Still "not guilty."
Posted on 09/13/2007 12:09:35 PM PDT by Froufrou
A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines Co. employees made her cover up on a recent flight.
Setara Qassim told KNBC-TV in Los Angeles that a flight attendant confronted her during the trip from Tucson, Ariz., to Burbank, Calif., and asked if she had a sweater to go over her green halter-style dress.
Qassim, 21, said she was forced to wrap a blanket around herself for the rest of the flight. She complained that if Southwest wants passengers to dress a certain way, it should publish a dress code.
Last week, 23-year-old Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee pulled her aside as she was preparing to board a plane departing San Diego for Tucson in July and told her she was dressed too provocatively to fly on the plane.
Ebbert said she was humiliated and felt the stares of other passengers who had overheard the verbal dressing-down.
Airline spokesman Chris Mainz said the company had no record that Qassim ever complained.
Messages left with Qassim, who lives in southern California, were not immediately returned to The Associated Press.
Mainz said Dallas-based Southwest — which dressed its stewardesses in hot pants and called itself "the love airline" back in the 1970s — relies on employees to decide if a passenger's attire may offend other customers.
"We don't have a dress code. We rely on our employees to use common sense, good judgment and good taste," Mainz said. "It's so rare for us to have to address a customer's clothing issue."
American Airlines claims the right to refuse to carry passengers for a variety of reasons including being drunk, barefoot, having an offensive odor or being "clothed in a manner that would cause discomfort or offense to other passengers."
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Still "not guilty."
Burkas are apparently preferred attire for some folks.
I think she looks great, and not inappropriate at all for the summer season.
It is. What these young women fail to understand is that this is an airplane...not a nightclub in Key West during Spring Break !!
Pete, is that the Hooters waitress they tormented on Southwest?
Red, no one said you weren’t a gentleman. The problem with the dress is that she is spilling over the beige empire waistline.
Any female who can place a pencil under her bosom and hold it there is not a candidate for going strapless. End of story.
Am I the only one who likes a classy women who can look sexy without showing much if anything at all?
I don’t get it. Was she flying “commando” or something? She looks very clean cut and attractive. I have seen politicians’ wives wear more seductive clothing. Oops!
Tu casa es nuestra casa.
I want money, too.
I personally would prefer that ladies didn’t walk around in public (off the beach) flailing their milk about like that. However, if it’s a question of others’ being reasonably offended ... you can’t leave your house without boops all over the place. Live with it or stay home.
I did read elsewhere that the blond’s crotch was showing.
Forgive me, but I wouldn’t want to sit next to a man wearing a cup and bike shorts, either. Sheesh, can we not have some couth when in public?
So we don’t wear hats and gloves and suits anymore, but does that reduce us to going commando?
Me neither.
Was she flying “commando” or something?
I had to look that one up!
She looks very clean cut and attractive. I have seen politicians’ wives wear more seductive clothing.
Hillary's cleavage? ;-) LOL!
I agree with you if the blonde had no underwear. But this thread is about the brunette, and that does not appear to be the case here.
Re: There is nothing as unalluring as a woman on complete display
Huh?
The city of Las Vegas owes their very existence to this!
I wouldn’t have made this babe cover up, and I probably wouldn’t have made the blond cover up either...except for a bag over her head.
What does smelling like cigarettes and having tattoos do with whether what you say is believable?
You know, it’s dangerous business going out your front door these days...
Hmmm, and here I thought all these years low cut tops were designed to promote healthy breathing....
When Southwest Airlines starts forcing Muslim girls like Settara Qassim to cover-up for dressing far too provacatively.
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