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Neoma

(10,039 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:01 PM Jun 2012

Southwest Airlines to Women: Stow Your Tray Tables… and Your Cleavage?

Southwest Airlines has apologized to a woman passenger who was told by airline staff to cover her cleavage before takeoff. Before boarding, an airline representative reportedly told the passenger, who was wearing a flannel shirt and scarf over a sundress, that she was dressed inappropriately and would need to cover up. ”To add insult to injury,” the woman told Jezebel.com, “the guy sitting in front of me on the plane was wearing a shirt with an actual Trojan condom embedded behind a clear plastic applique and had no trouble getting on his flight.”

Southwest’s “modesty” code has made headlines before. In 2007, a college student named Kyla Ebbert was forced to wear a blanket during her flight, after a flight attendant deemed her miniskirt and sweater ensemble too revealing. Green Day frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, was booted from a Southwest flight last year for wearing his pants too low. A few weeks later, The L Word star, Leisha Hailey, was escorted from her flight for kissing her girlfriend on-board. And don’t forget the whole “too fat to fly” fiasco.


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Southwest Airlines to Women: Stow Your Tray Tables… and Your Cleavage? (Original Post) Neoma Jun 2012 OP
Why anyone would fly that godforsaken airline is beyond me. Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2012 #1
Why bother not flying with them... gregoire Jun 2012 #2
Ridiculous Lisa D Jun 2012 #3
Post edited out, I was mistaken, checked my ticket, it's a different airline. Zorra Jun 2012 #4

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
1. Why anyone would fly that godforsaken airline is beyond me.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:09 PM
Jun 2012

Has anyone WATCHED the show Airline? If I ever had any thoughts of fling SW, that show killed them.

PS. I knew one of the original highlighted SW employees/flight attendants on the show. Total fucking bigot.

 

gregoire

(192 posts)
2. Why bother not flying with them...
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:44 PM
Jun 2012

when the rest of the airlines are just as bad since they're ruled by CONservatives also.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
4. Post edited out, I was mistaken, checked my ticket, it's a different airline.
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:23 AM
Jun 2012

Last edited Fri Jun 22, 2012, 12:25 PM - Edit history (2)

Rats.

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