Extremely Considerate Hefty Gentleman Bought Himself 2 Seats On A Flight Only To Have Spirit Airlines Give His Other Seat Away

Fox8- A Spirit Airlines passenger who booked two seats on a flight due to his size says he felt humiliated when the airline gave away one of the seats without asking on an overbooked flight.

Jose Cordova of Westminster, Colorado, says he purchased two neighboring seats on each of his flights to and from Las Vegas for a getaway trip with his two friends.

He purchased the extra seat because he knew he wouldn’t be comfortable in one seat, he says.

“I am a big person and I knew one seat wouldn’t fit for me, and to be comfortable, I wanted to have two seats,” Cordova said.

Cordova’s friend Scott Tenorio says he also called ahead to ask for a seat belt extender for his friend in an attempt to be proactive.

On the group’s flight to Las Vegas, the three passengers occupied four seats without issue, but on the way home Wednesday, they say Spirit Airlines took back one of Cordova’s seats without asking due to an overbooked flight.

Unwilling to take a voucher and later flight, Cordova says the airline forced him to move.

“I told them I had bought two seats. [They said] ‘Well, talk to them when you get off the plane,’” he said.

Cordova says the situation was embarrassing, and he felt humiliated.

“People were just watching him, and it’s almost like they look at, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to sit next to that,’” Tenorio said.

“I could see in his face. He was sweating. I was asking him how his trip was, and he was just, you could tell, humiliated,” Tenorio said.

This is Vegas: over the last 48 hours, you’ve lost thousands of dollars while smoking hundreds of cigarettes and drinking exclusively Irish coffees with extra whipped cream, sitting at the blackjack table for 2 straight days. You were up, then down, then MASSIVELY down. The only break came when your friends carried you over to the breakfast buffet, which you’d been promised was comped (it wasn’t). You didn’t speak to a single woman the entire weekend, you’ve neither changed outfits nor showered, and you’ve aged 13 years in 48 hours. Now, you board your SPIRIT AIRLINES flight back to New York only to realize you’re stuffed next to Jose Cordova, a heftier gentleman who desperately tried to avoid the very situation we’re in, who did everything he could to protect you from his body. He’s sweating, you’re shaking, and the pilot is balls-deep in some hooker and won’t even get to the plane for another hour. If there’s a darker hell on earth, I’ve yet to find it.

Is there any settlement amount too high for such a crime against humanity? Spirit Airlines owes both Jose Cordova and his seat neighbor a billion dollars. Because make no mistake about it: Jose Cordova is an American hero. So often we hear stories about people with a little heft being asked to buy a second seat on an airplane, refusing, and causing a ruckus. Not Jose. This beautiful man is fully aware of his body and the effect it has on adjacent airline passengers. He proactively purchased a second seat, not for his own comfort, mind you, but so that the arms of people next to him would remain outside of his body. The evil Spirit Airlines overbooked their flight and forced him to give up his extra seat, ruining his magnanimous gesture and the lives of those around him in one fell swoop.

PS- I’d like to point out that nobody died in this blog and the hero of the story has a beautiful body.