02-16-2010
04:14 AM
Sadly a lot of people are completely missing the point, including the employees of SWA. What's even more tragic is the posts by some people who are trying to support the airline but just come off sounding like really horrible people. I have to say that it's not really fat people that are a liability when evacuating a plane but the stupid or panicky ones and unfortunately there is no way to screen for them.
In the real world a company like SWA needs to change such discriminatory polices or it will be sued or boycotted out of business. How they have gotten away with it for so long is something of a minor miracle.
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