Former 90210 actress AnnaLynne McCord recently shamed Southwest Airlines for “bullying” a family of passengers. She alleges that when her fellow passengers Jake Lapp and Davod Lionel tried to board with their two daughters during Family Boarding, they were “told that they didn’t count as family” and not allowed to board the plane with other families.
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Southwest Airlines has yet to respond publicly to McCord, however a spokesperson for the airlines said they “don’t have any existing reports associated with the Customers’ travel experience”.
Southwest's family boarding policy is children 6 and under. From the picture in twitter, the one girl does look young enough to qualify. I've never seen Southwest GAs question the relationship of people boarding with children, but that does seem that the GA did in this case. I've seen what looks like parents and grandparents all board with the children.
how are they exploiting the system? If they really did have children under 2, they should be allowed. But I agree th kids were probably too old and that has-been actress wanted to rant. Does anyone know th kids' age?
Good lord, that 2-page rant was cringeworthy... isn't it possible the kids were too old to qualify for family boarding, rather than the apparently default assumption of discrimination?
Meg Butler August 30, 2017
Southwest's family boarding policy is children 6 and under. From the picture in twitter, the one girl does look young enough to qualify. I've never seen Southwest GAs question the relationship of people boarding with children, but that does seem that the GA did in this case. I've seen what looks like parents and grandparents all board with the children.
I totally agree with Southwest - a gay couple with children does not qualify as a Family.
how are they exploiting the system? If they really did have children under 2, they should be allowed. But I agree th kids were probably too old and that has-been actress wanted to rant. Does anyone know th kids' age?
How ridiculous. Two guys trying to exploit the system to board 8 spots earlier. They should be ashamed of their selves.
Good lord, that 2-page rant was cringeworthy... isn't it possible the kids were too old to qualify for family boarding, rather than the apparently default assumption of discrimination?