Posted on 07/23/2014 9:36:52 AM PDT by Dallas59
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Twin Cities man is upset about the way his family was treated on a Southwest Airlines flight because of a tweet.
Duff Watson says he was asked to de-board a flight from Denver to Minneapolis with his two kids on Sunday after an agent didn’t like a tweet he wrote about her service.
Watson and the agent had a disagreement before boarding initially.
“I was left, you know, very upset, very embarrassed, very humiliated,” Watson said.
He’s an “A-List” passenger, which means he gets priority boarding. But a gate agent wouldn’t let his 6-year-old and 9-year-old board with him — so they’d all have to wait to board later.
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Twitter, as far as I can see, is a swamp of moronic babbling.
By self consumed kids ( or adults acting like kids)who think what they have to say or what they comment on is actually important.
Excellent comment. Stealing it, pretending it's mine. The Tao gets around.
Let me add: I fly Southwest a lot, although I’m not A-List. When I’m traveling with my wife, we’re always separated. With regard to traveling with minor children and others requiring assistance, these people board immediately after A-List and prior to people like me. They should not have a problem finding adjacent seats. Minimizing the time and expense in the boarding process is part of Southwest’s business model. It helps keep cost and ticket prices down.
SW has the best prices and they’ve always treated me fine.
Kind of like "winning" an auction.
Southwest is a joke. Stopped flying them years ago.
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So really what you are telling us is that your opinion of SW is based on extremely dated information and should not be used to judge who they are today.
Thanks.
If you use it to make money, let me know how you did it.
“Can I ask a stupid question? How did SW Airlines people find his Twitter feed right then when he was still at the airport? “
That’s what I’m curious to know as well.
To believe Duff Watson’s story we have to assume that the SW Airlines staff knew what his twitter handle is and that they had enough free time to go surfing for his comments.
If the article had included his twitter address we could at least look to see if the comment is actually there.
I moved to a place where they are only 2% of the population. Most of them are on the eastern end of the state. The few out here are either just normal or foreign born. None of that thug life crap going on.
Better to keep ones thoughts to themselves and appear to be stupid than to Tweet and remove all doubt.
No doubt Katy Perry could have used that famous advice.
Whether the man was right or wrong, it was his right to tweet the message.
There was no threat, real or implied in the message.
No one has the right to tell him to delete anything.
Kimberly was on a power trip, and needs to grow a thicker skin if you are in customer service.
Having not flown in 11 years, I can see why I do not miss it.
She's far from alone in that area.
I’m thinking they have somebody whose job it is (in real time) to look at tweets that have hashtags mentioning SW.
Sounds like the passenger AND the agent are both on the “A-List”.
Katy made $40 mil last year and is an Obama supporter.
By MSM definition she’s a genius.
People who are so petty as to berate an employee who is merely following orders are among my least favorite jerks. It's often people who claim some sort of privilege. I bet this a-hole was kicking up quite a ruckus, too.
Haven’t flown since 2006. I have about 40 years left of life and will never fly again. I have no desire to see anything I cannot drive to. I like being a close to my property person. Home and family that’s my pleasures.
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