Flavor Flav‘s beef with Spirit Airlines is making him a scorching commodity with a rival service — Southwest Airlines has entered the chat and it comes bearing beneficial items.
Sources near the rap icon/actuality TV star inform TMZ … Flav and his camp had been contacted by a Southwest honcho after they bought wind of his Las Vegas airport rant after lacking a Spirit flight.
We’re informed the exec is a pal of somebody on Flav’s staff, and made him an give you’d suppose he merely cannot refuse — flying without cost with Southwest at any time when he desires.
TMZ broke the story … the Public Enemy rapper misplaced his cool, when he was denied entry to his Spirit flight. He claimed the agent shut the door in his face, setting off a heated backwards and forwards.
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Spirit investigated the incident and determined the shopper was proper — the airline refunded FF and upgraded him to “Gold”, its highest frequent flier tier.
Now that the mud has settled, Flav’s bought choices! A rep tells us he is getting an outpouring of affection from flight attendants with a number of airways — together with Delta and American. Southwest even sweetened the pot, throwing in a buddy move to go together with his free experience.
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Flav has an excellent historical past with Southwest — he performed honorary flight attendant throughout a previous flight into Vegas — so, perhaps the airline is within the driver’s seat for his enterprise.
Either method, he is popping out because the winner after that Spirit rant.