{"id":86876,"date":"2026-03-26T08:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86876"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:56:33","slug":"sponsored-daily-mail-2-1m-followers-woman-says-southwest-blocked-her-at-the-gate-over-her-size-told-to-buy-a-450-second-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/sponsored-daily-mail-2-1m-followers-woman-says-southwest-blocked-her-at-the-gate-over-her-size-told-to-buy-a-450-second-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman says Southwest blocked her at the gate over her size, told to buy a $450 second seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZpkdC.img?w=534&amp;h=289&amp;m=6&amp;x=192&amp;y=73&amp;s=198&amp;d=198\" alt=\"Ruby Cosby claimed she was a Southwest Airlines employee told her she would have to purchase an extra seat due to her size\u00a0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A woman said Southwest Airlines banned her from boarding her flight after a check-in attendant claimed she was too large to fit in a seat, leaving her the only option <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/woman-says-southwest-blocked-her-at-the-gate-over-her-size-told-to-buy-a-450-second-seat\/ar-AA1ZpOff?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c4e720672f4242b94cb09619514b3f&amp;cvpid=b74f74b7452e4c77b132b4967174daf1&amp;ei=51\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A woman said Southwest Airlines banned her from boarding her flight after a check-in attendant claimed she was too large to fit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ruby-Cosby.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86879,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86876\/revisions\/86879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}