Southwest Airlines Community

I am sure you or your kids or kids you know love dinosaurs. They must have lived quite a while to have loved them by seeing them perform tricks for you, right? ... View more

I have flowed SWA regularly before. But after knowing that SWA is partnered with SW and paints their captive animals on your planes, I am utterly disappointed. I hear that SWA is very good with corporate social responsibility. I urge you to end your partnership with SW. By doing so, you will truly be supporting your basis for partnering with SW in the first place "We have a longstanding relationship with SeaWorld that is based on travel and bringing families together." If you are about "travel and bringing families together", please educate yourselves about how orcas travel together with their entire families all their lives in the wild. It is inhumane and immoral to support captivity and commercialization of such highly emotional and intelligent animals that share similar, if not stronger, family bonds as humans. As a loyal SWA customer, I urge you to please take action, and take it quickly. The "listening and education mode" approach that SWA is taking--for a few weeks now--is equivalent to silence. And as a wise man said, "Remaining silent in the face of injustice is the same as supporting it." I urge you to end your association with SW. Else, I will do what one person can do -- stop flying SWA and urge all my friends and family to do the same. ... View more