Southwest Airlines

[Hugo Chavez]

Yet another WTF right when you think things can't get any dumber... looking forward to the day when corporations have full control over every aspect of our lives  

Behold, the Corporate Fashion Police
http://www.knbc.com/news/14068141/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news

[headhuntersix]

What the hell am I missing..whats wrong with that outfit.

[kh300]

southwest is a private company.. they can do whatever they want. maybee some passengers were complaining.

[Tre]

Wasn't Southwest also the first to start making extremely fat people buy 2 seats?  

There's nothing wrong with the outfit.  As for their claim about being a 'family airline', I LOVE how they're trying to pretend that they are NOT the commuter service for every stripper that works between LA and Vegas.  

[ieffinhatecardio]

Wasn't Southwest also the first to start making extremely fat people buy 2 seats? 

There's nothing wrong with the outfit.  As for their claim about being a 'family airline', I LOVE how they're trying to pretend that they are NOT the commuter service for every stripper that works between LA and Vegas. 

If you take up two seats you should pay for two seats. You or I shouldn't have to suffer when sitting next to someone that can't fit into one seat.

[Hugo Chavez]

What the hell am I missing..whats wrong with that outfit.

exactly

[Hugo Chavez]

southwest is a private company.. they can do whatever they want. maybee some passengers were complaining.

now apply that concept to the fact that increasingly everything you do or will do is subject to the corporation overlords, but hey, you can still dress exactly like you want in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness   There was nothing wrong with her dress there Barney, use your head...

[JOHN MATRIX]

whoever insisted upon her covering up should be tried AND CONVICTED for crimes against humanity.

[G o a t b o y]

southwest is a private company.. they can do whatever they want. maybee some passengers were complaining.

They can't change the rules midstream after they have sold you a ticket.  If they want to implement a dress code they can, but they have a responsibility to lay out specifically what that is, and notify customers before they buy a ticket.

[CQ]

This is the outfit

I heard about on the news, I expected some really risque half naked trash outfit.

I can only assume those that "complained" were female, and either old, fat or ugly

[Tre]

This is the outfit

I heard about on the news, I expected some really risque half naked trash outfit.

I can only assume those that "complained" were female, and either old, fat or ugly

It's like when the uptown 'escorts' sit around talking trash about the downtown street hookers as if they're all not whores. 

[Dos Equis]

Whoop-de-do.  Clothes look fine to me, but if she doesn't like the dress code, she can chose another airline.  She has about ten other airlines to choose from.  What the heck is she going to sue for?  Getting her feelings hurt?

Slow news day . . . .   

[Straw Man]

southwest is a private company.. they can do whatever they want. maybee some passengers were complaining.

SW is a publicly traded company (stock symbol LUV) and I don't see why they wouldn't be allowed some discretion over their dress code. 

[Mons Venus]

They can't change the rules midstream after they have sold you a ticket.  If they want to implement a dress code they can, but they have a responsibility to lay out specifically what that is, and notify customers before they buy a ticket.

Well said.

[kh300]

now apply that concept to the fact that increasingly everything you do or will do is subject to the corporation overlords, but hey, you can still dress exactly like you want in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness   There was nothing wrong with her dress there Barney, use your head...

do you have any common sense? do you believe someone at southwest was bored and just felt the erge to kick someone off their flight for fun? or do you think it was for a reason? think about it.. even if thats the same outfit, she could have had her pussy showing for all we know. she could have been doing a striptease for all we know.she could have been a bitch yelling and screaming.. and so far southwest hasnt made a statement. all you know is this girls version,, but you tell me to use my head?

typical liberal.. always take the side of the "victim" no matter what. no matter if they were right or wrong.. its never the little guys fault. its evil corporations and everyone that is more powerfull then you.

[Tre]

SW is a publicly traded company (stock symbol LUV) and I don't see why they wouldn't be allowed some discretion over their dress code. 

That discretion has to be reasonable, however, and in this case was not.

[Straw Man]

That discretion has to be reasonable, however, and in this case was not.

it did seem a bit arbitrary

I watched a bit of this girl on some morning show and it seems like if SW really had an issue it could have been addressed more discreetly and before she boarded the plane.

On a personal note, I have no objection at all to the way she was dressed

[JOHN MATRIX]

it did seem a bit arbitrary

I watched a bit of this girl on some morning show and it seems like if SW really had an issue it could have been addressed more discreetly and before she boarded the plane.

On a personal note, I have no objection at all to the way she was dressed

exaclty, there was nothing wrong with how she was dressed, this whole thing is absurd, they deserve whatever they have coming their way cause they fucked up big time.

[Dos Equis]

This is great.  She got her 15 minutes of fame and now Southwest is running promotions based on this incident.  I love this country.   

Southwest Airlines Apologizes to Woman Told to Cover Up, Announces 'Skimpy' Fare Sale
Saturday, September 15, 2007

DALLAS —  Southwest Airlines Co. says it is apologizing to a young California woman who was told her outfit was too skimpy to fly, and it's using the brouhaha as a marketing ploy — announcing a "miniskirt fare sale."

The aggrieved woman, Kyla Ebbert, took her case Friday to "The Dr. Phil Show." Host Phil McGraw read an apology from Southwest Chief Executive Gary Kelly during the show, which is scheduled to air Tuesday.

