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Southwest Claims Liesha Hailey, Girlfriend Showed Too Much Affection

So They Were Booted From Flight

 

Perhaps Southwest Airlines should have kicked the passengers who complained about L-Word actress Leisha Hailey’s kissing of her girlfriend off the plane rather than kicking the actress off. Hailey was escorted off the plain with one of the flight attendants saying that the airline is a “family” airline. Southwest claims that they were kicked from the plane because of multiple complaints from passengers.

Hailey was not quiet about being booted. She took to twitter and made six separate tweets about being booted. She first wrote “I have been discriminated against by @SouthwestAir. Flt. attendant said that it was a “family” airline and kissing was not ok”.

She then tweeted “This is an outrage. I demand a public apology by @SouthwestAir and a refund. Hate is not a family value. I will never fly this airline”; “We were escorted off the plane for getting upset about the issue. @SouthwestAir endorses homophobic employees. No one made her accountable”; “Since when is showing affection towards someone you love illegal? I want to know what Southwest Airlines considers as ‘family’”; “I know plenty of wonderful same sex families I would like to introduce them to. Boycott @SouthwestAir if you are gay. They don’t like us”; and finally “Did I mention to @SouthwestAir that I have a lot of their actions recorded on audio and video? RT #boycottSouthwest #discrimination”

Southwest is trying to explain this saying that “Initial reports indicate that we received several passenger complaints characterizing their behavior as excessive.” They went on to say “Our crew, responsible for the comfort of all Customers on board, approached the passengers based solely on behavior and not gender. The conversation escalated to a level that was better resolved on the ground, as opposed to in flight.” Of course, what they forget is that there are people for whom a peck on the cheek or holding hands is too much and too excessive, and that they had a choice between being discriminating assholes and telling the other passengers to cope. The bit about it being a family airline certainly did not help their case.

Nor does the fact that it is on tape.

Finally, TMZ reports that “SWA notes, ‘We are ready to work directly with the passengers involved to offer our heartfelt apologies for falling short of their expectation.’”

Yeah, who are you going to be more concerned about? The bigots or the victims here?