I see so much positivity with this post. Hopefully the fat man will be more motivated to care for his life and lost some weight.

gift can be used as a verb

There is no reason at all to be ThaT FAT. But most if fat people do not have brains. JUST START to eat less.

By the way, "gift" can also be a verb. Check your sources!

Did you read the article? There was no next (or alternative flight). I pay for
a seat and I don't want someone taking up his seat and half of mine (it has
happened in the past) unless that person reimburses me for the half of
my seat he uses.

No one would give up a seat and wait for another plane for nothing. When people agree to give up a seat it's usually because the airline is offering travel vouchers. Why would an airline give away money for an overweight person? I am sympathetic to the fact that they would have to pay for a second seat, but that is their own doing. 400 pounds is ALOT .I don't want to pay for a seat and then get half a seat. someone I don't know pushing up on me. It's not fair. It wouldn't have mattered anyway because there was no alternate flight which is why he couldn't go at all. I just think that if you are going to be obese there are consequences that go along with that. No one has to be obese.

Why should anyone have to rearrange their schedule/life, because this person couldn't fit the seat? He knows how big he is and that he wouldn't fit the seat, so he should have thought about that ahead of time.

but gift can also be used as a verb, i.e. to gift something to someone....

The word "gift" can, indeed, be used as either a noun or a verb.

"I was given a gift." - noun

"I have been gifted with insight." - verb

I fly Southwest all the time. I have been at the gate when they announce that someone needs to be on an already booked flight for whatever reason. When they do, the person(s) who volunteer to take a later flight gets comped pretty well, with free tickets good for any destination or some such offer. Maybe they offered this to the passengers on this flight and no one took them up on their offer.

If people would actually read the policies of the airlines, maybe there wouldn't be such a problem at the gates and security. I always read the policy page of the airline and that of TSA to see if there have been any changes. I have never had a problem at a security check point or at the gate.

I really wish people would stop blaming Southwest for their own failures to plan ahead. I realize that this gentleman may not have had time to plan ahead for this particular flight. But it was also not his first time flying and he knew how small the seats were and how big his was.

It always astounds me when people blame Southwest for missing the first leg of their flight, but they didn't get to the airport until 10 min before the flight was scheduled to take off. HELLO!!!!! Or they stand there and scream at the ticket counter employees because they missed their connecting flight due to bad weather. Was the ticket counter employee responsible for the sudden snow storm?? Or they sit in the bar drink too much and then get mad at the gate employees because they are too drunk to fly. IT WAS YOUR OWN STUPID FAULT FOR BEING SUCH A DRUNK!!!!! Stop blaming others for your own situations.

I am wondering if there were not any other accommodations available on another airline. I've seen instances where Southwest wasn't able to to accommodate a passenger with a Southwest ticket, but the ticket staff found the passenger a ticket on another airline that may have been departing near the departure time of the Southwest flight. Southwest, just like any other business, is willing to work with people if people are willing to work with them.

you're a moron, don't give English lessons online if you don't know what you're talking about