{"id":19672,"date":"2026-03-06T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/airline-threatens-to-remove-ban-passengers-who-dont-use-headphones\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:22:21","slug":"airline-threatens-to-remove-ban-passengers-who-dont-use-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/airline-threatens-to-remove-ban-passengers-who-dont-use-headphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline threatens to remove, ban passengers who don&#8217;t use headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to music or watching a movie without headphones could now get you removed from a United Airlines flight and potentially permanently banned, according to the airline&rsquo;s updated passenger guidelines. The airline&rsquo;s &ldquo;Contract of Carriage&rdquo; rules were reportedly updated in late February to include passengers &ldquo;who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5770792-no-headphones-united-flight\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to music or watching a movie without headphones could now get you removed from a United Airlines flight and potentially permanently banned, according to the airline&rsquo;s updated passenger guidelines. The airline&rsquo;s &ldquo;Contract of Carriage&rdquo; rules were reportedly updated in late February to include passengers &ldquo;who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}