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Does Southwest Airlines discriminate against beautiful people?
According to a report filed by
Janie Porter of Tampa Bay's Channel 10 News,
University of South
Florida student Nisreen Swedberg and her friend Sarah Williams
claim that a Southwest Airlines crew was rude to them on a flight
from Tampa International Airport (TIA) to
Los
Angeles International Airport (LAX) on February 14.
In Porter's report, Sarah Williams is quoted as saying "I think
they were discriminating against us because we were young,
decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody on the plane looked like us
except us."
When reached by phone, Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Brandy King
answered all questions about the incident, including the question
of whether or not someone is "too pretty" to fly on Southwest
Airlines.
Too Pretty to Fly Southwest Airlines: The Bottle of
Water
According to the Janie Porter's report, Swedberg asked a flight
attendant for a bottle of water and was told she could wait until
the rest of the flight was served. "We don't serve bottles of
water, just to be clear on that. We have cans of water and how I'm
reading the report is the flight crew gets the plane ready to go
and they typically take drink orders during the flight," King
said.
Porter's report quoted Swedberg as saying "And I patiently waited
and then when they came around with water, they skipped me." In
response, King said "If a passenger has requested water, it
typically comes served in a glass. We don't typically have a can
for each passenger, so it comes in a glass, a plastic glass. I have
nothing in my reports that indicates that any passengers were
skipped when the beverage service was conducted."
Too Pretty to Fly Southwest: The Bathroom
Sarah Williams had to use the bathroom in-flight and, after waiting
15 minutes for a passenger to finish, she said she knocked on the
door.
"We do have two restrooms on board, one in the front
of the aircraft and one in the back. If there is a passenger in one
for an extended period of time, there's always a second option for
using the aircraft (lavatory), but we do not limit passengers on
the time they are using a lavatory," King said.