Southwest Airlines Tells Woman Her Attire Is Too Revealing
 

Southwest Airlines Tells Woman Her Attire Is Too Revealing



SAN DIEGO -- Kyla Ebbert says she wants an apology from Southwest Airlines after being told to get off a plane and change her clothes because what she was wearing was too revealing.


Ebbert, 23, told the Today Show's Matt Lauer that an airline employee asked her to come up to the front of the plane just before the crew closed the plane's doors.


"He told me, 'I'm sorry but you're going to have to catch a later flight because you are dressed inappropriately, this is a family airline and you are too provocative to fly on this flight'," Ebbert said. "I said, 'What part is it? The shirt? The skirt? Which part?' He said, 'the whole thing.'"

Too Sexy For Flight?

Ebbert said she was on a day trip from San Diego to Tucscon for a doctor's appointment and had no luggage, so she had nothing to change into. She was allowed to stay on the flight, she said, after agreeing to pull up her tank top and pull down her skirt.

Ebbert wore the same outfit on the Today Show that she was wearing at the time of the incident, she said.

Southwest Airlines released the following statement about the incident:

"Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert's revealing attire on the flight that day. As a compromise, we asked her to adjust her clothing to be less revealing, she complied, and she traveled as scheduled. When a concern is brought to our employees' attention, we address that situation directly with the customer(s) involved in a discreet and professional matter. Fortunately, as an airline that carries approximately 96 million customers a year, those situations are extremely rare."

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time for a good lawyer.
money is where you find it.

yah no kidding, shes gonna be makin big bank... this is all over the news... shes pretty hot too

I've seen her getting quite a bit of support...I wonder if that support would be the same if she were 100 pounds heavier...

This is bullshit. From now on, when I get on a SW flight, I'm going to complain to the crew that this person is too fat and disgusting, or their shits too loud, or that guy is wearing a lame ass hat and I want them kicked off.

Now airlines can charge up the ass and they are fashion police? Please.

looks fine to me. Kind of odd attire for a trip to the doctors office, but maybe she's a gold digger or something.

heard about this yesterday, if you have it flaunt it and they should have never said anything like that, it was rude and I would definitely get a lawyer for this.Southwest has never given me a problem about my attire and i have worn less.

they also dont like it when you show up in nothing but bikini's...not like i'd know or anything LOL

... but they let the guy with a shoe bomb and lighters on flights ... we are fucked.

It's their plane, they make the rules.

If that were the case the incident would probably never have taken place.

LOL it was probably an ugly women that doesn't get any looks or attention that complained.

Jeez, they tell her that her clothes are innapropriate, she fixed them, they let her fly....and everyone still thinks she should sue somebody.

Sue them for what exactly?

Plus we don't know the whole story, she could have been panty-less with her skirt hiked up 8 inches higher than it is in that photo. She could have been bra-less with her boobs falling out of her tank top. (They did say in the story she puller her shirt up and skirt down before they let her fly)

Our society has to be the most litigious in the history of the world. It's downright ridiculous.

"You are now free to move about the country"

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Kyla works as a Hooters waitress...go figure. :1orglaugh

Somebody should hire her to do some nudes...

ADG

Agreed, money for nothing dude. I would rather ridicule them than deal with sueing them.

Shes's fucking hot !!

The only thing i would have asked her on the plane was to take the rest of the clothes off...

This girl is hot and outfit wasn't that rebelling .. if she has great boobs and a nice ass..that's another story

Problem with that is that if you cause enough of an upstir (or even if you don't, actually), the airlines can kick you off and refuse to take you anywhere for causing a commotion.

The airlines (as things stand) pretty much have free reign in selecting who they'll fly and who they won't... and there's not a whole lot of recourse available for anyone pushed aside by the system.

I know one guy (a bit obnoxious, I'll give you) who was had his share of drinks on his flight, and then fell asleep to wake up an hour and a half later to ask the stewardess for another drink only to be told "I think you've had enough." He was a bit upset, and expressed himself thusly...

When he landed and went to the terminal for his connecting flight, he found that he airline had refused him transport for the remainder of his trip... he had to find and book with another airline - but only after spending a night in the connecting city - and, from what I hear, he was lucky he was able to find another that would take him - the "no fly list" is not a myth.

I guess the question is - how low was she wearing the top and how high did she have the skirt hiked up?

Agreed. I can't even believe this is considered news and has received publicity.

