The passenger who was caught on video attacking a flight attendant during a Southwest Airlines flight has been permanently banned from the airline.
According to The New York Post, the woman was captured in a now-viral video punching a flight attendant and knocking out two of her teeth during a flight from Sacramento to San Diego last Sunday.
The unruly passenger identified as 28-year-old Vyvianna Quinonez, attacked the flight attendant who repeatedly admonished her and her family for not wearing masks after the short flight landed in San Diego.
Southwest Airlines officials announced that Quinonez would be barred from the airline permanently in a memo to their flight attendants.
Sonya Lacore, Southwest’s vice president of in-flight operations, spoke directly to Flight Attendants concerns in a company memo saying, “As we’ve communicated previously, we do have a process to permanently restrict passengers from traveling on Southwest, and please know that the passenger involved in the most recent incident has been advised that she may no longer fly on Southwest Airlines.”
Quinonez now faces a felony charge of battery causing serious bodily injury for her violent attack, the Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department said.
New video shows an altercation between Vyvianna Quinonez and a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. A union representative says the flight attendant lost two teeth when she was struck. Quinonez who was arrested on battery charges claims it was self-defense. pic.twitter.com/aCAHGHxF5b
— CBS 8 San Diego (@CBS8) May 26, 2021
