Posted on 09/16/2007 6:11:32 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
And since most of these people cannot reach much of their body when they wash, flab isn't the only thing that oozes.
Shouldn’t you be over here? ;p
I fly Southwest as long as it’s a short and non-stop flight i.e.: something they can’t screw up. From where I live I usually fly to Salt Lake, Portland, Seattle, Reno, and Las Vegas (occasionally to Oakland now that they fly there as well). Anything beyond that I do what I can to avoid them.
However, I’m also looking at any other suggestions from all y’all as to which airline they prefer.
If the plane was booked full with no extra seats when he showed up, should they have told him he could not take the flight he had booked but would have to wait for the next plane and get 2 seats?
The airline is going to have to start asking a passengers weight and hight when they make the reservation and that is going to be invasion of privacy and people are going to be angry about that. What should the airline do?
Since it appears Chica there desired to wander around the plane in her negligee, SWA was very polite to offer her a blanket. For all they knew, she was tired.
I would have said, "Please don't eat me".
Based upon my most recent experience with this web site, I’ve decided to abstain from comments about those allowed to remain obese by this gov’t. I can only imagine their time will come much as it’s done for those who smoke legally available tobacco products. And as the rampant tyranny of feminization of this society continues, I’d expect to see severe constrictions imposed on establishments that sell liquor by the drink. It’s all about making life safe for Bambi and her soccer mom at everyone elses expense. Thankfully, some of us can simply move.
Wait wait wait wait wait hold UP a minute.
You can buy liquor by the drink?
Does he even fit into an airline seat?
If southwst called it fraud he would be sueing them for enough money to pay his lunch tab (which may be the size of nations GNP). He had flown with them before, there isn't any reason to believe he knew this was their policy, and while this is on their webite somewhere, not something they publicize.
If the plane was booked full with no extra seats when he showed up, should they have told him he could not take the flight he had booked but would have to wait for the next plane and get 2 seats?
Most likely, yea, thats probably the position I would have taken. The policy that southwestern has, would have actually applied at that point in time, and would have been under the proper circumstances. Here, it wasn't under those circumstances.
The airline is going to have to start asking a passengers weight and hight when they make the reservation and that is going to be invasion of privacy and people are going to be angry about that. What should the airline do?
This is safe to say, the airlines will not ever be able to start asking for height or weight, before being blocked. They still have problems even with medical questions.
What the airline should have done here was simple, if they had the extra (unsold seat), not force him to buy it. If the flight was full, and he had to buy an extra seat, bump him onto the next flight.
That said this is all moot, in an earlier thread, it looks like southwest has some kind of policy of giving refunds if they do force you to buy an extra ticket, and it turns out not to be necessary, so he will probably get his money back. He may not be able to see his feet ever again, but he will probably get the money he spent on the 2nd ticket back.
he probably was trying to do a last minute purchase to “slip in” at the last minute to avoid the double seat requirement.
It seems like he did NOT know, since they never enforced the policy against him (which they should have, but didn't).
That said, as I said before, I could not care less about his being a fatty, or his urge to eat more food then a country. I don't care if it saved his life, or if he decided that he should eat more bacon or walk around in high heels and hope to strike oil.
To me, an airline company had unsold tickets, that were not going anywhere, and saw his fat rear end, and decided to force him to buy an extra ticket that would not have been sold for reasons that (according to the website, as sited by a previous poster) will now get him a refund anyway. This argument is now moot, since the airlines has a policy in place and it looks like it will help him.
To me, his life, and his fatty way, was not the issue, it never was, it was the idea of an airline forcing you to pay more because they believe you are getting extra value for tickets they failed to sell.
On come on, he KNEW he had to force himself into the seat. I am not obese and I KNOW about the 2 seat policy. He KNEW, he just had skated through and had not been called on it, until this time.
Never have, which is why I asked - thanks for the explanation!
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