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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This sounds like the Saturday Night Live, “2 A-Holes” skits.
“2 A-Holes fly on an Airplane”
@picshereplz: “I also forgot all the super hot women that post here. Consumerist is a supermodels-only zone.”
::Slowly backs away and closes the browser::
Unless major parts of their “disruption” has been left out of the news report it does seem like SW went a little overboard with calling uniformed (and I assumed armed) officers to come on board. If every self centered individual is now a potential criminal we better build more jails.
Time will not be kind to these two.
Wow, talk about a slow news day… The blond should have gone on TV instead of the butt-ugly brunette. Don’t worry lady, it wasn’t because of your looks. It has something to do with your attitude. Next time they need to find a sugar daddy and have him fly them first class.
I will take them for a ride in my plane!! Oh wait I dont own a plane, thats okay I will still take them for a ride.
It sure is hard being pretty…
Life must suck ass not looking like a gorilla…or thinking you don’t look like a gorilla
Oh…give me a break!!!
Puh-lese go on beliving that, girls. Yes, that must be it. There could be no other explanation. (What a riot.)
@TheOtherJen: Ah, the Florida Gulf coast. It’s like backwoods Georgia without the sophistication.
Really, do you expect any better from a state that can’t hold an election without irregularities and just got around to including the word “Evolution” in their education guidelines (but only with the caveat that it’s a “scientific theory”!)?
The brunette is definitely the the “less pretty” girl that moderately pretty girls hang out with to make themselves look better…
No sweety, you were NOT discriminated against. You were expected to act like an adult. Instead you two acted like a pair of overprivileged children.
Kudos to SWA! And it’s flightcrew.
@picshereplz: Normally, I’d agree with your position, but their appearance is relevant to the story. They opened the door for these comments when they said they were discriminated against for being young, decent-looking girls. The obvious counter to that is to claim that they’re not decent-looking, thereby dismissing the claim. I won’t say they’re hideous or anything, but they’re certainly not to my taste and I wouldn’t give either a second look – especially after spewing such solipsist nonsense as the article shows.
Makeup is for covering up physical flaws, not personality flaws, and these women don’t seem to realize that.
@clank-o-tron: The obvious counter to that is to claim that they’re not decent-looking
No, the obvious counter is to claim that they’re conceited. The obvious high-school-level counter is to insult their appearance.
@solareclipse2: (Meg should go undercover on a flight)
I’d love to read the writeup on that story.
@arch05: (y’all’d hit it)
No. No, I would not hit that.
/yep, still gay
As much as it seems that there are probably some important details left out of this story, there does seem to be a pattern emerging at Southwest. From the whole mini-skirt incident to a few other publicized incidents of people’s attire being appropriate or not, it seems that Southwest’s corporate culture is moving toward being frumpy librarians. I have noticed a change in Southwest’s fun attitude, as subtle as it may be. Frumpy librarians sums it up pretty good. SHHHH!
@badgeman46: More shush’in for the push’in
@SkokieGuy: Winnar!
The only way the guy in the bathroom would have known it was her would’ve been if she harassed him after he got out. That tells us about all we need to know here. Two self-important twits looking for some free publicity. That tv station ought to be ashamed to air such drivel.
Meh, I’m still flying Southwest next month, and I will continue to belong to their FF program. I agree with the other posters, there’s a lot of details these girls left out.
Oh, and I wouldn’t hit that either, even if it was a chance to join the mile high club.
This story reeks of bullshit.
@clank-o-tron: @K-Bo:
The crux of these women’s argument doesn’t have to be that they actually are pretty on some objective level, or on a level where a majority of Consumerist commenters would find to be pretty.
It would be enough to support their argument if these particular people – old, mean, spiteful, ugly people – found them to be attractive/young enough to discriminate against.
Anyway my original point still stands, that any time any woman claims any beauty on the internet, there’s always going to be a bunch of internet neckbeards available to call them things like “woof” and “trolls”.
Definitely omitting several details, not to mention not knowing the difference between pretty and slutty. These girls are much too full of themselves. And I can bet when she asked for that water, she was bitchy or childish about it. And I can bet when she knocked on the bathroom door she said something to the effect of, “Yo, you shoulda jerked off before you left home, jackass. What’d you have for breakfast, a brick? Hurry up! I’m on my period and it’s all clotty and gross!”
