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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToo much cleavage to fly on a Southwest?
picture of the offending cleavage at the link belowA Southwest Airlines passenger on a flight from Las Vegas to New York was told she had to get off the plane for inappropriate cleavage. She refused. After the flight, she reached out to the website Jezebel to help get her story out. She got herself a refund and an apology.
She boarded a flight from Las Vegas to New York early June 5 and said she did not button up because, she told Jezebel: I didnt want to let the representatives Big Feelings about my breasts change the way I intended to board my flight, she explained. And lo and behold, the plane didnt fall out of the sky my cleavage did not interfere with the planes ability to function properly.
Southwest spokesperson Christi McNeill told us that the company offered Avital an apology and a refund as a gesture of goodwill, but that their Contract of Carriageallows them to refuse to transport a customer whose clothing is lewd, obscene, or patently offensive.
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/06/19/southwest-airlines-apologizes-over-cleavage-skirmish/?tsp=1
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Too much cleavage to fly on a Southwest? (Original Post)
Liberal_in_LA
Jun 2012
OP
It probably makes sense to wear as little as possible these days when flying
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
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unreadierLizard
(475 posts)1. Uhh
I don't think that the stewardesses had their priorities straight.
O_o
RC
(25,592 posts)2. That was too much cleavage?
I've seen worse... err, better in church.
pnwmom
(108,972 posts)3. She refused and they let her fly anyway?
I'm surprised they didn't call the police to taser her.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)4. Airline ads in the '70s used to show more cleavage.
Don't tell me we're not in the midst of a Cultural "Contraction." Just another bursting bubble, I guess.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)5. It probably makes sense to wear as little as possible these days when flying
just less stuff to strip off when you are randomly selected.
Kind of the opposite approach to strip poker.
trumad
(41,692 posts)6. Southwest...what a bunch of idiots.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)7. WTF?
You can see way more than that on any street in any city.
She wasn't doing a Janet Jackson so what is Southwest's problem?
LiberalFighter
(50,825 posts)8. What numbnut made the decision it was too much cleavage?
More than 50% of her breasts are covered. Whoever made that decision should be fired for being a prude.
Blue Owl
(50,325 posts)9. VAGINA
oops sorry, wrong thread...
applegrove
(118,577 posts)10. I worked at the US departure section of the Montreal Airport. Lost of people leaving on trips to the
South for the winter. People all dressed up. Cleavage everywhere.