Southwest Airlines recently kicked a skinny woman off a plane to make room for an oversized 14-year-old girl who needed two seats, a move that has prompted at least one expert to call for airlines to start selling a handful of special big seats on flights for bigger Americans.
Normally, we hear about passengers who are too fat to fly — people so obese that they can’t squeeze into their chair and never thought to purchase a second ticket. Remember when Southwest booted Clerk’s director and actor Kevin Smith from a flight in February because of his heft?
But this time it was a 5-foot-4, 110-pound Sacramento, Calif.-area woman who was forced from the plane.