She's a piece of ass

Listen to all you fucking idiots crying get a lawyer. South West Airlines has the right to refuse service, period. Get fucking serious, please.

good idea

Hooters? LOL

I wanted to throw this chick up on my blog this morning, but I can't find any pictures large enough. Anyone got some?

Are they real?

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Next thing you know she will be getting an offer to appear in PLAYBOY !

The point of the entire thing is that what she is wearing is what you will typically find in any mall, movie theater, or out on the streets every day of the week. For the record, ,she was wearing a bra and panties at the time of the flight. The person that complained about her attire was NOT a passanger, it was actually a male flight attendant that took personal issue with her. Her clothing is what is "normal" for a girl of her age and figure in todays society. I am a mother, and if I was on the plane and that women was sitting next to me and my child I would not have an issue with her at all. Taking public opinion polls and asking other passangers on the flight what they thought of what she was wearing, no one had an issue with it...they all thought it was just fine.

Ok, so they let her fly, but the issue is now not whether she managed to fly, it is what are the guidelines. Does the airline give you a dress code list when you book your flight? Who determines what is and is not appropriate? I have seen girls on planes in halter tops with their belly showing and wearing a low rise skirt on planes....so if there is going to be dress codes, then the airline is fine to do that, but they need to tell passangers BEFOREHAND what those rules are, just like schools...you know....your skirt has to reach the end of your fingertips.....the width of your sleeveless blouse has to be 3 fingers wide....shirts must be tucked in....oh hell....why doesn't airlines just make women wear 3 piece pant suits and men wear a 3 piece suit with tie...that way everyone is happy.

Wow no one else has said it?

:hitit

what ever happened to the idea that an airline's job was to get the plane off the ground on time and land at the destination on time?
seems that got lost somewhere.
remember the two pilots who sat in an airport bar for hours and got smashed and tried to take off in that condition?
or how about the planes that sat on the runway for hours and hours waiting to take off with no air conditioning and no toilet?
the airlines are trying very hard to self destruct.
private jets are cleaning up on the airlines total fuck ups that shouldn't have happened.

I went to the Southwest.com blog page and read all the responses. 99% bashed SW for what they did, but there were a few that posted that we needed to return to a more modest time, like the 30's or 40's where girls dressed more appropriately an knew how to act like a lady. Of course, they were all women.

I told them to "shut the fuck up, get in the kitchen and make me some fucking supper. And if you need an opinion, I'll give it to you. Now shut up before I blacken your other eye."

Not sure why they deleted my post. :1orglaugh

:hitit :hitit

cnn says this incident started when a Male flight attendant complained that when the girl was sitting you could see her panties. I think he is a fag, I would have asked her to take them off!

Heard about that a couple days ago, I figured she would have been wearing a lot less.

Get a lawyer and sue the ever living fuck out of them.

The horror...the horror.

I would hope that Southwest Airlines plans on picking up the tab for the counseling that poor traumatized flight attendant will most certainly need.

LOL.. she looks so prim and demure in those photos.. you know she had to have her shirt down to her nipples and the skirt halfway up her ass to have someone say something.

Southwest is in the business of serving its customers. If the customers complain (hey... you can see her panties over there... wait.. they are sheer you can see her crack!!!)... they have to address it. No different than the people that complained about the Muslims praying right before getting on a flight (that would have scared the fuck out of me too).

Moral of the story is don't bring attention to yourself... then people won't notice you.

I don't think she will get more than a few free flight passes from Southwest. As they say... even bad press is good press. Southwest is getting notoriety for escorting a lil hoochie mama off a flight LOL.. big deal.. I think they are probably laughing about it. BTW... she apparently did fly on that flight once she adjusted her clothing.

Do Southwest flight attendants make it a habbit to look at the crotch of each female passenger?

Todays number #1 Joke................

America the Land of the Free !!!

yes folks get ready to be told what you can and can't wear to fly !!!

If i was the flight attendant i would say " I got the meat for your fish *cough* i mean would you like the steak or fish for dinner?":1orglaugh

That's what she was wearing? That's such crap.

What's ironic is that Southwest flight attendants wore hot pants and alcoholic drinks were free when they started.

They marketed themselves with "Love is in the air" and their ticker symbol is LUV, but that is because they started at Love Field in Dallas.

I agree with you. Also she is not hot at all, she is not a pretty girl. Just because a girl is skinny doesnt make her hot it makes her skinny.

Given the subsequent actions of that particular flight attendant, I'm surprised he was looking anywhere near there.

This is ridiculous.