Southwest is a joke. Stopped flying them years ago.
Cha-Ching
Can I ask a stupid question? How did SW Airlines people find his Twitter feed right then when he was still at the airport? Do their personnel really go to social media sites when they are at work??? I think there my be an untold story here.
Sometimes a jackwagon meets a bigger jackwagon. It’s the way of the Tao.
While I think the agent/SWA are stupid for tossing him off the plane and forcing him to delete the tweet......but as a rule, in life it isn’t smart to talk smack to someone who is assembling your food or can throw you off the plane.
This is an isolated incident and SW apologized. End of story. I like SW Airlines and use them whenever I can. Flight attendants are usually very cordial and even funny at times.
I thought story was going to say the tweet was “By the Grace of Allah, I shall be humping those virgins soon”.
Something smells here. I fly Southwest almost exclusively during business trips, and this does not sound like the flight attendants and gate people I usually encounter. And normally, they don’t have time to do something silly like monitoring customers’ Twitter feeds during the boarding process.
“She said, ‘You can’t board the plane unless you delete that tweet,’” Watson said.
Now, thanks to her forcing the guy to delete a random tweet that would have been lost in the sea of tweets, she is going to have multiple news stories written about her, and millions of more people will know who she is.
As the comedian John Oliver observed:
“...the Internet is like quicksand. The more aggressively you fight to remove yourself from it, the deeper you’re going to sink down into it. The case in point is the guy who started all of this.”
(he is speaking of the Spanish man who sued to have himself “forgotten” by google)
“The only thing I know about him, is the only thing he didn’t want me to know.”
>unless the children were also A-List, the A-List passenger can’t bring them on board during priority seating. The flight attendant was merely following the rule:
Please note when traveling this holiday season, reserved boarding privileges are only provided for A-List and A-List Preferred Members. If an A-List or A-List Preferred Member is traveling on a multiple-Passenger reservation, reserved boarding privileges will not be provided for non-A-List Members in the same reservation. This includes family and friends traveling on the same itinerary or traveling with the Tier status holder.
Let me add: I fly Southwest a lot, although I’m not A-List. When I’m traveling with my wife, we’re always separated. With regard to traveling with minor children and others requiring assistance, these people board immediately after A-List and prior to people like me. They should not have a problem finding adjacent seats. Minimizing the time and expense in the boarding process is part of Southwest’s business model. It helps keep cost and ticket prices down.
Kind of like "winning" an auction.
Whether the man was right or wrong, it was his right to tweet the message.
There was no threat, real or implied in the message.
No one has the right to tell him to delete anything.
Kimberly was on a power trip, and needs to grow a thicker skin if you are in customer service.
Having not flown in 11 years, I can see why I do not miss it.
Sounds like the passenger AND the agent are both on the “A-List”.
Haven’t flown since 2006. I have about 40 years left of life and will never fly again. I have no desire to see anything I cannot drive to. I like being a close to my property person. Home and family that’s my pleasures.
his 6-year-old and 9-year-old
TSA want to fondle the children first I Guess.
I love arrogant “way to treat an A-List passenger” comment - like it’s some kind of hero badge.
What a big whiny baby SW has employed. IOW, she took company time to search out his tweet and went on a personal quest to make a scene. But somehow removing the tweet would make her feel safe again. Sticks and stones. Not that I fly these days but heads up to all airlines - I do NOT board without my children. Period. End of discussion.
I’m torn about this issue. On one hand, the SWA agent is a moron for asking a passenger to delete a Tweet. On the other hand, the passenger cheaped out and didn’t buy priority boarding for his kids. If he’d done this, his kids (who are not toddlers) could have boarded with him. Then he gets humiliated by the agent and Tweeted out everything. STOP TWEETING EVERYTHING YOU DO EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY, PEOPLE!