US Airways Won't Fire Anyone for Porno Tweet

'It was an honest mistake'

Give US Airways credit for not doing the knee-jerk thing most any other corporation would have done, instead circling the wagons while trying to make sense out of its pornographic tweet from Monday. The brand late yesterday revealed it wouldn't fire anyone over an image of a nude woman performing a sex act with a toy airplane.

"It was an honest mistake. It was in an attempt to flag the tweet as inappropriate," explained US Airways spokesman Matt Miller, in a New York Post story

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