Ebbert said she was on a Southwest plane ready to take off from San Diego on July 3 when an airline employee asked her to change her miniskirt, top and sweater or get off.

In a compromise, the 23-year-old was allowed to stay on the flight to Tucson, Ariz., after pulling her skirt down and her top up.

Kelly said the airline apologized to Ebbert in August and thought the affair was over. But in the past two weeks, Ebbert went on NBC's "Today Show" and then "The Dr. Phil Show."

Ebbert's account, and a similar one by another young California woman this week, led to unfavorable press coverage and Internet chatter about Dallas-based Southwest. Newspaper columnists and bloggers derided the airline — which put its stewardesses in hot pants and called itself "The love airline" in the 1970s — as prudish.

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Another Woman Claims Southwest Airlines Forced Her to Cover Up on Flight Southwest Flight Attendant Tries to Boot Hooters Waitress From Plane Over Clothing So Kelly decided to change the tone Friday by issuing another apology to Ebbert — company President Colleen Barrett was dispatched to phone her — and announce a miniskirts-and-hot pants fare sale.

"It is quite humorous, given that we were born with hot pants," Kelly said. "We're trying to be good-humored about all this."

Kelly declined to give his opinion of Ebbert's July 3 outfit, and said the airline needs to "lean towards the customer."

"We don't have a dress code at Southwest Airlines, and we don't want to put our employees in the position of being the fashion police," he said, "but there's a fine line you walk sometimes in not offending other passengers."

Kelly said Ebbert is a regular customer of Southwest and he hopes to keep it that way.

On Friday, the airline offered Ebbert two free round-trip tickets, and it issued a double entendre-laced press release announcing "skimpy" sale fares of $49 to $109 each way, available for 10 days.

Efforts to reach Ebbert were unsuccessful.

Airline officials said they hadn't contacted another woman, Setara Qassim, who told a TV interviewer this week that a Southwest employee made her wrap a blanket over her short dress with plunging neckline. Southwest officials said they had no record of Qassim, 21, filing a complaint.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296886,00.html

[kh300]

that piece of shit airline is so in debt it doesnt matter.

[Tre]

that piece of shit airline is so in debt it doesnt matter.

Southwest is?

All I've ever heard is that they're one of the only profitable airlines in the country.

[kh300]

Southwest is?

All I've ever heard is that they're one of the only profitable airlines in the country.

they've been bankrupt since 05. they are at the top as far as profits, but are still under chap.11

i personally think its the worst airline, cuzvhalf there flights get cancelled. since all i do is fly and deal with the airlines, id say in the next few years jet blue will take over everything, cuz they got there shit togather.

[Dos Equis]

God bless America.  Southwest makes money.  The girl makes money.  The media gets a few headlines.  Message board material, etc., etc. 

Hooters Waitress Told to Cover Up on Southwest Airlines Flight Undresses for Playboy
Friday, November 16, 2007

DALLAS —  A 23-year-old college student who was told by a Southwest Airlines employee that her outfit was too revealing to fly is wearing even less on Playboy's Web site.

Kyla Ebbert appears in a series of pictures — some in lingerie, some nude — under the heading, "Legs in the Air."

"They're very tastefully done," Ebbert told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I don't see anything wrong with the female body."

Playboy contacted Ebbert's attorney to pitch the idea of posing. After "a little bit of talking" to convince her mother, Ebbert agreed. She said her boyfriend supported her decision, but "the most hesitant one was my dad."

On its Web site, Playboy says Ebbert "was too sexy for Southwest Airlines, but she's perfect for Playboy."

Ebbert said she was paid "less than six figures" to pose, but wouldn't give the specific amount.

A Southwest Airlines Co. employee pulled Ebbert off a flight this summer and forced her to adjust her outfit of a tank top, sweater and miniskirt before getting back on the plane.

Ebbert ripped the airline in appearances on NBC's "The Today Show" and "The Dr. Phil Show," during which she wore the outfit. Southwest officials said they don't have a dress code but don't want customers' attire to offend other passengers.

Ebbert said she was offended that Southwest tried to turn the dustup to its advantage by promoting a fare sale in honor of miniskirts. Southwest apologized to Ebbert, but she said she found the double-entendre-laced message unacceptable.

"They used my name in an ad campaign without asking permission," she said. "I thought I'd been slapped in the face."

Told of Ebbert's spread on the Playboy Web site, Southwest spokeswoman Beth Harbin said, "We wish her all the best."

Ebbert worked at a Hooters in San Diego but said wants to become an attorney, and doesn't think posing nude should get in the way of her professional aspirations.

"This was beautiful and classy. I don't see why it would affect a professional position," she said. "I'd do it again in a heartbeat."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311905,00.html

[Hugo Chavez]

saw this on Fox yesterday.  But it doesn't make it right either. 

[Dos Equis]

saw this on Fox yesterday.  But it doesn't make it right either. 

I agree, but neither one of them handled this appropriately IMO.  Southwest shouldn't have kicked her off the plane.  Her clothes looked fine to me.  And she shouldn't have made a federal case out of this.  She should simply fly on another airline.  Still, they both wound up profiting from this. 

Reminds me of the time Hertz disrespected my wife several years ago.  I wrote a letter to the company to complain about it.  Didn't like their response and have never used their service since.  And I rent a lot for business.  Only use Budget.