MSNBC, September 9, 2007
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.’”
Ebbert said she was on a day trip from San Diego to Tucson 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.
I smell a nice BIG lawsuit. And properly so.
Here’s a link to their blog
http://www.blogsouthwest.com/
Comment by greyhawk — September 9, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
…Dude, they blurred her crotch on the news! I’ve seen this girl stand up and sit down about three times and she’s flashed every time. Her butt cheeks would be directly on the seat, not to mention that you can see where the line of where her hip meets her leg is and she is clearly pushing the skirt down as far as it will go so it looks appropo on TV. I would put money on that she did not wear it as long as possible when she got on the plane and that her underwear (if any) were probably CLEARLY visible on that plane.
Comment by tamarama — September 10, 2007 @ 9:44 am
Personally I didn’t notice, I wasn’t looking for a way to trash her. My concern is that a corporation using public facilities used a moral judgement to decide who can use their services. Isn’t her cash green enough?
Comment by greyhawk — September 11, 2007 @ 8:57 am