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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“What does smelling like cigarettes and having tattoos do with whether what you say is believable?”
You got me!
Red, I reiterate: IF the brunette is even wearing a bra, it is inadequate. It’s a fashion faux pas that even youth does not excuse.
I rest my case.
~snorrrrrfle!!!~
[should have handed her a little mesh mouthpiece, mebbe?]
This is becoming a pathway to exhibitionist bimbo stardom, a publicity stunt.
madness
“pathway to exhibitionist bimbo stardom, a publicity stunt.”
Media whores?
100% not guilty, especially if that’s what she was wearing at the time. If liberals are looking for people to call the American Taliban, maybe they should check Southwest out.
Whatever happened to “Come Fly Me?”
There’s something wrong with Southwest.
She looks like she is sporting strip club attire.
Members of the MIle High Club can still be well-dressed when outside the lavatory...
“Am I the only one who likes a classy women who can look sexy without showing much if anything at all?”
I’m with you. I was born in ‘66 but I love the way ladies looked and dressed in the 1940’s.
True ... my daughter is driving!
Nice one! First time I saw a thongkini I thought, “why bother?”
LOL!
How about this for a dress code:
1. All outfits must have sleeves at least to the elbows - I don’t want to see or smell your underarm hair or sweaty armpits. That goes for no cleavage. Get rid of the guys with Italian undershirts and the gals wearing tank tops.
2. All bottom attire must reach close to the waist and extend to near the knee at least - I don’t want to see your butt crack, have your pants fall down, see your underwear, or sit in a seat touched by your exposed, shedding, sweaty skin. No ghetto pants or skintight miniskirts or short shorts.
Please people - let’s remember that you have to sit in the same seats formerly occupied by these buffoons. Even nudist cruises insist on everyone sitting on a towel rather than putting bare skin on public surfaces.
At least she wasn’t wearing her belly dancing outfit.
No self-respecting Middle Eastern dancer would be flobbering about in that fashion. Belly-dance costumes are highly engineered to keep everything firmly in place.
This is such bunk. We made up the whole idea of how we dress in the first place. Women wear almost nothing in the African Bush and no one notices because they haven’t been culturally brainwashed to think it matters.
I remember in the early 1970s when women would wear much less than that on planes. I was so naive that I was surprised when my dad said other people would notice what I wore. I pretty much thought people ignored me, and I was just trying to be fashionable.
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