FATTY, FATTY, 2 BY 4, CAN'T GET THROUGH THE AIRPLANE'S DOOR

Modified: Saturday, Jul. 24, 2010 - 9:56 am
Southwest Airlines made headlines earlier this year for kicking overweight actor-director Kevin Smith off a flight because he took up more than one seat. Now we're hearing the airline recently removed a 5-foot-4, 110-pound Sacramento-area woman from a plane so a hefty passenger could have an extra seat. The incident happened last week on an early-evening Southwest flight from Las Vegas to Sacramento. The local woman was flying standby, paid full fare for the last available seat, got on board, stowed her bags and sat down – only to be told she would have to deplane immediately. The reason? A late-arriving passenger required two seats because of her girth. The Sacramento woman, a frequent-flying sales rep, was stunned. "It didn't seem right that I should have to leave to accommodate someone who had only paid for one seat," she tells us. (She has asked to remain anonymous for fear some may regard her as insensitive.) She's even more miffed because she says Southwest personnel berated her when she questioned the decision to boot her from the plane.

NOW DON'T YA KNOW THEY ARE TREATED AS A MINORITY.