Actress AnnaLynne McCord has written an open letter to Southwest airlines after two young girls and their fathers weren’t allowed to join the ‘family boarding’ line.
“Have you ever felt bullied?” McCord writes.
“Have you ever been picked on? Have you ever been rejected? The one who got left out because for some reason to another person you didn’t measure up; you did not belong?
“A couple of days ago, the young girls in this photo were made to feel just that by individuals who wear your logo and represent your company,” she continues.
“It was their first flight ever and they were so excited to join their daddies on a family trip”.
She goes on to say that the two fathers and their girls weren’t allowed to board with other families—being told by staff that they did not qualify.
“Why would your company representatives (the desk agents boarding the plane on behalf of your corporation) believe that it is okay to reject these little girls’ love for their fathers, making them feel that they are not good enough? That their family should be left out?
“Is that not a form of bullying? Is that not a form of hate? I certainly wouldn’t call it love.
McCord implores Southwest to hire staff who “despise hate, note love; who embrace difference, not look down on it”.
“Please don’t allow your company to promote the hate that destroys the pure innocence of the love of a child,” she ends the letter.
Southwest airlines have previously been accused of discriminating against same-sex parents and their children.
A family from New York — two fathers, three kids and their grandmother—were denied from ‘family boarding’ in May this year.
