Woman Thrown Off US Airways Flight For Taking Photo of Rude Employee

Note to self:  Don't snap photos of rude airline employees, especially if they work for US Airways.  They don't like it, and they have ways of making your life miserable.  A Miami woman learned that lesson the hard way.

A Miami commercial photographer was escorted off a US Airways plane after she snapped a photo of an employee’s name tag at Philadelphia International Airport Friday.

Sandy DeWitt says the employee was rude to several passengers in the boarding area, so she snapped a photo of the woman's name tag with her iPhone. She says she planned to include it in a complaint to US Airways.

Before the plane took off, DeWitt says the employee ordered her to delete the photo from the phone.  DeWitt says the photo too dark to be useful, but she deleted it anyway.

But that wasn't the end of it.  DeWitt says the employee told the pilot that DeWitt was a “security risk.”  Next thing DeWitt knew, she and her husband were escorted off the plane, and a US Airways manager told her she would not be allowed to fly.

But -- even though she was supposedly a security risk -- DeWitt and her husband were able to get a flight home to Florida on another airline -- Southwest.

via Woman Escorted Off US Airways Flight For Snapping Photo | Pixiq.

Sandy DeWitt isn't the only traveler who has had issues with US Airways. Check out Tracy Reed's story.

DeWitt's experience may help explain why Business Insider ranked US Airways sixth in a list of the 19 Most Hated Companies in America.