What is this "safety" I keep reading about in these comments? "Comfort and safety". I understand the comfort part. But the "safety"? Because an overweight person may be sitting next to you that's now unsafe?
Hmm...what about the elderly and disabled? Would you want to be sitting next to THEM if there was an emergency and you had to exit your row quickly?
Why doesn't SWA have a policy in place for them? Will you remove a disabled person from your aircraft? Or an elderly person? No? Why is that again? They're impeding my "safety" just as much as an overweight person might, are they not?
It's so true what others have said - you discriminate against overweight people because you CAN.
I've never liked SWA. This incident and the half-arsed apology attempt won't do anything to get me on a SWA plane.
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