Alaska ailines gay couple leave plane
Gay couple claims Alaska Airlines told them to leave airplane to allow vertical couple to settle together
A gay couple claims that they were forced to leave an Alaska Airlines flight after they refused to sit separately so that a direct couple could settle together.
David Cooley, who owns the widespread West Hollywood homosexual bar The Abbey, said he and his partner were in their assigned premium seats waiting to begin their trip from New York to LA on Alaska Airlines flight 1407.
After they had been in their seats “for a while,” a flight attendant approached them asking for Cooley’s partner to advance to an economy seat so that a heterosexual couple could sit together.
When Cooley said they were a couple and did not want to rest apart, the attendant said they could either make the move or deboard the plane.
“We could not bear the feeling of humiliation for an entire cross-country flight and left the plane,” Cooley said in a Facebook announce on Sunday. “I cannot believe that an airline in this day and age would hand a straight couple preferential treatment over a gay couple and go so far as to ask us to leave.”
Cooley and his partner eventually booked a flight on Delta A
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David Cooley, the owner of a lgbtq+ bar in West Hollywood, California, called the Abbey, wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he and his partner had boarded a flight to Los Angeles from New York when a flight attendant asked if Cooley’s companion would move from his seat “so a couple could sit together.”
Cooley said he told the attendant that the two men were a couple and that he wanted to sit with his significant other . But the attendant gave Cooley’s partner a choice: Move for the other couple or get off the plane.
“We could not bear the feeling of humiliation for an entire cross-country flight and left the plane,” Cooley said. “I cannot believe that an airline in this day and age would give a straight couple preferential treatment over a gay couple and leave so far as to ask us to leave.”
Through a spokesman, Coo
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David Cooley said a flight attendant asked his traveling companion to give up his premium seat on Sunday, so another couple could sit together.
When Cooley and his companion explained they were a couple and also wanted to sit together, his companion was told to either give up his premium seat and move to coach, or get off the plane.
Cooley said he and his companion chose to leave, because they felt humiliated, and will never zoom Alaska Airlines again.
"We could not bear the feeling of humiliation for an entire cross-country flight and left the plane. I cannot believe that an airline in this day and age would give a straight couple preferential treatment over a gay couple and go so far as to request us to leave," he wrote in a Facebook post.
Alaska Airlines has issued a statement in response to the incident:
"We mistakenly booked two people in one seat. We are deeply sorry for the situation, and are investigating the details."
The airline added that it has a zero-tolerance policy for discriminat
Alaska Airlines is investigating an incident after a queer couple was allegedly asked to switch seats with a heterosexual couple who wanted to sit together.
David Cooley, the founder of a West Hollywood lgbtq+ bar known as The Abbey, wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he and his partner were traveling on Alaska Airlines flight 1407 on Sunday from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Recent York to Los Angeles International Airport when he was approached by a flight attendant. Cooley claimed the flight attendant asked him and his spouse to move from their assigned seats in Premium class to coach because a heterosexual couple wanted to sit together.
Cooley explained to the flight attendant that he and his travel companion were a couple and wanted to sit together, but the flight attendant allegedly gave them the choice of sitting in coach or removing themselves from the flight. Cooley said the two made the judgment to leave the plane because they "could not bear the feeling of humiliation for an entire cross-country flight."
"I cannot trust that an airline in this day and age would give a direct couple preferential treatment over a gay couple and go so far as to ask us to leave
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When gay businessman David Cooley boarded Alaska Airlines flight 1407 from Los Angeles to New York this past weekend, he expected to enjoy the airline’s top-rated service and the amenities that accompanied his Premium Class ticket. Instead, however, he said he and his explore companion were subjected to “humiliation” instead.
“I have never been so discriminated against while traveling before,” Cooley, owner of iconic Los Angeles gay bar The Abbey, wrote in a public Facebook post. He said he and his travel companion were “removed” from their flight “to give preferential treatment to a straight couple.”
“After my traveling companion and I had been seated in our assigned seats for a while, we were approached by the flight attendant and my companion was asked to strategy from his premium seat to coach, so a couple could sit together,” Cooley wrote. “I explained that we were a couple and wanted to sit together. He was given a choice to either give up the premium seat and shift to coach or become off the plane.”
Cooley and his travel companion decided they “could not bear the feeling of humiliation for an entire