Southwest Airlines Community

From the absolutely condescending and snarky title to your trying to justify humiliating a human being under the guise of "safety," I am downright disgusted by Southwest Airlines and will never, under any circumstances, travel with your airline. I am not a person of size, quite the opposite in fact, but if your policy is to seat passengers and then boot them from the plane when there have been a) no complaints made against them from other passengers b)their armrests could easily go down and c) no seatbelt extender was necessary, then there is no telling what you will do to others. I applaud Mr. Smith for using his celebrity to speak out against your airline and I hope millions of others follow suit through boycotting. If this were just one unfortunate incident, then I would say, okay, shit happens, but how you did the same thing to another overweight passenger in Mr. Smith's row who was in fact sitting next to an empty seat, and how you accepted no blame for your rudeness and mistreatment of a passenger, it is clear that it is your policy to embarass, degrade, and discriminate against everyone. And Southwest Airlines, that just sucks. ... View more

From the absolutely condescending and snarky title to your trying to justify humiliating a human being under the guise of "safety," I am downright disgusted by Southwest Airlines and will never, under any circumstances, travel with your airline. I am not a person of size, quite the opposite in fact, but if your policy is to seat passengers and then boot them from the plane when there have been a) no complaints made against them from other passengers b)their armrests could easily go down and c) no seatbelt extender was necessary, then there is no telling what you will do to others. I applaud Mr. Smith for using his celebrity to speak out against your airline and I hope millions of others follow suit through boycotting. If this were just one unfortunate incident, then I would say, okay, shit happens, but how you did the same thing to another overweight passenger in Mr. Smith's row who was in fact sitting next to an empty seat, and how you accepted no blame for your rudeness and mistreatment of a passenger, it is clear that it is your policy to embarass, degrade, and discriminate against everyone. And Southwest Airlines, that just sucks. ... View more