Passenger explodes. Can't cram two cats under her airline seat!

The video of Alex losing her sheet was garnered 222 million likes on TikTok. Not a joke. This really captures the spirit of the holidays.

I call on all Spritzler readers to boycott Southwest Airlines. Unless you own less than two cats.

Update! It's been brought to my attention that Alaskan Airlines was the offender, not Southwest. Please extend the ban to include Alaskan Airlines.

Southwest? Until they agreed to "pay" the ban remains.

Passenger explodes at Alaska Airlines staff for refusing to let her cram 2 cats under her seat: ‘You’re ruining Christmas!’

By Natalie O'Neill, NY Post

Published Dec. 24, 2025, 6:07 p.m. ET

Her Christmas claws are out!

A holiday traveler dubbed “Two Cats Karen” was filmed blowing up at Alaska Airlines workers in Las Vegas who wouldn’t let her cram a pair of felines under her seat — as she shouted, “Why are you ruining Christmas?!”

Alexandra Compton was trying to fly home to Portland, Oregon Sunday when an agent explained there wasn’t enough room for both of her cats in the same carrier, sending her into an angry rant.

“Show me the policy, then, before I booked the flight, that said that I had to have a certain weight of cat to go under the seat!” she snapped at the employee, according to a viral Tiktok video.

The airline worker then calmly explained it wasn’t about weight of the pets, but rather that the kitties didn’t have a full range of motion and would need separate containers.

But Compton’s outburst only got louder and more hiss-terical.

“You haven’t even seen my cat, so you’re not letting me go home for Christmas!” she fumed.“You’re telling me I can’t go home for Christmas!”

“I don’t have people here to watch my cat. ‘I don’t live here. I live in Oregon. I have an Oregon ID. I need to go home for Christmas,” she said in the footage, titled “Two Cats Karen.”

The video, which has raked in 222,000 million likes on TikTok, then shows the airline worker asking her to lower her voice.

“My mom tried to and your website obviously isn’t user-friendly, so I’m asking you to show me right now, where she would’ve learned that before she booked my flight, so this issue would’ve never happened?”

Compton also claimed to have travelled for “many years” with her kitties without any issues.

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“I’m letting you know that there is a policy around your pets that don’t have enough room, and you don’t get to decide the company policy,” the employee said.

Alaska Airline’s policy states that “up to two pets of the same species and similar size may travel in the same carrier,” as long as “no body parts protrude from the carrier and the animals are not in distress.”

It wasn’t immediately clear if the cats were in distress. Alaska Airlines didn’t immediately return a request for comment Friday.

Compton ultimately bought a second carrier and got on a later flight with both cats, according to a Facebook post by Compton.

“They made me leave the airport, buy a second pet carrier, a second seat to put the second cat under On a whole new flight 3 hours later,” she wrote.

“F—k Alaska Airlines, their ‘policies’ and lack of customer service. I hope you all get coal for Christmas,” Compton said.