Another Woman Claims Southwest Airlines Forced Her to Cover Up on Flight

FOX ^ | 09/13/07 | Unknown

[Froufrou]

A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines Co. employees made her cover up on a recent flight.

Setara Qassim told KNBC-TV in Los Angeles that a flight attendant confronted her during the trip from Tucson, Ariz., to Burbank, Calif., and asked if she had a sweater to go over her green halter-style dress.

Qassim, 21, said she was forced to wrap a blanket around herself for the rest of the flight. She complained that if Southwest wants passengers to dress a certain way, it should publish a dress code.

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 on the plane.

Ebbert said she was humiliated and felt the stares of other passengers who had overheard the verbal dressing-down.

Airline spokesman Chris Mainz said the company had no record that Qassim ever complained.

Messages left with Qassim, who lives in southern California, were not immediately returned to The Associated Press.

Mainz said Dallas-based Southwest — which dressed its stewardesses in hot pants and called itself "the love airline" back in the 1970s — relies on employees to decide if a passenger's attire may offend other customers.

"We don't have a dress code. We rely on our employees to use common sense, good judgment and good taste," Mainz said. "It's so rare for us to have to address a customer's clothing issue."

American Airlines claims the right to refuse to carry passengers for a variety of reasons including being drunk, barefoot, having an offensive odor or being "clothed in a manner that would cause discomfort or offense to other passengers."

[Froufrou]

You are obviously in attack mode. Nothing more liberal than that.

Your premise that summer flights cause fewer people to wear business attire cannot be proved as long as there are people who don’t lose their ability to make fashion choices [as opposed to taking fashion risks] when the temperature exceeds 72 degrees.

Go ahead and wear your halters on planes. I really don’t give a rat’s patooti. And have a nice day! :o)

[colorado tanker]

summer flights, which are typically air-conditioned

That sure doesn't describe the flights I've been on for years. Typically, on boarding in the summer the cabin is somewhere around a toasty 80 degrees with barely a breath coming out of the ventilation, apparently to save money. They turn the A.C. on when they've cranked up the main engines, which usually gives me about a 20 minute sauna. So, I usually arrive in pitted out clothes. Just another way flying these days is so much fun.

That said, I was delightfully surprised boarding two Alaska flights this summer, where the A.C. was cranked to the max on the ground. Kudos to them.

[calcowgirl]

You are obviously in attack mode. Nothing more liberal than that.

Challenging questionable posts is neither attacking nor liberal.

Your premise that summer flights cause fewer people to wear business attire...

Once again, you erroneously represent my "premise" and avoid a very simple question.

Go ahead and wear your halters on planes. I really don’t give a rat’s patooti. And have a nice day! :o)

What I wear is not the subject here. The subject was an attractive 23 year old young lady travelling on Southwest Airlines.

Have a nice day!

[Froufrou]

What percent of air-travelers would you guess wear “business dress” on flights to Tucson during the summer? Answer: "I don't know. Why don't you tell me, and don't forget to link your source!" ;o)

[calcowgirl]

Hell to tha naw, that’s so bloody funny! :]

Welcome to the alternative universe! :-D

[calcowgirl]

Emphasis added from prior post:

What percent of air-travelers would you guess wear “business dress” on flights to Tucson during the summer?

[Froufrou]

You asked me to guess. I said I don’t know. So tell me, what percentage?

Tick...tock...tick...tock

[Froufrou]

That’s almost ironic, that a flight to one of the coldest states would crank up the air!

I’ve always wanted to go to Alaska but I usually try to fly Southwest and I don’t think they fly there.

I’ve had bad experiences with Delta and American.

[calcowgirl]

 

guess

PRONUNCIATION:	gs
VERB:	Inflected forms: guessed, guess·ing, guess·es
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1a. To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information. b. To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information. 2. To form a correct estimate or conjecture of: guessed the answer. 3. To suppose; think: I guess he was wrong.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To make an estimate or conjecture: We could only guess at her motives. 2. To estimate or conjecture correctly.
NOUN:	1. An act or instance of guessing. 2. A conjecture arrived at by guessing.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English gessen, probably of Scandinavian origin. See ghend- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	guesser —NOUN

[Froufrou]

Bwahahaha! I don’t know what your problem is, I just hope you’re not cybercontagious! ROTFLMAO!

[colorado tanker]

All I could think of is Alaska Air caters to folks who aren't acclimated to hot weather. :-))

United also has some pretty lousy service, although I heard they plan yet another campaign to convince us they're changing and this time they really, really, really mean it, unlike the all the previous times.

I like Frontier, our home-grown airline. Good service and if you monitor their web fares good prices too.

[TommyDale]

Good luck wearing your blinders on your air flights.

[Froufrou]

I don’t look around much when I fly so I don’t need blinders. I am afraid of heights and don’t like to fly, so there isn’t very much “luck” to it. But hey, thanks for your concern! ;o)

Frontier was recommended by my aunt, whose husband has kids in CO, but of course they don’t stop where I live. I’ve heard that Jetexpress isn’t bad.

[Melas]

I just don't think it's any fun if nothing is left to the imagination. Clearly, many disagree with me...

For once the French have something useful to say on a subject: Viva le differance.

[Froufrou]

Great tagline! Here's a little French fashion fer ya!

[calcowgirl]

I don’t know what your problem is...

It's called literacy. I was hopin' it was contagious.

[Froufrou]

All this time, and that’s what you come up with? I’m above trading insults. I guess I should have mentioned that at the outset.

There is no point asking me to “guess” something you don’t know the answer to yourself. I’m sorry you can’t see the futility. Have a great weekend!

[calcowgirl]

Discussion is futile when one refuses to respond to questions asked, changes the subject, cannot (or refuses to) comprehend the simplest meaning of words, and misrepresents the posters comments. Agreement is also impossible if one refuses to support their contentions with facts, something you have shown an unwillingness to do.

Sobeit.

Enjoy your weekend.

[cynwoody]

I was so careful to do a search!

Video here.

I wonder how Southwest would deal with Jeri Thompson:

[Sonora]

So, does anyone know what prompted this sort of policy? It seems to me that these outfits are just one of the perks when one takes a plane, especially to Las Vegas.