Airline Makes Scantily Clad Gals Cover Up
I wouldn’t be shocked if more trollops, hotties or starlets looking for free publicity come forward to declare they were also “too hot to begin boarding.” A gem of a story that covers several categories. There is a certain irony that this story broke near the anniversary of September 11th during one of the worst years for airline performance ever. Please remove your shoes, kiss your luggage buh-bye, wave hi to the nice ESL baggage inspector and begin boarding your plane where you will sit on the runway for no less than 3 hours. God Bless America and all our heroes.
GAWD, it doesn’t stop. It seems when the blond brainiac was on the TODAY show showing how demure her outfit was she sat down and flashed her panties in a very unlady like but extremely ironic way.
Underdressed Passenger or Overreacting Airline?
Young Woman’s Outfit Raises Eyebrows, Ire of Southwest Flight Attendant
By DAVID SCHOETZ, ABC News Internet Ventures, Sept. 7, 2007
Her outfit aboard a Southwest Airlines plane two months ago first earned her a flight attendant’s reprimand and now has sparked a decency debate that may result in a lawsuit.
Kyla Ebbert, a blond, shapely 23-year-old San Diego coed who also works shifts at a Hooters restaurant, boarded the flight to Tucson, Ariz., on a one-day round-trip visit to an Arizona doctor’s appointment. She had settled into her seat when a flight attendant confronted her about what was later described by the airline as “revealing attire.”
Ebbert’s so-called objectionable attire included a white, tight-fitting shirt, a green cropped sweater, and a white denim skirt cut high on her thighs.
Ebbert appeared on NBC’s “The Today Show” today wearing the same outfit and said that she was asked by a male flight attendant to come to the front of the plane by the door to the jetway. There, Ebbert said that she was told she would have to catch a later flight because she was showing too much skin and Southwest is a “family” airline.
Ebbert said she told the flight attendant she needed to remain on that flight so could make her doctor’s appointment and that because she was on a day trip, she had not packed any luggage from which she could take clothes to change.
The flight attendant, she said, suggested that she go to a gift shop to buy clothes. She offered to pull the top of her sweater tight over her breasts and her skirt down as far as possible, a compromise that was accepted.
Southwest Stands by Wardrobe Adjustment
The airline does not dispute the confrontation, but stands by its decision to “adjust” her outfit.
“Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert’s revealing attire on the flight that day,” the airline said in a statement. “As a compromise, we asked her to adjust her clothing to be a little less revealing. She complied and traveled as scheduled.
“Fortunately, as an airline that carries approximately 96 million customers a year, these situations are extremely rare.”
Though she accepted the compromise, Ebbert said she was left embarrassed by the situation, which she said played out in front of fellow passengers — so embarrassed she requested a blanket to cover herself for the flight.
“I was humiliated, I was embarrassed,” Ebbert said on “The Today Show.” “I felt like everyone was staring.”
Her mother, Michele Ebbert, who appeared with the young woman on “The Today Show” along with an attorney representing the family, wrote the airline a letter after her daughter told her about the episode and sent her a camera phone picture of her outfit.
“Her outfit is fine,” Michele Ebbert said. “She looks like every other college girl in San Diego.”
Ebbert claims that a Southwest Airlines flight attendant on her return trip later that day complimented her on the very same outfit that almost got her thrown off the earlier flight.
At first, Ebbert said, she just wanted an apology. She never got it, and now she’s considering a lawsuit.
By Jingo there’s more than one harlot, err, honey asked to put some damn clothes on!
Setara Qassim Cleavage: Southwest Airlines Asked Me to Cover Up Too
From NationalLedger.com By Lynda Johnson Sep 13, 2007
Another flier on Southwest Airlines has come forward and is upset that she was asked to cover up as she was dressed what the airline (or more likely some passenger that complained) too provocatively. Like Kyla Ebbert before her, she is now making the media rounds complaining.
Setara Qassim Cleavage: Southwest Airlines Asked Me to Cover Up Too
Setara Qassim said she was asked to cover up because of her plunging neckline and short skirt. Setara says “the flight attendant came up to me and asked me if I had a sweater and I said no because why would I pack a sweater in the heat. So, I asked her why and she said I need to cover up.”
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She now says she felt like a physco all bundled up on the plane. Cable and broadcast media news show keep dragging these women and portraying them as victims. Ebbert even got a spot on the NBC Today show where she wore the same outfit she wore on the plane. She claimed it was no big deal and then after displaying her short skirt and saying it showed nothing she sat down and gave the Today audience a crotch shot of her white panties.
Airline spokesman Chris Mainz says that Southwest lets their employees make the judgment call on passenger’s outfits. “We don’t have a dress code,” Mainz says. “We rely on our employees to use common sense good judgment and good taste. It’s so rare for us to have to address a customer’s clothing issue.”