02-16-2010
04:11 AM
Such a pity that so many people take to this blog to state their support for Southwest's policy and use Kevin Smith's situation as an example.
As he has regularly stated, he is not one of the people that you continually reference as too fat to fly. He fitted in the seat, lowered the arm rest and buckled the seat. If he had been unable to do so, Southwest would have been justified in removing him per their policy. But this is not the case, and therefore a mistake was made by the crew that Southwest continues to try and deflect attention from.
Like so many other posters here, I am a regular flyer, normally on international flights of 10 or more hours duration. I can certainly appreciate a passenger being entitled to room on the seat they paid for. Once again however, this is completely irrelevant to the situation at hand, and nothing short of a full apology from SWA will be satisfactory for those of us who actually understand the situation, rather than just jumping on the 'bash the big guy' bandwagon.
PS: (I weigh 165 pounds, before anyone starts wondering if this post is self motivated.)
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