It seems that the “Too Sexy For Southwest” lady has some imitators! Is there room on the Today show and in Playboy for two more? Travel Troubleshooter columnist Christopher Elliott alerts us to this story out of Tampa, Florida
USF student Nisreen Swedberg and friend Sarah Williams claim the flight crew was rude to them from the moment they stepped onto the plane at Tampa International Airport on February 14.
Swedberg said she asked a flight attendant for a bottle of water and was told she could wait until the rest of the flight was served.
“And I patiently waited and then when they came around with water, they skipped me,” Swedberg said.
At one point, Williams had to use the plane’s bathroom. She saw another passenger in it, and when he hadn’t come out 15 minutes later, she knocked on the door.
When he came out, Williams says the man came over to her seat and yelled a profanity at her. Williams admits she yelled a profanity back at him but was puzzled when she says the flight crew only questioned her.
“I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us,” she said. “[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger.”
Southwest says the women were being disruptive. They claim to have been banned from all future Southwest flights, including their return flight, after being escorted from the plane by the LAPD. No charges were filed.
They seem ready for their close up, don’t they? See, this is why I always fly wearing a bathrobe and rollers.
Too pretty to fly? [Tampa 10 via Elliott]
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Hooray for the Florida education system! Its like so much better or something.
The bathroom story doesn’t make a lot of sense. We’re asked to believe that she knocked on the bathroom door, went back to her seat, and when the man emerged he magically knew who had knocked on the door and where that person was seated.
Unless SW bathrooms have glass doors (which would surprise me greatly) I don’t think that setup is possible.
Stupid girls with their self-entitlement issues. Lets revisit them in say, twelve years, when even their husbands/boyfriends don’t think their hot enough for their nasty attitudes anymore.
I think it’s perfectly fair to critique by the toughest possible standards the attractiveness of these women. It would be one thing if all they were saying was that they were good looking, but to claim that they’re somehow so unusually pretty as to arouse such intense jealousy in the crew that they go out of their way to treat them like crap…well, that begs harsher scrutiny than one might normally give.
k, I watched the video & listened, after doing so I am pretty sure that they were kicked off for acting like douchebag asshats, NOT because they are so pretty. Grow up girls & quit being such asshats.
@Diet-Orange-Soda: It’s so you don’t have to manually give her the floor-to-ceiling look. The camera did it for you.
Oh local news, is there anything you won’t do?
The bathroom incident should had gone something like this:
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@noquarter: Bullshit. I call shenanigans.
We’re supposed to believe that one of the flight attendants — who were so gosh darn mean to them because they were “too pretty”– just casually pointed and told them, “yeah, it was him. That’s the guy who turd-blocked you!”.
This story gets stupider by the minute.
I’m amazed that the brunette thinks she’s hot…maybe if I was drunk enough…
Who wants to go to the toilet straight after some bloke has been in there 15 minutes anyway? Find another that will be more pleasant to visit.
I suppose the guy in the bathroom who allegedly yelled at her was jealous of her beauty too, huh? He probably wanted to look like a hooker and realized that these two losers were doing a better job.
This might be a strange thing to say but…
My mother once told me that the world hates pretty girls. I think she’s right. My mother, being a beautiful woman who looks easily half her age, is constantly the victim of the most harsh customer service (especially from women and older men). She is exceptionally polite and personable.
It is probably true that these girls were not as demure and charming as they could be, but I seriously doubt they acted in a way that anyone else would not have. Attractive young women are scrutinized far more for their actions than anyone else is. It’s a strange bias, but from my observations, completely true.
@Kat@Work: I haven’t flown in ages, but I thought I heard that you can’t take liquids aboard planes anymore – not that that makes any difference to how vain and shallow these 2 were/are.
I picture two obnoxious, loud, giggling chicas going though that typical phase in life where they consider themselves the center of the universe and think that everyone wants to hear their “inner voices”.
See the girl smirk/smile right after the words “because of my looks” come out of her mouth. It’s so freakin’ preposterous that even SHE can’t believe that she said it.
Being a guy who has functioning eyes and ears, I struggle to remember any incidents where people, especially male people, didn’t fall all over themselves to help “hot” girls out.
BTW, she LOOKS like she plays goalie for a dart team. Of course that’s what a steady diet of nicotine and Jägermeister does for a young lady’s appearance.
Well, i cant wait til next month to see them naked in Playboy
ughhhh this makes me want to vomit. While I agree the world hates pretty young women, these girls are simply girls, not women judging from their oh-so-mature behavior. Nothing ladylike about it. Bet they were on the phone with daddy 2 seconds after landing. Hopefully the flight attendant will put them out the emergency exit next time.
Being ‘pretty’ is a love/hate thing for me — I paid for a good chunk of college through modeling (with my clothes on, thanks). But getting taken seriously in the Real World? Please. I’m dual-degreed in chemical engineering and physics from a top-10 undergrad school and if I had a penny for every time someone made some sort of sarcastic comment about my intelligence. faves include “Wow, I didn’t know I was dating a genius”, “Did you sleep with a professor when you were in undergrad?”, “The engineering program must have been alot easier at your school” and “I guess they needed more women physicists real bad”.
I’m fully prepared for this shit to only get worse — I’m starting my MBA next fall and gosh, god forbid women, you know, do shit with their lives.
[end feminist rant]
Those girls are pretty ugly and I don’t think they were kicked off the airplane for the reasons they give.
The Blonde one is pretty, but the burnette is UGLY. She looks like Michael Jackson on a bad day. I’d kick her off the plane because I’d be afraid she’d molest little boys.
Southwest’s response to this tripe:
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DON’T LOOK AT THE MOLE ON THE BRUNETTE’S CHIN!
See, the Southwest crew had an issue with the mole.
Moleists.
Meh, I am going to have to take the airlines on this one, they just look like the type. This reminds of when someone says “your a racist!”, when you don’t have an extra pen, or the only one you have happens to be a black pen, while you are holding a blue one.
What’s really amusing is when a few girls post their story of woe on a website expecting to get treated like the near-royalty that they clearly think they are, and instead get the complete smackdown I think they really needed to bring them back down to reality.
Get over yourselves.
@K-Bo: That is the longest nonsensical sentence I have ever seen in my life.
“no one looked like us except us.”
Funny. Same thing applies to me! I look just like me, everytime I look!
Friggin snotty stuck up $#*@$s