Southwest Airlines Asks Woman To Unboard Flight Because She Is Thin!
July 27th, 2010 - 4:29 pm ICT by GD ( 1 comment )By Gina Gomez
July 27, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Southwest Airlines is soon becoming famous for showing under and over weight passengers who board their aircraft the exit. After a report about the airlines that spread not so long ago about the Southwest Airlines asking actor and director Kevin Smith to unboard its flight as he was overweight and occupied two instead of one entitled seat, a underweight girl is the next victim. According to reports, the 110 pound woman from Sacramento, who prefers to remain anonymous, was asked to leave her seat in order to accommodate a fat 14 year old kid.
The Southwest Airlines flight in which the incident took place was flying from Las Vegas to Sacramento. According to reports, the thin woman had boarded her flight on time and had also stowed her baggage, but was asked to leave the flight by attendants as they had to provide seating space to another 14 year old who was fat. The fact which made the Sacramento woman all the more angry was that when she lodged her complain with the ground staff they refused to cooperate with her. The thin woman, though a standby passenger, feels that she was entitled to the seat that she was asked to vacate because the 14 year old had paid for a single seat.
Whitney Eichinger, a spokeswoman for the Southwest Airlines however has defended the airline’s reputation saying that their flight was full and they had to provide seats first to those who had originally booked their names with the Southwest Airlines, the Sacramento woman not being one of them. She also said in a statement to the media that the thin woman was put on another flight, so she really has no reason to complain.
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July 28th, 2010 at 2:52 am
The day will soon arrive when passengers will be required to enter their height and weight prior to purchasing a ticket-it will just be part of the quote process. If they are obese they just might be charged for two tickets up front instead of one. And then when folks fudge the truth (because no one really wants to admit how much they weigh) airlines will start weighing passengers during security screening to verify the information-and stop them before they even get to the gate if the numbers don’t match up.
For the airlines, I would think this would be extremely helpful to plan fuel as it is all based on the weight of the cargo. They could even determine charges based on individual weight-right now a kid who weighs 50 pounds pays the same as an adult who weighs 150 pounds, even though it costs less to transport the 50 pound kid. Why not just charge people according to weight alone? It wouldn’t be “fat” discrimination, kids cost less (significantly), even body builders would have to pay more because they weigh more-not from fat but muscle. If done correctly and applied automatically to all passengers then it would be discreet. But I can hear it now-fat discrimination. I would think it’s only discrimination if obese people are refused service altogether.
After all-big and tall clothes sometimes cost more than average sized clothing. Bigger cars cost more than smaller cars, airline seats with more leg room cost more (taller people aren’t complaining about height discrimination!), bigger beds cost more-not just the bed but the sheets, mattresses, bedspreads, bigger luggage costs more, bigger size value meals cost more…seems that for most things-the more you need or want the more you pay. No reason a seat on a plane should be any different.
Heck, I might even purchase that extra seat once in a while myself so I don’t have to sit next to someone who neglected to take a shower or brush their teeth that morning.