为了提高大家的英语水平,吧主将从今天开始发一些英语贴,来源是国外的门户网站,出处将会全部注明,以方便大家浏览其他文章.http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/today/sky.htmSouthwest bars woman over T-shirt obscenityA Washington state woman says she intends to press a civil rights lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for barring her from one of its flights because of a message on her T-shirt. Lorrie Heasley, a lumber saleswoman, was wearing a shirt bearing the pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice along with a phrase mimicking the recent film, Meet the Fockers, the Reno Gazette-Journal reports. Heasley, who wore the shirt without incident on the first leg of her flight from Los Angeles to Reno, says she wore it as a "gag" to amuse her parents, who were to pick her up at the airport in Portland, Ore. "I just thought it was hilarious," said Heasley, who felt she should have the right to wear it. "I have cousins in Iraq and other relatives going to war," she said. "Here we are trying to free another country and I have to get off an airplane in midflight over a T-shirt. That's not freedom." But Southwest officials say their hand was forced when several passengers complained about the shirt and its obscene wording. Heasley and her husband ultimately rented a car in Reno and drove to Seattle. She says she has contacted lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and that she wants Southwest to pay for the last leg of her trip and for expenses associated with for the drive from Reno to Portland. Posted 7:45 a.m.NWA may try to return 115 planes: Northwest is seeking bankruptcy court approval to renegotiate the leases on — or possibly even return — as many as 115 of its planes. The Detroit Free-Press says a judge could decide as early as Friday about whether Northwest could return 13 jets immediately. The fate of another 102 jets could depend on the airline's ability to negotiate terms with its lenders. The Free-Press writes a "Northwest spokesman declined to say how many planes the airline really wants to keep if it could pay less for them and reduce its monumental aircraft payments and fuel bills." That's something has irked creditors, who don't want the carrier to have the right to return the 102 additional jets if the creditors balk at lower payments for the aircraft. Northwest has said it's looking to bring its fleet size in line with both what it can afford and with the number of customers it expects to serve. Posted 8:45 a.m.GAO: Bankruptcy may not be so bad: Despite complaints to the contrary, "there is no clear evidence" that airlines operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection "harm the industry by contributing to overcapacity or underpricing their competitors." That's according to Air Transport World (ATW), which cites a study by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), the agency the serves as the investigative and research arm of Congress. In fact, the GAO study found that the liquidation of airlines "had only a very temporary or negligible effect" in reducing overcapacity since other airlines tend to rush in to fill the void. In what ATW says may be one of the report's more controversial findings, the GAO speculates that companies who rent to or do business with airlines are happy with the industry's current capacity levels. "Those companies further up the value chain face less competition and are able to impose higher costs on airlines," ATW cites the report as saying. "Accordingly, these companies have a vested interest in ensuring that airlines survive and that capacity [does] not leave the industry." Posted 9:30 a.m.