{"id":155756,"date":"2024-12-08T04:27:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-discrimination-lawsuit-drags-on\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T04:27:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T18:27:21","slug":"southwest-airlines-hispanic-free-flight-program-discrimination-lawsuit-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=155756","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines\u2019 Hispanic Free Flight Program Discrimination Lawsuit Drags On"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US District Judge has ruled that Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> must face a discrimination lawsuit regarding its program to provide free flights to Hispanic students. The lawsuit was filed back in May by the American Alliance for Equal Rights, which claims the \u00a1L\u00e1nzate! Travel Award Program unfairly discriminated based on race and violated federal civil rights laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The carrier opened its \u00a1L\u00e1nzate! Travel Award Program to all races after the May lawsuit was filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,402,8429,9661,719,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-news","category-discrimination","category-diversity","category-lawsuit","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t