I am sure SW will lose some customers, but it may gain others. It may be bad publicity now, but it may prove to be a good business decision in the long run.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jschmidt
[B]Not only is it narrow-minded it's kinda moronic. Essentially, you've all decided that the passenger, not the airline is responsible for your comfort.

 

well put james - big&tall clothes stores, big&tall airlines. all people are not created equal...in some cases the differences are good, other cases they are not.

 

Hey, if you want to debate this, then great lets do it, but there is no need to resort to name calling. I respect you and your contributions to this board. There is no reason we can't be polite and continue to disagree.

Here is a simple analogy. When one goes out to eat, one will order food sufficient for one's appetite. If, for some reason the meal doesn't satisfy the diner, does that diner get to eat off of somebody else's plate to fill his belly? Not is this country. That person will either go hungry or order more food. The guy at the next table isn't required to support the hungry diner's expanded appetite. Nor is the restaurant required to provide everybody with bigger portions so the big eaters will feel full. Some eateries, however, go so far as to offer a super size portions at an additional cost. Are they bad guys for "taking advantage" of those with a larger appetite?

How about another.
If you are too big to fit in your car, you buy one that fits. You don't complain that normal-sized people fit, so they should make the car bigger to fit you.

"You paid the airline, not the fat guy. If the airline chooses to crowd the seats so 20% of Americans don't fit, it is the airline's fault."

The airline is solving the problem to my satisfaction. If the flyer is too big for the seat, then he should buy two seats, enough to fill his appetite, so to speak. You seemed to have solved your problem by not flying Southwest. Welcome to a free market economy.

 

WELL PUT Nin009!

Those are good analogies! Its like going to Honda and saying they are discriminatory because the s2000 is not big enough to accomodate the obese! How absurd would that be?

Maybe just like "Rochester's Big and Tall" and "The Short Shop" (a clothing store in San Francisco tailored towards short people), someone will come up with an airline tailored for larger folks.

As a side note. Being fat, obese, or whatever you want to call it, is not healthy anyway. Why not eat better and exercise more. Hey, its a free country and you can live however you like, but I for one do not want to die a slow painful death whereby the last 10 years of my life are spent in bed on a respirator with tubes coming out all over me because of heart problems.