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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They are.
Mine! ;^)
Daamn, is that “Obama Girl”???
“Even nudist cruises insist on everyone sitting on a towel rather than putting bare skin on public surfaces.”
How many nudist cruises have you been on? ;o)
From my flying experience, “having an offensive odor” is NOT a criteria for denying service. Most of us with any flight time have experienced passengers reeking of sweat, BO, goat urine and any other foul substance known to man and just pray they have not been assigned to any seat near you.
What? I don't know what strip clubs you frequent, but they wouldn't attract any customers if they dressed like that. This is an average dress. I fail to see what all the excitement is about.
Are you speaking from personal experience ? :)
Yes.
It was a flop (pun intended).
or that you have to sit in the seat AFTER they have occupied it ...
yuck
I flew from Heathrow to Newark once where the gregarious Brit in the seat next to me was dressed in a suit but had the most horrendous B.O, bad breath and dandruff. It was absolutely nauseating. I spent 7 hours with earplugs in, pretending to sleep so he wouldn’t even look in my direction. Do you know how hard that is to pull off ?
OK, so I have to ask. Did you do this for exercise or were you just interested in the dance ?
I was surfing thru the channels a few weeks ago and on the Travel channel there was a special on some remote place in Africa where all the women went naked and the men all wore enormous, strap-on penises.
It was the most bizarre thing I ever saw.
I took belly dance classes for about five years, for exercise and my personal enjoyment. The costumes that show a lot of bosom - “cabaret style” - are constructed like armor! Bullets would bounce off.
As a woman, I’d rather see another woman wear this instead of some very overweight lady wearing midriff tops and low-rise pants, with muffin tops and all for us to see.
Maybe the tops should be repackaged as sports bras :)
Even the underclothes I wear for running aren’t as solid as those belly-dance tops!
I have never understood this desire on the part of women young or otherwise to wear the wrong clothing to the wrong occasion.
As you point out these women who are overweight wearing midrif tops, thongs and low rise pants with a set of ass antlers (tattoo at the waistband). The muffin tops spilling over trying to tell me that big is beautiful. Maybe it is...but not dressed like that!
The young woman in the picture is not a model, and really doesn’t have “the goods” for such and outfit. Neither did the woman who was kicked off a flight last week or the week before.
Most of us who travel frequently have no problem with most of the things that people wear on airplanes. But there are cases, like this girl, who are just trying to be noticed by men. Yet they get incensed when they are ogled by those men that they are not interested in, such as myself.
I figure that if you’re going to chum the waters you’re going to attract sharks.
Have you tried on a halter dress lately? Most have built in bras. And why would it be inadequate even if she WAS wearing one, as you stated?
It’s a fashion faux pas that even youth does not excuse.
What are you saying is a fashion faus pas? She looks great!
How does one flash a crotch in coach class? Seats aren’t wide enough to spread your legs for one thing, or to allow anyone in front of you to turn around to look for another. The only opportunity would be when putting your carry on luggage in the overhead compartment in which case one could be flashing tush, not crotch.
Well, why stop there? Why have anyone show any skin at all? Perhaps we should just have Burkas for all!
And why stop at airlines? Why not offices, schools, libraries, restaurants, buses and taxi-cabs?
And I’m sure you will instill the same no-skin dress code in your home, right? After all—you wouldn’t want company to come in contact with anything that RAW skin (shiver... the horrors) may have touched!
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