Five things that could get you kicked off a plane

You with the saggy pants, off the plane. That’s been a mantra of sorts this summer at more than one airline. Most recent case in point: Green Day vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong.

“Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the [expletive]? No joke!” Armstrong (@BJA official) tweeted last Thursday of the Oakland-Burbank flight. Southwest (@SouthwestAir) tweeted back “Very sorry for your experience tonight, someone from our Customer Relations Team will reach out to you to get more details.” And with that, Armstrong was put on the next available flight.

Things didn’t go so smoothly for college football player Deshon Marman in June. He was booted from a U.S. Airways flight in San Francisco supposedly for refusing to hitch up his pants after a crew member asked him to do so. He was arrested at the time but no charges were filed, according to sfgate.com.

So what really gets you kicked off a flight? FareCompare recently chronicled what caused some folks to be dragged out of their seats.

--Dressing provocatively: Airlines sort of explain what crosses the line in their contracts of carriage. JetBlue and Southwest, for example, cite clothing that’s “lewd, obscene, or patently offensive.”

“The airlines leave the judgment of what’s lewd, obscene, offensive or inappropriate to their individual employees with no apparent specific guidelines as to what is, or is not permitted,” Ned Levi writes at Consumer Traveler. “In my opinion, their rules are overly broad and poorly defined. That’s a recipe for unequal and inappropriate application of them, which is precisely what’s been happening.”

--Using profanity.

--Refusing to stop texting -- or using your phone -- when instructed to do so. On Monday, a man on a Southwest flight pulling into El Paso refused to turn off his cellphone. He was arrested, according to the Associated Press.

--Being intoxicated.

--Being too big for the seat. Two words: Kevin Smith.