Comments on: Weight Discrimination

By: Kristi

Kristi — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:30:07 +0000

Awww, your poor hubby! I know this had to have hurt his feelings. Yep, I agree with Heather, the flight attendant needs another customer service training class and then follow it up with a common sense class.

By: Miki

Miki — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:14:57 +0000

Yikes! What a horrible situation! My sister-in-law was a flight attendant, and they’re not supposed to behave this way! Miki

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:21:07 +0000

Your kidding right? I can not believe they would treat any perso that way. Do they treat the pro-football players like that when they fly? What a**h*les!!!

By: Liz M

Liz M — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:29:19 +0000

Shouldn’t your husband be the one to make the call if he needs a seatbelt extender or not? I think I would have made an even bigger scene for the flight attendant, and let her or him know that I was going to be contacting the higher authority..

I think that they could have went about it another way quietly..

By: Lauralee Hensley

Lauralee Hensley — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:18:43 +0000

Not acceptable treatment at all. If they have to move a paying passenger for any reason it should be done as kindly and quitely as possible.

By: Darcie K

Darcie K — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:23:38 +0000

That is truly terrible. I would voice your opinion to their customer service department. It might not get you anywhere but sometimes a company needs to know when they have a rude and insensitive employee.

By: Badger Momma

Badger Momma — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:33:33 +0000

I may be the odd one out here but I don’t think it was necessarily discrimination as much as it was an extreme lack of tact and the proper knowledge and common sense as how to deal with the situation.

Asking your husband to move wasn’t discrimination, nor getting a seat belt extender. It’s not as if they declined to let him have a seat. However, it is EXTREMELY bad form and lack of tact. Personally, I think all flight attendants should attend some sort of mandatory sensitivity training and receive proper and consistent training with rules and protocol involving issues such as this.

The same treatment can be applied to any situation – a parent with unruly children, a crying baby or two, someone with extreme body odor, etc. The thing here is how the crew is trained to deal with it tactfully and discreetly. It IS a service industry and it is their job to provide a service to ALL their passengers, not just the ones that don’t cause them any ‘inconvenience’.

I hope that I explained myself well enough. So in a nutshell, no, I don’t think your husband should have been treated like that under any circumstances, but no, I don’t think it was discrimination. Just an extreme case of lack of tact and sensitivity.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:09:22 +0000

1. I wouldn’t mind more room myself, and I’m not all that overweight.
2. I have been obese before, and I don’t enjoy flights all that much let alone being pestered about my most sensitive fault.

By: ShaRhonda

ShaRhonda — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:30:18 +0000

I thought of this post when I heard that on the news…..ARRRRRGH!!!!

By: heatherzilla

heatherzilla — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:56 +0000

I do not think it is acceptable behavior. It sounds like the flight attendant could use additional customer service training.