By Surley b. McCenaire
August 25, 2025
While the airline still allows plus-shaped passengers to apply for correspondence, social media users are worried that policy can be considered discriminatory.
A new refund policy of Southwest Airlines is being reimbursed for additional space for plus-size customers, USA Today Informed
The airline has updated its “size customer” refund policy, which starts new conditions for eligible customers to get refunds. Once such customers were encouraged to buy two seats while booking tickets and then applying for a second fare withdrawal, Southwest’s policy says that the flight should depart with at least one open seat, both seats should be purchased in the same rent class, such as choice, choice, preferred, additional, or basic, and return requirement should be made within 90 days of your travel.
The new policy is implemented on January 27-an assigned seating preference in the south-west is switching-Plus-shaped travelers feel that the new policy is afraid and once eliminates the benefits of the airline, which adds complications.
“It seems like a coward ad-on with a policy that was without killing a line below 20+ years,” traveling effects and Chabbi Diary The founder, Jeff Jenkins said in a statement.
“I just hope that consumers know about this change, and I wonder if the plus-shaped people will leave when they fly with them because they do not know whether the flight has been sold or not. It is more concerned about the experience of high anxiety already.”
Some advocates are already banking on supporting a separate airline, such as a writer for a fashion newsletter, a writer called. Great unknownShe says that she flew only south-west due to her plus-size friendly policy, but it is about to change. “I definitely felt like crying because it would make my life very difficult,” according to Fay, according to, Washington Post,
“We are talking about the difference between spending $ 400 vs. $ 800 or more.”
Tigress Osborne, National Association Executive Director Advance Fat Acceptance, Admit the new policy will eventually harm the airline, as customers cannot afford their money in this way.,
“They can’t take the risk of taking that gambling,” said Osborne. “We are hearing many people about this that it literally means they can no longer travel by air.”
While the change is deep for something, social media appears that nothing takes seriously. As the announcement went viral, users started comparing it with a famous scene in Tyler Perry’s 2007 box office hit, Why Did I Get Married? Where the character Sheela played by Jill Scott was forced to drive to Colorado after flying due to her great stature. When the flight attendant said that she had to buy two seats, her husband, Mike, Richard T. Played by Jones, said, “I have been asking his big donkey to lose weight for months. Glad someone else said something.”
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Other users took time to express applause for airline changes. A Instagram user wrote, “I was on a flight and this woman was also on my seat, one in a thigh, the other thigh in Meri! In fact, they had to move me and returned me,” a user on Instagram wrote.
Another user feels that the policy is going to be discriminatory – and rapid. “South -West is going to be insolvency so soon. First, they start paying for their bags, now this? And why are they suddenly saying that plus -sized passengers have to buy two seats such as those who already know that they are big, they have to buy two seats?”
“Plus size is defined as someone they see that they see that they are big, or the plus shape is defined because you cannot close your seatbelt properly? Because it can be discriminatory real fast …”
However, in a statement, the South -West states that the policy is only to guarantee passengers that they require the location that they request additional seats less than 0.25% of customers. “To ensure space, we are communicating with customers who need an additional seat, which they should buy on booking,” the company said in a statement.
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