If You Tell Alaska Airlines You’re Gay You Get A 10% Discount
I’m not making this up.
I heard this on the radio this morning so I thought I’d browse around a bit and see if this was true or just one of those shock-jock style gotchas. I mean, wouldn’t this be considered discriminatory, to offer one special group a deal and not others? Not to mention the sheer marketing stupidity of telling all your mainstream customers that, hey, you just ain’t special.
I thought it had to be baloney.
Well, lo and behold…...look at what I found.
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air have announced a new program that will charge heterosexuals 10 percent extra for their air travel to specific locations during the Christmas season.
The company actually offers the 10 percent as a discount but only if the purchaser obtains the ticket through a “gay” page of the company’s website, a location not typically patronized by families seeking travel arrangements, according to an Idaho activist who was distressed by the offering.
Now, admittedly, World Net Daily can lean pretty far to the right at times so checking some of their stuff against other articles is sometimes a good idea for perspective’s sake. But in this case they have the links to the airline’s so-called gay page. And right there it is . Just go there and enter the little code and you get your 10% discount.
I don’t really give the overly atiposed posterior of a cheese eating rodent about this myself. Except for one….small…thing…..
If any airline, restaurant, resort, hobby shop, or any other business you could name were to pull a stunt like this where you would have to basically identify yourself as a heterosexual in order to get a benefit, there would be hell to pay.
I wonder what the rest of Alaska Air’s customers think about this?
