Dear Southwest Airlines, you talk a lot about LUV, but I am sorry to say you failed miserably on that front.
My family had a simple request for some needed compassion. Instead of understanding during a pretty challenging situation, we got yelling and mistreatment.
Here is the story. We asked to allow my family with a cerebral palsy daughter and two minor children with autism to pre-board together. You see, getting our daughter out of her wheelchair with all her tubes and gadgets takes many hands. Leaving behind kids with autism to accomplish that feat just didn’t make a lot of sense to us. But, Southwest apparently felt it was best to split us up and treat us extremely rudely for asking.
Our lesson — and a lesson for anyone that needs a little extra support — do not fly Southwest. I would hate for anyone else to experience what we just did.