Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Tossed Off Plane For Baggy Pants

Posted by | September 2, 2011 21:51 | Filed under: Top Stories


Armstrong was flying Southwest from Oakland to Burbank.

An ABC7 news producer who was on the same flight told the station that a flight attendant approached Armstrong as the plane was getting ready to take off and asked him to hike his pants higher. The producer, Cindy Qiu, says Armstrong initially responded by asking the attendant if there weren’t “better things to do than worry about that?”

But the attendant persisted and told Armstrong he could be ejected for his refusal to comply. When Armstrong insisted he was just trying to get to his seat, he and a traveling companion were taken off the plane.

It seems Armstrong and the airline made up, and Southwest issued this statement:

“As soon as we became aware of what had happened, we reached out to apologize for this Customer’s experience,” the statement read. “He elected to take the next flight. We followed up with this Customer and involved Employees to get more details and, in our latest conversations, understand from the Customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction.”

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By: Alan

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