If you like wearing turtleneck sweaters in July, your seat is ready for you!? To recap for those of you that haven’t followed the recent Southwest Airlines media scandal: Two young, stylish women, both dressed age-appropriatly, were approached by Southwest employees recently and asked to change their attire or cover up before boarding their respective flights.? Both women were forced to cover up under the threat of not being allowed to use their purchased tickets.? Remember that the airline does not post a formal dress code.
Setara Qassim, age 21, was forced to wrap herself in a blanket for the entire flight from Tucson to Burbank, and in the warm summer months none-the-less.? A week before this Kayla Ebbert, age 23, came forward to report a similar incident during her trip from San Diego to Tucson. Kayla was accussed of being dressed too provacatively to fly. She was able to resume her flight after adjusting her outfit and being sufficiently humiliated in front of fellow passengers who were able to hear the conflict.
Chris Mainz, a Southwest spokesman, said “We don’t have a dress code. We rely on our employees to use common sense, good judgement and goodtaste.? It’s so rare for us to have to address a customer’s clothing issue.”?
Perhaps a dictionary should become part of the standard Southwest employee uniform so that those speaking realize that “common sense” and “good taste” are defined subjectivly and that two similar occurences reported within two weeks would not be classified as “rare”.? Perhaps the recent media frenzie will prompt more humiliated and disrespected young women to come forward to report their Southwset tales.?
I will leave the readers to judge for themselves and see if they agree that a cable TV show does not make a cattle-class airline into the official surveyers of this country’s morality and standards.
For your review, photos of Setara and Kayla are enclosed! You be the judge!
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