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DALLAS — Southwest Airlines suspended a pilot whose disparaging comments about gays and older flight attendants were transmitted over an air-traffic control frequency.
The pilot was talking with another crew member and apparently didn’t realize his microphone was on.
Southwest said Wednesday that the pilot was reinstated after going through diversity training.
The incident happened in March and was reported this week by television station KPRC in Houston. Southwest declined to identify the pilot.
The president of the Southwest flight attendants’ union local said his group asked its attorneys Wednesday to consider filing a bias complaint with the federal government.
