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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 04:50 PM Jun 2012

Too much cleavage to fly on a Southwest?

picture of the offending cleavage at the link below

A 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 didn’t want to let the representative’s Big Feelings about my breasts change the way I intended to board my flight,” she explained. “And lo and behold, the plane didn’t fall out of the sky…my cleavage did not interfere with the plane’s 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
Uhh unreadierLizard Jun 2012 #1
That was too much cleavage? RC Jun 2012 #2
She refused and they let her fly anyway? pnwmom Jun 2012 #3
Airline ads in the '70s used to show more cleavage. leveymg Jun 2012 #4
It probably makes sense to wear as little as possible these days when flying 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #5
Southwest...what a bunch of idiots. trumad Jun 2012 #6
WTF? hobbit709 Jun 2012 #7
What numbnut made the decision it was too much cleavage? LiberalFighter Jun 2012 #8
VAGINA Blue Owl Jun 2012 #9
I worked at the US departure section of the Montreal Airport. Lost of people leaving on trips to the applegrove Jun 2012 #10

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
4. Airline ads in the '70s used to show more cleavage.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 04:56 PM
Jun 2012

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
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 04:59 PM
Jun 2012

just less stuff to strip off when you are randomly selected.

Kind of the opposite approach to strip poker.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
7. WTF?
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 05:08 PM
Jun 2012

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?
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 06:10 PM
Jun 2012

More than 50% of her breasts are covered. Whoever made that decision should be fired for being a prude.

applegrove

(118,577 posts)
10. I worked at the US departure section of the Montreal Airport. Lost of people leaving on trips to the
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:51 PM
Jun 2012

South for the winter. People all dressed up. Cleavage everywhere.

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