This has been swa policy for around a decade. An influencer made a video about it and now Fox reported it in their daily outrage feed (gotta keep that blood pressure up). SWA flies the fattest people to the fattest places in the country. Some of our own pilots could probably use two seats. They tried going the hard line route and got canceled on social media by Kevin Smith before canceling someone was even a thing. This is their way to avoid all that.