Southwest Airlines, Fashion Police?

Posted by Dexie

Look at the picture below and tell me if the outfit is inappropriate for a flight ensemble.

This young woman is Kyla Ebbert. 2 months ago, she was flying in to Tucson wearing exactly that outfit aboard a Southwest Airlines plane. Kyla was asked to step off the plane by a supervisor and told her outfit is inappropriate and was asked to change. Because the flight was only a few hours long, Kyla did not pack a suitcase with her. She had a Doctors appointment at Tucson and the temperature was up to 106 all week. The supervisor being called as "Keith" asked her to go home and :

...change and take a later flight. She refused, citing her appointment. The plane was ready to leave, so Keith relented. He had her pull up her tank top a bit, pull down her skirt a bit, and return to her seat.

Ebbert says several flight attendants overheard the conversation and, after an embarrassing walk down the aisle, she took her seat and spread a blanket over her lap. She kept her composure until the plane landed, when she called her mother and broke down.

Here's my problem about this whole story. I used to work at San Diego Airport in one of the terminals security checkpoint and a part-timer for American Airlines. I saw with my own two eyes what the Southwest Airlines front desk clerks were wearing. That was 10 years ago. I haven't been to the airport lately so I don't know what their uniforms look like these days. But back then, their customer service people were wearing tucked in shirts over itty bittty brown tight shorts. I rode with SW clerks in the trolley, from 5:30 in the morning, saw them around the airport, and rode in another Trolley at 4pm back to Employee's parking lot. I was accosted by their itty bitty tight brown shorts and snottiness. Ironically, as I remember, SW clerks were touted as the snotty ones at the SD airport among the airport employees, heh. SW Airlines is the last "person" to do any policing when it comes to clothes. What? they had an epiphany years ago to change their uniforms and decided to be the moral compass of dress codes? Please.

By the way, if that was Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, probably wearing an even more revealing outfit, like oh I don't know, a bikini top over a skirt(probably with no underwear on), Southwest Airlines wouldn't have said anything. As a matter of fact, they would have probably handed any of those girls a glass of champagne.

Am I wrong or what?

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