Southwest Airlines threatens to kick off passenger because mini skirt too short: The lowest moment in aviation history
Add commentsSouthwest Airlines, the carrier that perfected making air travel feel like bus travel before everyone else with its scramble-for-your-seat policy, is at it again. SWA’s latest cutting edge innovation is threatening to kick off a passenger who was minding her own business because her outfit was deemed “too revealing.”
I guess those Southwest flight attendants who make those zany, corny jokes aren’t so chipper these days?
They threatened to kick her off the flight? She should have been given a lifetime pass to fly SWA for free instead. Everyone who travels regularly knows there are a lot of ugly people hurling through the sky. A little eye candy is good for the morale of everyone in this high tension, colored-coded world. And the woman in question - 23-year-old Kyla Ebbert - works at Hooters, which clearly confirms her right to wear a skirt as short as she wishes.
It’s not like they booted Rosie O’Donnell from the flight for wearing a micro mini. If someone like myself shows up in a half shirt, by all means, unleash the full force of the FAA to save us all. But if it’s a curvy 23-year-old blonde who works at Hooters … we’re good thanks. Go steal a 5-year-old’s toothpaste instead.
It wasn’t like Ebbert was traveling to Salt Lake City either. She was going from San Diego to Tucson. From one babe magnet golf destination to another.
Unlike my WorldGolf.com colleague William K. Wolfrum who believes that airport security should consist of a passengers honor policy (just tell us if you plan to blow up the plane, we’ll say pretty please!), I’m usually all for airline measures. I was even fine with the liquids ban.
But raising a fuss over a short skirt, one you could see in any mall in America? That’s going too far. What about the constitutional right to travel next to a babe?
You can check out pictures of Ebbert in her “offending” outfit here. For research purposes of course.
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Jason Scott Deegan:
The Accidental Golfer:
Katharine Dyson:
Kiel Christianson:
don't, some random prude within the business cannot enforce his/her own ethics ad hoc.
The fact that she works at Hooter's says it all. She is used to showing the merchandise, and even her mother sees nothing wrong with it.
On air trips on several different airlines, I've seen that much skin and a lot more.
Once, I even had a young college coed put her bare and dirty feet up on the serving tray while sitting net to me.
Two years ago, while visiting St. Peter's in Rome, a young American lass tried to enter that edifice in attire more scanty than that worn by Ebbett. She was stopped and sent away by security, but the sad fact is that she saw nothing wrong with it, despite warnings and notices posted proscribing her style of dress.
It is, sadly, a sign of the times.
someone (or many) have complained about it
Then they need to make a judgement call.
Southwest airlines airport supervisors
are not the fashion-police. But if other
passengers complain? They need to make
a judgement call and guess what? It IS their call to make. Can't manage to get on an
airplane fully covered or without wearing
an offensive t-shirt? Then you take your
chances!
clearly for all passengers to see. Maybe it is posted somewhere on SWA's ticket or website. I have never flown with them, so I don't know.
Do you honestly believe that posting a picture of Kyla and stating that this type of dress would not be tolerated would solve the problem of inappropriate dress on airlines? Or anywhere else, for that matter?
Have you ever taken notice of the style of dress of a large portion of air travelers? As the manners and customs of a great many Americans have coarsened, all dress codes seem to have been thrown in the ash can.
In 2005, my wife and I went to Europe on a vacation. We attended a "Mozart and Strauss" concert at the Orangerie of the Schoenbrunn Palace, truly an elegant setting. Wuth the brochure that accompanied the tickets, was written that men were expected to wear a tie and jacket or a suit and tie and women were to wear "elegant dress."
Everyone complied, EXCEPT a gang from the Wolverine State. None of about twenty people followed the dress code. One handsome couple really stood out. The women had on pedal pushers, flip-flops, and a jacket that said "UAW Loca639".
He wore blue jeans, Reeboks, and a sweatshirt that read "Michigan Wolverines." The folks at the concert were probably too stunned to refuse this group admittance.
Do you think that posting of any dress code would affect these slobs.
What would the airline do if about a third of a planeload showed up out of uniform?
If there are rules, just post them clearly.
That's all. Then deal with the people who don't follow those rules. What I object to is making policy on a case-by-case basis on the spur of the moment.
I fly quite a lot. I've seen many people dress on flights that resembled rag pickers, but I have never seen any of these "offenders" removed from a flight due to the manner of dress. Neither was Ms. Ebbett.
From what I've read, this incident occurred about two months ago. Ms. Ebbett took her time in complaining.
No rules or for that manner laws will ever be enforceable unless an overwhelming majority want them enforced.
I'd say that close to half of the public don't want any dress codes of any kind, not in church, restaurants, classical concerts, and certainly not on airplane flights.
Too bad.