While I too would wish for better standards of travel attire, this ship sailed decades ago. (The end of the great Steve McQueen movie Bullitt [1968] takes place in the San Francisco airport, in which men are wearing suits and hats!)
My preferences have as much sway as Duffy's, which is to say zero. Does anyone think that more than 1% of the American populace even knows who he is?
If he can promise me that I won’t be sleeping in the waiting area because my flight has been cancelled for two days, I will wear a tuxedo and top hat. But that isn’t going to happen. So its jeans and a sweater.
Seems a little racist.
People used to wear a suit to Baseball games.
No need to school marm it.
Men use to wear suits to baseball and football games
Are you kidding? I love it. Finally someone is telling the trash not to act like trash. It’s about time.
Sec. Duffy, I don’t need to worry about dressing nicely.
I refuse to fly.
Problem solved.
BTW, I’m old enough to remember when airlines treated people like passengers and not cargo.
Word to the wise: If your flight has extra seats and the crew is looking to upgrade a couple of coach passengers to business/first class, I can guarantee you that the slob wearing shorts, sandals and a Kansas City Chiefs jersey isn't going to be picked out of the passenger line and invited to the forward cabin.
In my early teen years my family made me wear a shirt and tie to travel. Hawaii, SFO, PBI, Heathrow, and round-trip once on the Concord. 12 to 16 range.
Eary 70’s.
What Duffy fails to take into account is that air travel in that “golden age” was the preserve of the wealthy. Since then, airlines strived to reach the masses and increase their profits by making air travel relatively more affordable. To do this, they redesigned their seating to maximize capacity and cranked up the number of flights, so we have cramped, uncomfortable seating, a markedly less luxurious experience, and overcrowded runways with all the delays that entails, as well as a decidedly less sophisticated clientele that is more prone to wearing flip flops and pajama bottoms in public. A few more “pleases” and “thank yous” is not going to remedy that.
This government sponsored inflation is economically choking people off and this stooge wants them to wear better clothing to travel on winged greyhound buses. Amazing...
Roll out the red carpet for tens of millions from the 3rd world then cry when people from the 3rd world show up at the airport dressed like they’re in the 3rd world.
Whenever I fly I usually dress nice (khakis and a button down), but why? Going to and through the airport is miserable. I have to take off my shoes, belt, empty my pockets, get scanned and sometimes groped by the TSA. Once I’ve gone through all that, I get wait for every other drooling moron to shuffle aboard their aircraft and take forever to stow their shit. Once I finally board and find my (ever shrinking) seat, there’s a decent chance that the middle aged white sweat-hog in the seat next to me is going to pour over the armrest and intefere in whatever passes a personal space I have left. At this point I don’t give a damn, I’d rather dress somewhat comfortably after putting up with all the aforementioned crap. Until Mr. Duffy goes through all that crap over the course of years, he can go to hell.
I absolutely despise post 9/11 flying.
At least ban flip-flops. But I digress, I don’t fly anymore.
I am sure he is referencing tube tops and pajamas: and worse that people, usually women show up to airports to fly in.
I disagree. The entire world needs to start dressing better.
Humanity looks like it’s at one long softball gamer.
You used to dress like you were somebody when you flew. I worked in the aviation industry in the late eighties and we would often fly to other airports to repair aircraft. One of the older mechanics always wore a suit and tie when he flew. He was one of the last.
Not really. I am usually sporting a button down shirt and a camel hair sportcoat when I go out. A gentleman should dress like one.
No it's not, it's asking to fly like times of old when people dressed appropriately and acted like civil citizens.....
Why would you have a problem with that???
Maybe if fliers used those criteria, all the in flight violence being recorded might be avoided
Using your logic, you obviously approve of people acting like the goops.....
The Goops they lick their fingers,
And the Goops they lick their knives;
They spill their broth on the tablecloth--
Oh, they lead disgusting lives!
The Goops they talk while eating,
And loud and fast they chew;
And that is why I'm glad that I
Am not a Goop--are you?