Tmz.com tells us that Kevin Smith was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight yesterday for being a “safety risk” — a polite way of saying he was deemed too fat to fly.
Smith was flying from Oakland to Burbank and was, according to his own tweets, already seated and ready to go when a Southwest attendant named Suzanne “told me Captain Leysath deemed me a ’safety risk.’”
He flew into Oakland on a SW flight, and tweeted later (along with the photo on the right) that he eventually flew out on one as well.
Smith also received a $100 voucher for his trouble and a few apologetic tweets from SWA, but based on the number of four-letter words used on Smith’s Twitter page … we don’t think the apology was accepted. This isnt the first time I have heard of Southwest Airlines treating people bad. I hope they get it together and start treating their clients better than they are doing or they might just lose people using their airlines to get to places. The picture on the side is the one Kevin Smith tweeted while on another Southwest flight. Does it make any sense to yuo that if he wasnt okay for one flight he was okay for another? I personally dont think that 100 dollars justifies the humiliation that Kevin had to go through.
This same thing happened to my husband years ago. It was incredibly embarrassing for him (and I to be honest). They did allow him to get on the plane but made a pretty big fuss about it prior to boarding.
We did not receive an apology or a credit…go figure!
@Sandy – apologize here, from us….