Posted on 09/13/2007 12:09:35 PM PDT by 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."
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You’ve gone out of your way to call names, insult, and otherwise behave unkindly toward me, for what reason I can only surmise is that it makes you feel good to do so.
I have made reasonable attempts to deal with your rudenss, but to no avail. For this reason, I will not post to you again.
Sobeit.
PARDON ME???
I said you misrepresented my posts (TRUE), avoided answering questions posed to you--i.e. discuss (TRUE), changed the subject (TRUE), and after repeated attempts to keep the discussion on target, I said you argued like a liberal (My Opinion). I also commented on literacy as you apparently did not comprehend the meaning of the word guess, since you kept going back to saying you did not know (also TRUE).
Please--show me EXACTLY where I called you ANY name or "behaved unkindly"!!!! I did NOT!
I have made reasonable attempts to deal with your rudenss, but to no avail. For this reason, I will not post to you again.
Slander and run. Liberal tactics on full display, yet again.
I donât frequent any, but I have never seen anyone dressed like that on any flight. Maybe a cocktail party. Her dress is inappropriate. Actually from the pictures Iâve seen it looks like lingerie and not day time attire. Thatâs my opinion. I know my husband would not like me to dress in that fashion for public viewing. It is called modesty.
A dress code based refusal cannot be equated with a color of skin refusal.
Are you implying that store’s should have the right to refuse serving people of color?
I have nothing against skin color. If I had a business, I would not be so utterly stupid to refuse people for such silly and meaningless reasons.
But if Kanye West opened a restaurant, if he took his savings, bought a piece of property, built a restaurant, hired staff and get all set for business, and if he then decided that people like me were not welcome, I would just shrug my shoulders and say "It's your property, man. If I'm not welcome, I'll go over to Sylvester Stallone's place. He's happy for any business he can get. No hard feelings."
But I guess you want government to force Kanye West to welcome me?
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It doesn't matter what the topic is either. So much fighting, and distraction. So tiresome.
It’s come to my attention, too. I think some people really like to argue just for the sake of arguing. I don’t understand it.
But I know some posters have become almost lurkers in order to avoid it. I think that’s an indication that it’s gone too far.
I don't come here nearly as much as I used to. I've been a member since early 2004 but changed my screen name. I was very active on this site before. Too much fighting now. Last week, there was a nasty battle going on between two posters on a thread about a woman who died so she could deliver her baby. She refused chemotherapy. My point being is that, the topic doesn't matter.
I lurked for quite awhile before signing up to post. I noticed some ‘spirited’ posting re: Terry Schiavo and Natalee Holloway.
I’m truly sorry that it backed you off so much, especially since you seem a reasonable person. And yes, I see what you mean about topics not mattering.
I guess I’m not flying enough......I never see these scofflaws :)
Yeah, I know what you mean. Last time I flew Southwest there was a granny with her 6 year old sitting next to me!
:-(
She can sit next to me anytime.
I’ve seen the SWAir “attendants” in their brown shorts... I think they’re just jealous of these women ;)
I can well relate to having problems with a few other posters on a thread. I don't think "vilified" is too strong a word to describe the treatment I received from a few on that thread, often through private mail. (Obviously, they didn't want the other posters, their {pals}, to know how really mean-spirited they are.)
The Natalie Holloway thread was dominated by a clique. Newbies were not welcome.
I've posted on other sites, including some Freeper threads, and I've never experienced the animosity which spilled forth from some on the Natalie thread.
Who needs it? I never involved myself again.
Debates, differences of opinion, have to be expected among posters. That makes for a more interesting dialogue. BUT, it can be done in a civil manner.
“BUT, it can be done in a civil manner.”
Thanks, IIntense, for your input. I couldn’t agree more.
From what I can see, her breasts are 95% covered.
It’s still flailing.
So not having those suckers strapped down is grounds for removal? She is properly covered.
Lib, as I understand it, it was passengers who complained.
Pissant, Charter Mile High Club member, how precious to hear from you! ;o)
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