Woman kicked off flight so fat kid can have second seat

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Blue Smarties

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Why doesn't chubbster leave the plane?

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38414189/ns/today-todaytravel/

It’s irritating enough to get bumped from a flight. If you are already seated on that flight, having to walk off the plane adds a little indignity.

But to be told to leave a plane because a too-large passenger needs two seats? It turned into a seeing-red, head-scratching moment for one frequent flier.

A female sales rep (who requested anonymity in interviews) revealed her strange tale to the Sacramento Bee, relating how she was asked to vacate her seat aboard a Southwest Airlines flight shortly before the plane was set to leave Las Vegas for Sacramento last week.

The woman, a petite 5-foot-4, 110 pounds, said she was flying standby when agents sold her the last seat available on the plane. She had already stowed her bags and was settling into her seat when an attendant told her she had to leave immediately.

When she was told her seat was needed because a late-arriving passenger’s girth was too wide for just one, she had some questions.

“It didn’t seem right that I should leave to accommodate someone who had only paid for one seat,” the woman told the Sacramento Bee. But she was even more upset because, she said, airline staff acted rudely and inconsiderately when she asked for a further explanation.

Southwest regrets how the situation was handled, according to airline spokeswoman Marilee McInnis. “We know that this was awkward and we should have handled it better,” she told the Sacramento Bee.

While saying the airline plans to apologize to the bumped passenger, McInnis said Southwest staff may have acted more swiftly than usual in booting her because the overweight passenger in question was only 14 and they were trying to spare the teen embarrassment.

Southwest Airlines has been kicking up controversy about weighty issues lately — earlier this year, renowned “Clerks" director/actor Kevin Smith was bumped from a Southwest flight because he was too big to fit into one seat.
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While saying the airline plans to apologize to the bumped passenger, McInnis said Southwest staff may have acted more swiftly than usual in booting her because the overweight passenger in question was only 14 and they were trying to spare the teen embarrassment.
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If that had been me I'd have kicked off and told the fat little fuck some home truths.
 
BoyBlue_1985 said:
how about people weighing 10 stone and having to pay £10 per kilo of overweight luggage, but a 30 stone man gets the same luggage allowance.
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i've been advocating for years that the weight of the person and the luggage should be the allowance, but that would be deemed as non-pc

when waiting in a queue at hong kong i knew my luggage was five kilos over but the americans in front of me were about 30 kilos each heavier than me and I was going to kick off big style if they were going to charge me, as it happens they said nothing
 
i had to sit next to a fat woman on a flight last year
no it wasnt my girlfriend..lol

i wondered how fat people get into seats on planes and i found out

the woman had her own cushion to sit on so all the fat dropped over the top of the armrests
 
squirtyflower said:
BoyBlue_1985 said:
how about people weighing 10 stone and having to pay £10 per kilo of overweight luggage, but a 30 stone man gets the same luggage allowance.
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i've been advocating for years that the weight of the person and the luggage should be the allowance, but that would be deemed as non-pc

when waiting in a queue at hong kong i knew my luggage was five kilos over but the americans in front of me were about 30 kilos each heavier than me and I was going to kick off big style if they were going to charge me, as it happens they said nothing
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Something has to be done about it. i sometimes think i should get my seat half price
 
After reading that, this instantly sprang to mind.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTq2_3LfXM[/youtube]
 
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