Your Mamma is so fat, she takes up two airline seats.
Southwest Airlines is receiving a mix of praise and scorn over a policy giving obese passengers free seats to hold their overabundant girth. Basic economics suggests that it will result in healthy passengers subsidizing the humungous. Worse, some thin passengers will get booted from flights to make room.
Southwest didn’t announce its “Customer of Size” policy with fanfare. Rather, it came to wide public attention after fat TikTokkers started educating each other on how to take advantage of it.
Southwest has caved to the cattle.
‘Customers of size’ will now receive a free extra seat to accommodate their poor health decisions.
Yes. Even if the airline is overbooked.
Which means someone who is not a busted can of biscuits will have to deplane so southwest can cater to… pic.twitter.com/ZC0D1Wc444
— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) December 15, 2023
The standard for getting a free extra seat strikes us as a little vague. According to the airlines posted FAQ:
“The armrest is the definitive gauge for a Customer of size. It serves as the boundary between seats. If you’re unable to lower both armrests and/or encroach upon any portion of a seat next to you, you need a second seat.”
As word spreads and more and more heavy people belly up to take advantage of the policy, maybe we’ll see test seats at Southwest gates akin to luggage size-testing boxes.
While it’s not mandatory, the airline encourages jumbo flyers to buy a second seat in advance and then ask for a refund:
“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 on board. It also helps us ensure we can accommodate all customers on the flight for which they purchased a ticket and avoid asking customers to relinquish their seats for unplanned accommodation.”
That last part is particularly worrisome, as it anticipates times when the “customer of size” policy compels Southwest to bump a normally-proportioned passenger to clear a second seat for a huge one.
According to the New York Post, that hard-to-swallow scenario is exactly what was imposed on a mother and her two teen sons, who were told that their flight home after a vacation was overbooked.
“Please help me understand why do I have to spend the night without any accommodations in Baltimore because an oversized person didn’t purchase a second ticket,” she wrote in a TikTok video account of her treatment. The video captures a Southwest employee telling her, “Even if there are not enough seats, we have to accommodate that customer of size.”
It’s finally happened; Southwest Airlines has caved and is being praised for giving plus-size customers a buy one get one free.
Their policy now allows overweight flyers to purchase one seat and get another complimentary.
We are rewarding bad habits now. pic.twitter.com/7ooWDMgFZi
— 🇺🇸 Larry 🇺🇸 (@LarryDJonesJr) December 13, 2023
The free seat policy is apparently unique among domestic carriers. “Southwest is the only airline that allows you a second seat at no extra cost even if the flight is fully booked,” wrote self-identified “fat solo traveler” Kimmy in an October video that brought the woke policy to widespread attention. In the video, she boasts of eating up a free second seat more than a dozen times already.
Just the latest example of declining American society encouraging self-destructive behavior and then distributing the costs to everyone.
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This is it. This is going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
When I interviewed for this company, you know what the very first thing they did was – BEFORE they even spoke to me to make sure I was right for the job? They took my measurements. Can’t imagine they’d get away with that nowadays. We fell so far, so fast.
Thanks, SWA. You used to be an awesome company.
Don’t you just love the designation “person of size?” In a simpler age it was called a “fat ass”. BTW, what were those measurements? Asking for a friend.
I still use the term “fat ass”.
what were those measurements?
I got the job. That’s all I’m saying. 😘
But not ONE guy is quite enough to be Daddy?
So you didn’t obviously look like you could easily fit in a typical seat?
Maybe that’s why they needed to make sure?
“Hmmmm, we should probably measure that ass”
I’m betting hour glass (with a dynamite booty. In my dreams, at least)).
Amusement parks in the US have been using the term ‘passengers of extraordinary size’ to describe very tall or very fat patrons for some time. Tall people get screwed over all the time while fat people get accommodated.
They are also known as “ham planets.”
My spouse is well over 6 ft tall. We always pay extra for an exit row or larger coach seat and make sure his employer pays for business or first class seating, after my spouse suffered through weeks of recovery after a crippling 8+ hour coach seat flight back from Europe for work.
