Sara Blake Cheek complains that an American Airlines flight attendant made her “button [her] shirt” in order to fly out of Atlanta on Sunday.
She reportedly lives in the Tampa area, so was likely flying to Charlotte. She’s an AAdvantage Platinum member, willing to connect on American rather than fly Delta non-stop it seems.
Ms. Cheek says “I was unaware that American Airlines had a dress code that said you can’t wear athletic attire if you have big boobs” and complains that another passenger was allowed to fly with the same exact outfit in a different color (but who was less well-endowed).
Finally leaving Atlanta after a cancelled flight this morning, rescheduling twice, and then being delayed. Now the flight attendant, tells me to button my shirt, but not the other women wearing the same outfit but are different in color than I am. @AmericanAir glad I’m a…
— Sara Blake Cheek (@saracheeky1) August 31, 2025
The flight attendant on @AmericanAir told me I needed to button up my shirt prior to boarding my flight. I was unaware that American Airlines had a dress code that said you can’t wear athletic attire if you have big boobs. pic.twitter.com/o1ZbtKoZfj
— Sara Blake Cheek (@saracheeky1) August 31, 2025
This is the outfit @AmericanAir flight attendant said I needed to fix prior to boarding. pic.twitter.com/iD6z50ckot
— Sara Blake Cheek (@saracheeky1) September 1, 2025
34-year old Cheek is a former Playboy ‘Playmate’ and “OnlyFans superstar.” She’s a sports talk show host who runs The VIP Ballers and has over half a million social media followers. She lives in Florida, and reports differ on whether she has three or four kids. No stranger to controversy, she and her family were banned from a Florida ice rink in 2023 due to “unacceptable behavior” which she says is because of her profession not her actions.
American and Southwest have seemingly had the most confrontations with passengers over their attire. American told a curvaceous woman to wear a blanket in order to fly and refused boarding to a Turkish fitness model. They even told a former Miss Universe that her athleisure wear wouldn’t fly when she was more modestly dressed than other passengers on the same flight.
@yahooentertainment #AmericanAirlines told #OliviaCulpo to “cover up” her #sportsbra and #bikeshorts or else she wouldn’t be able to fly to #Cabo ♬ original sound – Yahoo Entertainment
However, American Airlines flight attendants are actually no longer allowed to kick passengers off flights because of their odor, attire, or attitude. They can no longer use their own judgment to kick you off of a flight unless you’re a threat to safety or security.
That’s what cabin crew were told with a revision to the airline’s Inflight Manual last fall, and comes as a result of a review prompted by eight black men being removed from an aircraft over reported body odor issue (the men did not know each other and were not traveling together, and the NAACP threatened to reinstate its travel warning against flying American as a result).
- When there are concerns unrelated to safety or security, those need to be raised by a passenger before any action is taken.
- The goal is to avoid removing a customer, not to remove them.
- No flight attendant can act alone – two crewmembers need to work on resolution.
- While the captain retains authority on passenger removal for safety of the flight, if it’s not a safety/security issue the captain now must contact a Complaint Resolution Official at the airline. And crew must fill out a CERS report.
Here’s the relevant internal summary of the change, that went out to every American Airlines flight attendant:
The memo continues,
Leaving things like behavior and attire standards up to the airline’s customers, rather than asking a flight attendant to guess at what is offensive, and asking more than one employee to be involved in the decision seem like reasonable steps to address ambiguity. And when immediate safety isn’t a concern, bringing in the company’s perspective seems like the right move, too.
Playboy/Only Fans??? She looks like she is homeless
I applaud the flight attendant. For those customers unable to determine for themselves how to dress in public (which they have already shown to be the case by their choice of career), the public needs flight crew to help to make things right.
@David S.
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Oh, yeesh. if she wants to walk around with her boobs hanging out, that’s her choice. We’ll all survive the situation.
A Flight Attendant told her to button up BEFORE boarding? