

"And I patiently waited and then when they came around with water, they skipped me," Swedberg said.

At one point, Williams had to use the plane's bathroom. She saw another passenger in it, and when he hadn't come out 15 minutes later, she knocked on the door.

When he came out, Williams says the man came over to her seat and yelled a profanity at her. Williams admits she yelled a profanity back at him but was puzzled when she says the flight crew only questioned her.

"I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us," she said. "[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger."

Southwest defends the incident, saying the women caused a disruption on the flight.

When the plane landed in Los Angeles, the women were escorted off by four uniformed police officers and later questioned by the FBI.

Nearly two hours later, the women were released. No charges were filed.

Still, Williams and Swedberg say they were banned from all future Southwest Airlines flights, including their scheduled flight home to Tampa.

Swedberg spent $419.50 on a one-way return ticket and arrived at TIA on Monday. Williams is still in Los Angeles trying to find a cheaper flight home. She hopes to be back to Tampa by Saturday.

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• pretty
• fly
• tampa
• florida
• discrimination
• nisreen
• swedberg
• sarah
• williams
• southwest
• airlines

[truthsofwolf]

I noticed that this video was recorded using a toaster.

[atlbraves1983]

Get back in the kitchen and make me a sammich bitch.

[ndrwsrcht]

They are not serious right on every southwest flight everybody is treated the same even good looking people

[delorme9]

Being discrimminated because of you looks happens to ugly people too,How about when women call an ugly guy a pervert , a serial killer or a stalker because he's ugly but they swoon when they see Scott Peterson or Ted Bundy? Explain that

[whatsacraic]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You don't tell people you're pretty. It's a "pretty" biased and conceited thing to say. Personally I don't think your that great. Get over yourself.

[brokenleoheart]

thei look liek bitches who are obnoxious on the plane

[teradynes]

Conceited White bitches.

[goosed1]

Ha ha ha ha. The brunette isn't that pretty.

[muskakid34900]

they prolly never had a job just shoppin till they drop all damn day

[flashman2012]

high maintenance isn't enough to describe those women. Their plane was broken so they had to use the peasants planes,