More reason to avoid Southwest
Flight delays, jampacked planes, no food, no seat assignments, no frequent flier miles. There's always been a good reason to avoid flying Southwest Airlines. Now I have another: fear that the clothes Nazis will decide my attire is too provocative.
It seems that woman the other day in San Diego almos kicked off a flight wasn't the only woman harassed for having too much Another woman came forward and said she was forced to wrap herself in a blanket on a recent flight from roasting Las Vegas to burning Burbank because the flight attendant thought her dress showed too much skin. Click here to see her outfit on a news clip.
Who wouldn't wear a halter dress in the summer in Las Vegas?
From an AP story
A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines employees made her cover up on a recent flight, leading jet-setters to ask: Will my outfit fly?Setara Qassim said a flight attendant confronted her during the trip from Tucson, Arizona, to Burbank, California, and asked whether she had a sweater to go over her green halter-style dress.
Last week, 23-year-old Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee pulled her aside as she was preparing to board a plane departing San Diego for Tucson in July and told her she was dressed too provocatively to fly.
This is particularly shocking for us SoCal folks, of course, since we're apt to see more skin than that on any given day in the mall, the street, even the office.
Comments
Now that we've solved all the other problems of the world, we might as well deal with Southwest Airlines' "make it up as you go along" dress policy.
If this whole story isn't just another Internet hoax, don't you just know that this whole "controversy" arose because a single person complained to a flight attendent?
Aside from the fact that it's almost impossible to see another passenger from your seat, shouldn't Southwest have handled this the American way by having the lady stand up, and then ask for a vote of the passengers?
By the way, here is a 1972 Southwest Airlines TV spot that you might want to view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7JApjgIGw
Posted by: Greg Nelson | September 13, 2007 4:49 PM
Dress looks fine, but if she has big breasts and no bra, it could have been more revealing up close. Still, unless there is a dress code published for all passengers to see and clearly understand, with photos of acceptable and "unacceptable" attire, this sort of subjective enforcement is not only ridiculous but seems illegal.
If rules are published, passengers would at least have a focal point for a protest or just choose to accept it.
And you make a valid point about the weather: when it's over a hundred degrees outside, people will wear less. I recall people flying to Hawaii already in their resort attire.
It does make sense to bring a wrap on board because the a/c can become quite cool, but coming from a "sassy," read cheap, airline like SW this is ridiculous.
What I find far MORE offensive on SW is the familiar way the attendants address the customers, but worst of all, those seats at the front of the planes which face each other, so just when you've settled in for leg room, some fat slob will stick his bare feet or dirty socks across right on the seat next to you, OR the way little kids cry and try to get you to play with them.
Oh, yeah, there was a woman with a crying baby thrown off -- that is wrong, we were all loud babies once. Another woman was arrested for dumping water on the floor when she couldn't take it past security.
Airlines have become a place with attendants are dictators, and you sign away your human rights and rights to dignity under the guise of "public safety."
This starts by women being patted down spread-eagled, barefoot and felt up their bosoms and along your private parts by the TSA, so by the time you get to the plane, you've left your dignity behind already. It ALL sucks.
Posted by: jill | September 13, 2007 9:21 PM