02-16-2010
06:22 PM
1 Love
First of all, how does one purchase two tickets for themselves on a southwest flight when there's an "open seating" policy on southwest?? When someone asks "is that middle seat taken?" Does he just respond "yes, I paid for two"? Either way, if he had a history of paying for two seats to allow himself "extra room", he's already aware he has a problem fitting into a single seat. In defense of Kevin, I never thought him of the obese size that would venture into the adjacent seat, but I digress. I'm willing to bet that the fact that he had 2 tickets on the previous flight, then went standby, is what drew attention to his weight on the flight he wound up taking. He might be able to claim Hollywood status (on a SW flight of all places) and buy 2 tickets for some sort of ghetto SW first class feeling... but to any airline employee, someone who walks up to the counter, asks for standby, and forks over two boarding passes, if obviously doing so because they are in the "passenger of size" category. When that SW rep put Kevin on the standby list, he/she likely made it known to the crew of that flight that Mr. Smith was a "passenger of size", not based on her evaluation of him, but more because his "dual ticket" exchange proclaimed him as such. I'll bet all my rapid rewards points that if he had a single seat for his original flight, this would have never happened. I'm sorry for what he (and any obese person) in that scenario has to go through, but he brought this on himself with the purchase of two tickets. I honestly don't think he's too big to fly in one seat. I think he put himself in the category by buying two and the whole thing snow balled from there.
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02-16-2010
06:22 PM
1 Love
First of all, how does one purchase two tickets for themselves on a southwest flight when there's an "open seating" policy on southwest?? When someone asks "is that middle seat taken?" Does he just respond "yes, I paid for two"? Either way, if he had a history of paying for two seats to allow himself "extra room", he's already aware he has a problem fitting into a single seat. In defense of Kevin, I never thought him of the obese size that would venture into the adjacent seat, but I digress. I'm willing to bet that the fact that he had 2 tickets on the previous flight, then went standby, is what drew attention to his weight on the flight he wound up taking. He might be able to claim Hollywood status (on a SW flight of all places) and buy 2 tickets for some sort of ghetto SW first class feeling... but to any airline employee, someone who walks up to the counter, asks for standby, and forks over two boarding passes, if obviously doing so because they are in the "passenger of size" category. When that SW rep put Kevin on the standby list, he/she likely made it known to the crew of that flight that Mr. Smith was a "passenger of size", not based on her evaluation of him, but more because his "dual ticket" exchange proclaimed him as such. I'll bet all my rapid rewards points that if he had a single seat for his original flight, this would have never happened. I'm sorry for what he (and any obese person) in that scenario has to go through, but he brought this on himself with the purchase of two tickets. I honestly don't think he's too big to fly in one seat. I think he put himself in the category by buying two and the whole thing snow balled from there.
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