Taste Flav Will get Free Southwest Flights, After Spirit Airways Flare Up

Taste Flav‘s beef with Spirit Airways is making him a scorching commodity with a rival service — Southwest Airways has entered the chat and it comes bearing precious presents.

Sources near the rap icon/actuality TV star inform TMZ … Flav and his camp had been contacted by a Southwest honcho after they acquired wind of his Las Vegas airport rant after lacking a Spirit flight.

We’re informed the exec is a buddy of somebody on Flav’s group, and made him an give you’d suppose he merely cannot refuse — flying without spending a dime with Southwest each time he desires.

TMZ broke the story … the Public Enemy rapper misplaced his cool, when he was denied entry to his Spirit flight. He claimed the agent shut the door in his face, setting off a heated backwards and forwards.

Spirit investigated the incident and determined the client was proper — the airline refunded FF and upgraded him to “Gold”, its highest frequent flier tier.

Now that the mud has settled, Flav’s acquired choices! A rep tells us he is getting an outpouring of affection from flight attendants with a number of airways — together with Delta and American. Southwest even sweetened the pot, throwing in a buddy cross to go together with his free journey.

Flav has a very good historical past with Southwest — he performed honorary flight attendant throughout a previous flight into Vegas — so, perhaps the airline is within the driver’s seat for his enterprise.