Southwest Airlines Community

Marilyn - LIGHTEN UP! Sounds like you drink too much of Kevin Smiths KOOL AID. GEEEZZZ... Get a life. Go find something else to complain about. If you want to weigh 300 lbs and fly - then go fly first class on one of the other airlines. And keep your mouth shut about something you know nothing about other then what some fat so-called celebrity says happened. The others of you that find fault with the commercial need to go get some happy pills or something. Good Lord. Can you NOT have FUN in your life??? Can you NOT have FUN at work? You are a sorry lot if you can't.... ... View more

"pride in the sky" I have but one line for you. "LIGHTEN UP FRANCES!" "anonymous" - This ad has nothing to do with security. Refer to above sentence. "Marilyn" - It's not "SouthWorst" - it's SOUTHWEST. The only one that should have "Worst" behind it is "NORTHWorst". If you have ever flown on them you would understand why I said that. Back to your point - THANK GOD that Southwest has a policy of having "fat" (YOUR word) people buy two tickets! There is nothing worse then having to swap sweat with someone you don't know for 3 hours trapped in a seat - when YOU PAID FOR YOUR SPACE and the other "fat" person is encroaching on it. Get stuck in the middle seat between two of those people and you are MISERABLE. Either you don't fly very much - or you are one of "those people" - or you just thought it would be cool to jump on "Silent Bobs Bandwagon". Any way you look at it - YOU ARE WRONG! And YES - THE AD ROCKS! ... View more

I can't wait to see what's in the new commercials. Very Cool that they use actual employees! SWA ROCKS! ... View more

It pains me to see all the negative comments about a great airline. You guys must be kidding me - either that, or you don't fly very much. All of you that say "I'm never flying SW again" - see Ya on a SW flight soon... Either that or you have enough money to waste on other airlines seats that are the same size - and who have worse service. The guy was in the WRONG by posting this deal all over the world - and making the story completely one-sided against SW. I suppose all of you making disparaging comments toward SW and it's so-called "discrimination against fat people" would be completely fine sitting in between two people of Kevin Smiths size for a 4 hour flight? REALLY???? I applaud SW for HAVING a "C.O.S. policy", and enforcing it. I don't want to have someones fat oozing over the armrests and rubbing against me for 3 or 4 hours. Yes - maybe he got the armrests down - but then again - I have seen 350lb people in 38 waist pants too. The part ABOVE the armrest is the problem. I pay the same price for my 17" of seat as anyone else. I am entitled to have that 17" of space without having someone else blubbering over into it. If you can't deal with that - then too bad. Lose some damn weight or don't fly! Your "right to be fat" does not mean you can encroach on MY right to the seat space I PAID FOR. For those of you who say "make the seats bigger" - how about YOU fork out the hundreds of millions of dollars that SW would lose in one year from doing that. They are a business, just like your employer or yourself. They have to maximize profits while keeping the cost low, just like everyone else. They should not have to suffer or lose money just because some big-shot hollywood guy like Kevin thinks he can slander them all over the media just because they feel they got "slighted". Screw him. I am more pissed off that SW even BOTHERED to apologize to that idiot. They should be SUING him for slander and false accusations. Thank GOD there is a company like SOUTHWEST that actually CARES about people being encroached upon by overweight people that think they have the right to ruin everyone elses flight. Maybe there will be LESS fat people flying SW now - all the better for the rest of us! ... View more

This whole thing is blown out of proportion. SouthWest should not have had to apologize PERIOD. From what I understand - he had ALREADY PURCHASED TWO SEATS for the flight HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON. Meaning HE KNEW HE DIDN'T FIT IN ONE SEAT! So then - when he tried to go on an earlier flight as a STANDBY - he only had ONE seat and it didn't work. Other passengers should not be inconvenienced and their safety jeopardized just because he wanted to GO EARLY! And then he wants to raise a stink about it??? HE was the one who caused the problem - and he KNEW he was too big to fit in one seat. THEN he wants to slander Southwest all over the media just because he thinks he is a big shot?? WRONG WRONG WRONG. I - or any other customer - should not have to swap sweat with someone too big to fit comfortably in one seat for the duration of the flight. It's not my fault you can't stop at one plate, or that you think that fast food IS a food group. Other paying customers should not have to put up with being smashed in a seat by an overweight person. Grow up, go on a diet, get some exercise, and be healthy. And quit complaining about the best airline in the world just because they care about their customer's comfort and safety when confronted by an obese seat hog with a big mouth and a lot of twitter followers. APOLOGY NOT NEEDED HERE! ... View more