09-07-2007
06:14 PM
1 Love
If Southwest wants to enforce something like this, a dress code MUST be in place and customers need to be informed at time of reservation - not before take off! Southwest should make customers a priority, those that complained AND the person they are discussing. She should have been told very VERY discreetly about the concern & simply (& kindly) offered a blanket (walked up to the front of the plane - no, lectured - are you kidding?, audible for any in the plane to hear - Southwest should know better). That was horrible customer treatment. Southwest seems to have forgotten that these are paying customers & people, human beings, deserving of courtesy. That said - her skirt did appear too short, & more clearly after the "show" on the Today Show. But Southwest does NOT have a dress code. How often are other common "fashion" trends addressed with Southwest customers? Men with pant WAISTbands bellow their bottoms sharing their underwear with all? Women with low-rise jeans& underwear showing - always or just when bending over? How much is too much cleavage? I would like (love) to see all these issues addressed. But, without a dress code - that was horrible treatment, and very inconsiderate! Was this really a concern worthy of delaying a flight - and the schedules of ALL the others on the flight? And, truthfully, we barely fit on the plane with much room to spare (if you're wondering - I am thin, well within my suggested healthy BMI, and my children are thin - two are much thinner than average - as our pediatrician points out at each visit, but genetically just fortunate). So, it would be quite and accomplishment of the woman discussed here to cross & uncross her legs frequently with wide sweeping movements to warrant the kind of "show" warranting the resulting treatment of the Southwest flight attendant. I would hate to pay a chunk of money for a plane ticket and be treated that way - or for the same to happen to any of my 4 children (2 of whom are teenagers that are not allowed to dress that way). Unless this is addressed well, and quickly, by Southwest I will no longer be able to be a customer.
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