Passengers take fun out of Southwest’s supermodel airplane

Try to have a little bit of fun and those pesky passengers get all bent out of shape. Last month, Southwest Airlines joined up with Sports Illustrated to paint the side of one of their Boeing 737s with the image of Bar Rafaeli, an Israeli supermodel, in a white, two-piece swimsuit. It’s a brief promotion aimed at promoting the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and tickle a few passengers who happen to randomly be riding on (or near) the aircraft. Wouldn’t your day get instantly better if you were waiting to take off at 7AM and saw a giant supermodel taxi past you?

But not everyone is as tickled as we are. A slew of passengers, many on Southwest’s corporate blog are complaining about the paint job, equating the image to “soft porn.” They want it taken down.

Think they’re being ridiculous? Check out the gallery below. Think they’re right? Read on:

%Gallery-44713%Have you ever seen soft porn? It doesn’t look like this. Women less adorned are all around us, from billboards in New York City to The Sears Catalogue to, oh, I don’t know, THE BEACH.

Southwest is just having a little bit of fun turning heads in the direction of their aircraft, but if you can’t stand the sight of a pretty Israeli woman, cover your eyes or stop flying for the next couple of months until they repaint her. The promotion only lasts a few more weeks.

Supermodel Banished from US

The Horror! Say it with me: The Horror!

What has the world come to when we are denying supermodels
entry into this country? How completely utterly sad and tragic.

Yes, according to this report, former Sports
Illustrated swimsuit model May Andersen was
arrested and denied entry into the United States recently. What did she do? Well, apparently she attacked a flight
attendant during Martinair flight from Amsterdam to Miami. There are few details about what she said or did, but the
case against her says she became "unruly and violent" on the flight last Thursday. She was held in the
Miami-Dade County jail and then moved to federal immigration custody.

Shouldn’t we just forgive and forget?
I mean, we need all the supermodels we can get, right?