{"id":345983,"date":"2026-01-10T05:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tsa-admits-cannot-process-refunds-while-fining-southwest-48-million\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:04:21","slug":"tsa-admits-it-cant-process-refunds-while-fining-southwest-48m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=345983","title":{"rendered":"TSA Admits It Can&#8217;t Process Refunds While Fining Southwest $48M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"51830\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/transportation-security-administration\/\"  >Transportation Security Administration<\/a><\/span> (TSA) is claiming they aren&#8217;t equipped to process <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tsa-passenger-screenings-evolved\/\" >9\/11 security fee<\/a> refunds, while at the same time trying to defend the $48 million penalty against Dallas-based <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span>, which has also failed to refund the same fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines faces a $48M penalty from the TSA, but there&#8217;s a twist in the tale. Find out what the agency admits it can&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[396,476,7098,645,643,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-fees","category-southwest-airlines","category-tsa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345984,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345983\/revisions\/345984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}