Southwest Airlines is being celebrated for its new policy giving those losing the battle of the bulge a full row of seats for the price of one.
Southwest says that passengers whose bodies “encroach” past the armrest of the seat they purchase are entitled to an additional seat, free of charge.
Southwest told Fox Business that passengers of the extra portly variety “have the option of purchasing just one seat and then discussing your seating needs with the Customer Service Agent at the departure gate. If it’s determined that a second (or third) seat is needed, you’ll be accommodated with a complimentary additional seat.”
The policy states, “Customers who encroach upon any part of the neighboring seat(s) may proactively purchase the needed number of seats prior to travel to ensure the additional seat(s) is available… The purchase of additional seats serves as a notification of a special seating need and allows us to adequately plan for the number of occupied seats onboard.”
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I identify as morbidly obese
Really?! so how about tall people some extra free leg-room?
Sorry YWN, that comment at the end was disgusting. Most people who are that big have other health issues or are geneticly disposed to being that big and have been big since they were little kids.
You’re killing me! This is hilarious!
😂 what if it’s a completely booked flight? Are they going to bump people because of the fat person or vice versa
….losing the battle of the bulge…..
Funniest line I ever read! got me laughing for a few minutes!
@ohrchadash1
Wow you’re really creative sniffing out some negativity. I read this article thinking that for once there wont be any hate comments… I was wrong.
Having once been a person who may have fit that criteria, I was flying out of LAX once with them and they told me I would have to buy an extra seat because I had requested pre-boarding in order to sit at a location in the airplane that would not be an issue. Back then I flew a lot and I knew where in the plane I could sit that would not be an issue (near the middle at a window where the plane is wider).
One of the customer service reps came up to me and said I would have to buy an extra seat. I asked them, if you offer pre-boarding, why can’t I just take advantage of the pre-boarding and get where I need to be in the aircraft so that there isn’t an issue for this 1 hour long flight? They gave me lots and lots of grief and told me I needed to make sure I stayed in my area of the seat and not overhang. I told him that they were being completely irrational and this is something I had to think about when flying Southwest again or even bringing it up to other people.
Suddenly they toned it down and let me pre-board like a normal person. There were no issues on the flight. They are lucky!
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Free seat(s)? Really!? Do you know who will pay for these “free” seat(s)! You!!! Everyone on the plane will pay more for their seats to cover woke Southwest extra expense…
When I visit my local food stores, I see shelves filled with many kinds of obviously-unhealthy foods:
sodas, potato chips, high-fat iced-cream, so-called “breakfast cereals” with lots of sugar and minimal nutrients, flavored drinks with lots of sugar and minimal nutrients [and sometimes high in acid], jars of peanuts [very high in fat and often with extra salt added], pastries with minimal nutrients that are high in sugar and fat and carbohydrates, mayonnaise [very high in fat with minimal nutrients], high-sugar jams and jellies, candies, high-fat chocolate milk, and many, many, many more food-items that are unlikely to cause good health and likely to cause bad health.
Finding-and-buying only-healthy-foods requires knowledge and effort and discipline.
Considering how many obviously-unhealthy foods are sold in our food stores and supermarkets, can any person be surprised that obesity is out-of-control?
You will all be happy to know that they removed the unnecessary last line. Thank you.
SQUARE_ROOT
You know something, everyone eats bread and people who eat bread are skinny so why isn’t everyone skinny? What you were saying makes absolutely positively no sense .
If you think people are walking around obese because they want to be? You think they checked off that box for themselves, hey I want to be obese here let me put a check there.
You think you’re so good because you’re able to look at cereals and you probably eat lettuce and carrots like a bunny rabbit, in which case you have other health issues also but we’re not going to go into that now.
I identify as non bidenary