I’m sure they were laughing and giggling during the safety demonstration, and talking on their cell phones loudly, being rude, etc. Self centered college brats, think the world revolves around them.
Sorry but the brunette is freaking Hot!!! is she single?
@William Mize: does the change happen on the skyway?? anywhere can be hip or sorry if you let.
Don’t be ashamed, these girls are everywhere not just here in Florida. the ones here just have tans.
Here’s another thought…the chick says she knocked on the door (even though she knew the guy was in there, poor dude probably had IBS and she embarassed him) but then he came out, came to her seat, and yelled at her. Well, think about it…how the heck did he know who to come to and bitch at??? It’s not like those toilets have windowed doors or anything…
I totally call bullshit. If he yelled at her, she must have made a bowel joke or rude comment as he seated himself. Either that, or it never happened. I love it when people think that when others are rude to them, it must be jealousy.
I just watched the video. Yeah, not hot.
@spinachdip: evolution was there before, jackass. Where are you from that’s so far ahead of Florida? And please, elaborate on why. elaborate would mean give examples and stuff.
Those two are pretty much what you get when parents raise kids with ideas like, “the other kids are only (teasing/ignoring/what have you) because they’re jealous of how pretty/smart/rich you are!”
I’m free, white, and over 16! The whole world is my oyster, dammit. How dare you question me or my Entitlement card?!
80 percent of the women in california are more attractive than them.
@Imaginary_Friend: and @nursethalia:
See @Lo-Pan:
@arch05: (not hot after all)
So we agree not to “hit it,” even if for different reasons?
@Antediluvian: Yes, I suppose we do.
@shadow735: Dude, watch the video. She looks like the ugly stepsister when without makeup in daylight.
@Lo-Pan: I live in the 21st Century.
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This is what you get when you THINK you deserve more than everyone else. Wow old people huh? Yeh I bet their sooo jealous of a couple young uglys. I think everyday how I wish I was young, ugly, disrespectful and stupid.
Agree on the Bad Consumer tag needed. These are skanks on the rump of society. Move along…
Hey, when you have no real talent what’s wrong with trying your hand at being an opportunist? At least they put in some half-hearted effort. (Girls, if you’re reading this have someone explain sarcasm to you.)
@Lo-Pan: You don’t by any chance live in the “Redneck Riviera”, do you?
@spinachdip: perhaps the standards, I still learned it. maybe my school was different and yeah it was public.
is that the only reason we’re like Georgia, without the sophistication?
Anyway, these chicks could have been from anywhere. I’ve known plenty of bitches from plenty of places like this. lots of “boston girls” act a bit like this.
And ladies before you get mad by bitches I only mean the ones that act like this.
Alternate title: “When Millienials fly”. God, they really do walk (or fly) among us don’t they?
I know I speak for a number of guys when I say this:
Enough makeup that you need a chisel to take it off is NOT attractive.
You’re not being discriminated against because you’re too beautiful (judging by the photo, they’d get a 3, maybe 4 from me – on a scale of 10), you’re being discriminated against for expecting special privileges and acting like spoiled daddy’s girls.
I can’t wait for reality to hit people like this in the face.
Moral of the story:
Don’t fly Southwest.
Don’t apply makeup with a trowel.
Don’t talk to Southwest flight attendants if they seem to be in a bad mood.
Yeah, there’s something else to this, i’m sure. Nevertheless, people have horrible experiences with United and they’re always great to me. People don’t seem to have horrible experiences with Frontier or Alaska, and they’re always great to me, too.
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I’m too pretty for this website.
Maybe they were “discriminated” against because they were rude and arrogant. I fly with southwest ALL the time, and I always have above-board service. I am a pleasant passenger, and always respectful. I consider myself a good looking girl, and have seen plenty of “10′s” on flights with me, they are treated respectfully.
@DrGirlfriend: Oh honey, aren’t we all?
These two think they are hot?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Sure, they didn’t hit EVERY branch of the ugly tree, but they certainly aren’t attractive enough for people to be jealous.
@arch05: have to check at home my work blocks video and video streams, but from the fact that they are 18 doesnt look good for them.
@DrGirlfriend:
Ditto!
@DrGirlfriend: Admit it, you just come here because you love us