While airlines are fine accommodating fat asses who if they shut their mouths for a while could fly coach like most people, airlines do nothing to accommodate people who are just naturally tall.
Flying has sucked since 9/11. This is just one more reason to drive or skip the trip at all.
Correct, you cannot Diet your way to vertical shrinkage but Fat asses can stop with the Sugar donuts and fizzy drinks entering their upsized mouth
I’m 6′ 3″ (may have shrunk an inch by now) and on LatAm international flights of 3 1/2 hours, no business or first class. If I can’t get an emergency exit or bulkhead seat, I stand in the galley area until I must sit for landing. It’s a nuisance. but it worked for me. I quit flying four years ago, can’t see myself doing it again.
Domestic airlines will not allow you to stand in the galley per TSA rules, of course.
Several years ago, I spent most of a flight from Honolulu to LAX walking the aisles or standing in the galley and I was only 6’1″, but the lack of space from seat front to the back of the seat in front of me was not enough room for my legs, especially when they reclined the seat.
Amen Cricket, I’m 6’4″ (lean) and airline seats became so unbearable that I quit flying. A few decades ago, there was a little more legroom, and I usually could wrangle an exit row or bulkhead seat as flights were rarely full. Then the started charging for those seats, sometimes even restricting them to certain passengers while filling the planes to capacity and reducing leg room a little bit more. There were long flights where I had backaches for days because the seats did not fit my back, particularly when I was having to literally wedge my knees into the seat in front of me. Any regard for passenger safety had gotten thrown out the window as there was no way the flight could be evacuated in a real emergency.
Forgot to add, that I actually see this as a good thing, not because they are rewarding someone for being fat, but because they aren’t punishing someone who might otherwise be assigned the seat next to the fat person. I’ve seen the poor soul who had to squeeze into half a seat for a 3 hr flight and the look on their face was that of pure horror.
Have you ever just taken your seat on the plane and watched the other passengers walking down the aisle and see a double-wide fattie looking for their seat and you just know the seat next to you is their seat and your 4 hour flight is going to be miserable?
WTF! Let piggy pay the price…I feel discriminated against for having the control and self respect not to require two seats for my fat ass and a trough for my snack.
Here here I agree. As my moniker says. I was the one who ate three custard buns when I should have had none, Im the one who ate a kilo of BBQ sauce covered spare ribs, Im the one who said fuck you to exercise. My choices.
What modern society has forgotten is consequence for action.
Yo’ mama so fat, when she sit aroun’ de house, she sit all the WAY aroun’ de house.
Yo’ mama so fat, when she wears a red dress, kids say ‘Hey Koolaid!’
Yo’ mama so fat, the Post Office gave her 3 zip codes.
Fine by me, I’d rather drive. Anyway, I don’t want to sit next to a wheezing slob and watch them inhale airline slop from a plastic tray. What they should do is add a new “class” at the back of the cabin so all the pigs can fly together. Will also help to get the nose up for take-off.
That wouldn’t work. All those fat asses in the back would prevent the airplane from nose down after take off and it would eventually stall.
On Auntie Airlines Lumpenpotamuses would be flying freight aircraft only, by-the – palletload; cattlecars for rail, and by deuce and half on highways.
Why is SWA directing such humiliation, mockery and actual contempt for their passengers who are NOT tremendously morbidly obese? The message is not only for SWA passengers but to all of us. FSWA and FJB.
🤣
Yo mama’s so fat, when she goes camping, the bears hide their food.
Yo mama’s so fat, if she buys a fur coat, a whole species will become extinct.
Yo mama’s so fat, she stepped on a scale and it said: “To be continued.”
Yo momma is so fat, I swerved to miss her in my car and ran out of gas.
There’s more where that came from
https://bestlifeonline.com/yo-mama-jokes/
Ha ha!
Yo mama so stupit, she went t’ pick you up at de airpo’t . . . she seen a sign sayin’, “Airpo’t Lef'” – so she turn aran an’ go home.
