A 23-year-old Hooters waitress was asked to leave the flight by a Southwest Airlines employee for wearing a miniskirt that he found "too inappropriate" to fly. Kyla Ebbert was on a plane to Tucson from San Diego, two months ago, when a Southwest airlines customer representative approached her telling she would have to change her outfit if she wants to fly.

A 42-year-old man in central Kentucky was accused of exposing his genitals on a Frontier Airlines flight from Louisville to Denver. The man faces trial in October on allegation of obscene and indecent exposure on an aircraft. According to documents filed in the U. S. District Court in Denver, suspect Alan Michael Froula pleaded not guilty Tuesday.

Continental Airlines Inc. is offering a group of passengers special travel vouchers. The coupons are not, however, part of any kind of promotional strategy - they're compensation for what passengers endured on a Continental trans-Atlantic flight last week. Things went wrong on Flight 71 right from the beginning when it took off June 13 from Amsterdam bound for Newark, N. J. The pilot decided to land the plane in Shannon, Ireland, after passengers complained of blockage in the lavatories.

A Japan-bound Vietnam Airlines plane was forced to remain grounded for nearly four hours after a passenger spotted a white mouse on the plane. The aviation authorities suspect the mouse might have hitched a ride aboard the plane in the hand luggage or pocket of one of the passengers and eventually escaped. The Boeing 777 from the central city of Da Nang landed at the Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport late Saturday and was scheduled to fly to Japan but the flight was delayed after a passenger aboard the plane reported the airplane crew of the mouse.

Filipino coffee traders called on villagers in Mountain Province to stop capturing and eating civet cats (Paradoxurus phippinensis) because a decline in the cat population would cause a decline in the supply of one of the world's most expensive coffee varieties. Civet cats eat ripe coffee berries, and local coffee traders gather the beans from their droppings to produce the most expensive coffee varieties in the world. The civet cat, locally known as motit or alamid, is a nocturnal animal that roams the forests of northern Philippines and dwells on rocks where fruit-bearing trees grow nearby.