Steve Robinson

Airlines Denying Passage Based on Inappropriate Attire

Don’t assume you are going to be allowed to board your plane simply because you have purchased cheap airfare, whether cheap airplane tickets or cheap vacation packages. 

These days your dress has to meet the standards of gate agents as well as flight attendants.

Saggy pants, exposed underwear, and exposed skin are all possible types of dress that can get a passenger escorted off of a plane.  Now some edgier dressed fliers are beginning to wonder what is acceptable to wear on a plane.

The following are some of the more interesting airline attire “incidents”:

·       Green Day lead singer Billie Armstrong was escorted off of a Southwest plane on September 1st because a flight attendant deemed that his pants sagged too low and he refused to hike them up.

·       Southwest identified a passenger as “too hot to fly” in 2007 when a woman showed up wearing a mini skirt, a tank top and a sweater.  When asked to make her clothing less revealing she covered herself in a blanket and was allowed to fly.

·       A University of New Mexico football player was arrested on a US Airways plane in June at San Francisco International Airport after having repeatedly refused to pull up his pants at the gate to cover his underwear.  Once the crew notified the captain of the disruption police were called.  The local County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against the football player.

US Airways acknowledges that it does not have a specific dress code but asks passengers to dress in an appropriate manner to ensure the “safety and comfort” of all passengers. The airline was accused of applying double standards when it was revealed that just days earlier it had allowed a man dressed only in blue women’s underwear, black thigh high stocking and a blue tank top covered by a see through cardigan to fly from Florida to Arizona.

The cross dresser claimed to travel in provocative women’s clothing for fun, but said that he covers up when asked by airline employees.

American Airlines policy regarding passengers’ clothing is that it can refuse to transport passengers or remove them from flights for reasons including “being clothed in a manner that would cause discomfort or offense to other passengers.”  Delta’s contract of carriage states that it can remove passengers whose conduct “creates an unreasonable risk of offense or annoyance to other passengers.”

JetBlue’s position is that it can remove passengers “whose clothing is lewd, obscene, or patently offensive.”

Be aware that most airlines, including American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, United and US Airways, are likely to refuse to transport any barefoot passengers.

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