Yo mama so fat, her blood type may-O-positive.
Yo momma so fat,
Her blood type is Rocky Road
Only fat people are happy about this. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of them.
True, yet I am not one of them.
I do not fly anything near as much I did before I retired and as such, I fly first class……..It is utterly amazing watching the passing parade and what they are carrying to their seats in the back.
I think the woman in the video brings a rotisserie chicken or two.
There was once a time when you had to go to the circus side shows to see people like this.
Same with lady-men.
A quick run down to the grocery fixes that need (to see the increasing number of the horribly morbidly obese on those motorized buggies) these days.
So she’s the one to feed on when the plane crashes in the Andes.
Auntie just vomited a little in the mouth. Thanks.
Sure if you like eating fatback.
God is my copilot but we crashed in the mountains so I had to eat him.
I identify as a “person of size” so I get two seats. Right? I get two seats?
I identify as Rachel Dolezal, so I can carjack, rob, rape, and murder, and be let go from jail.
I identify as the ruler of the earth.
I can have anything I want.
I suspect that the only way you get an extra seat is if yo’ fat ass is also black.
No, the article and other news makes it clear. The whole idea is total subversion of Western standards.
Any standards; all standards; no standards; zero standards; really.
Communist Democrat = community demo/lition.
Yo’ mama so fat that when she haul ass she need two plane seats.
Identify as obese, problem solved.
Free seats for everyone.
Identify as a ‘person of odor’ and get the whole plane to oneself.
“Is that turbulence?”
“No, just flatulence.”
The last two rows have the narrowest seats, sit there, you wont be chosen to give up your seat.
Always sat in the last row when I used to fly. Rarely did I have a seat mate, no matter what size. Too much noise and sometimes turbulence for most people. Oh well.
Free second seats?
Are they eating them?
Not “Free seconds”…sheesh!
She needs a belt extension to get over that “gunt”. Gross.
Every lardass in the country will head to SW. This will end poorly for them. I doubt they understand how many free seats they just gave away, and how many normal folks will drop SW like a hot potato because of this. These idiots never learn.
I lightly remember Homer Simpson ordering two Airline seats, one for the left Cheek and one for the right.
Cartoons have become real
I’m guessing tall bodybuilders are not accommodated with upgrades or free seats…
I can also tell you that if you buy a second seat, the airline can insist you give it up for another passenger. For instance, when my wife and I traveled together to our destination, and she returned early due to an emergency, my return included two seats, hers and mine. He flight was fully booked and the air waitress told me they needed the empty seat next to me. I paid for that seat, but they didn’t care. Flying just sucks completely.
This policy will be unsustainable. Airlines operate on thin margins as it is. People will abuse this forcing the airline to start charging for the free seat. Only other option is to subside it by raising the price of all seats. Most people have no loyalty to a particular airline so if flying is higher cost on SWA they will lose customers to other airlines. Another option is to have all obese (fat) people sit together in a three-seat row, so they only get a seat and a half. Lose only one seat instead of two. So, do they now get to check four bags for free? I mean their clothes are larger so they cannot fit as many in one suitcase. Same logic as the free seat.
Right. Slippery slope, just like everything else was. Allow one thing then it all gets out of hand.
I would just ban them from flying.
Maybe consider banning them from most things…like shows & performances too. I see a lot of performances (not that I’m rich, but because I have connections) and it NEVER fails that some HUGE ASS HEIFER sits in front of me where I can’t see anything OR sits next to me spilling over into my seat. I can’t stand it.
Stay home, fatties! Your problem should not become my problem.
At the rate the economy is deteriorating, in a few year it will make no difference, because no one will be able to afford to be fat…..
Fat people are food addicts.
It’s amazing watching them eat. And eat.
And eat. Like it is some sort of assignment.
Fly NDA!
New Discount Airlines!
Fly…By The Pound!
The less YOU and YOUR crap weigh,
The less YOU PAY!