Flavor Flav Can Fly for Free on Southwest Following Spirit Airlines Drama

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Rapper Flavor Flav attends “Shine” Talk Show Premiere at Raleigh Studios Screening Rooms on September 09, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images)

*Flavor Flav can reportedly fly for free with Southwest Airlines after his beef with Spirit Airlines. 

The airline has reportedly offered the rapper free flights whenever he wants after “a Southwest honcho after they got wind of his Las Vegas airport rant after missing a Spirit flight,” TMZ writes. 

We reported previously that the Hip-hop icon recently missed his flight to Las Vegas and was caught on camera exchanging heated words with a Spirit Airlines gate agent. 

According to TMZ, the incident occurred about a week ago at Harry Reid International Airport. The Public Enemy rapper was sitting near the gate waiting to catch a Spirit flight to Detroit. Apparently, Flav was preoccupied with his laptop and chatting on the phone and missed when the jetway door closed. When he finally realized he was late to board, Flav pleaded with the agent but she refused to open the jetway door. As such, a fiery argument between the artist and the Spirit employee ensued.

READ MORE: Flavor Flav Exchanges ‘Harsh Words’ with Spirit Airlines Agent After Missing Flight | Video

“Sources close to Flav tell us he commonly waits to board after everyone else because people want to take pictures with him … and he doesn’t want to hold up the boarding process,” TMZ writes. 

Flav told the outlet “Spirit Airlines shut the door on me while I was in line to board. I was upset and said some harsh words to the gate agent. I apologize to those who witnessed me acting out of character. I do not apologize to Spirit Airlines or the gate agent.”

Spirit reportedly investigated the incident and decided Flav was right and upgraded him to “Gold”, its highest frequent flier tier,” per TMZ.

While the incident has been seemingly settled, Flav has received an outpouring of support from flight attendants with several airlines — including Delta and American. 

Flav played an honorary flight attendant on a Southwest flight in the past, TMZ reports. 

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