Posted on 07/30/2018 5:39:24 PM PDT by Simon Green
When gay businessman David Cooley boarded Alaska Airlines flight 1407 from Los Angeles to New York this past weekend, he expected to enjoy the airline's top-rated service and the amenities that accompanied his Premium Class ticket. Instead, however, he said he and his travel companion were subjected to "humiliation" instead.
"I have never been so discriminated against while traveling before," Cooley, owner of iconic Los Angeles gay bar The Abbey, wrote in a public Facebook post. He said he and his travel companion were "removed" from their flight "to give preferential treatment to a straight couple."
"After my traveling companion and I had been seated in our assigned seats for a while, we were approached by the flight attendant and my companion was asked to move from his premium seat to coach, so a couple could sit together," Cooley wrote. "I explained that we were a couple and wanted to sit together. He was given a choice to either give up the premium seat and move to coach or get off the plane."
Cooley and his travel companion decided they "could not bear the feeling of humiliation for an entire cross-country flight," and so they deplaned.
“I cannot believe that an airline in this day and age would give a straight couple preferential treatment over a gay couple and go so far as to ask us to leave,” he added.
At the end of his Facebook post, Cooley called on LGBTQ people to boycott Alaska Airlines.
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FAKE
zero f***s given
This story is gayer than a $3 bill
I doubt this is true. Too bad.
No way. They may have been bumped which is BS and the airlines suck, but it’s not because they are gay.
Bull.
I doubt very much that any crew member on that airplane, in the year 2018, said any such thing or even intimated it. We're not being told the whole story here, guaranteed.
I don’t believe it.
Getting bumped happens to all kinds of people, gay or straight, with airlines.
Smells like BS
Yeah, total B.S.
I wonder what really happened, (If they were even on the plane). Performing lewd acts and separated to keep from disgusting the people around them?
I’m calling this a fake. If the “companion” had bought a premium class ticket he couldn’t just be bumped to coach.
Well, if the LGBTQUIDOSPMFN crowd is boycotting Alaska Airlines, you can bet they’ll see a spike in bookings.
I’ll bet that there is a lot more to this story———it’s baloney as written.
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OK. Which “couple” paid premium for BOTH seats?
That, IMO, will be the difference in this tale.
So what, the airline is trying to prevent vaseline stains on the chairs.
I thought LMNOPQ love to bump
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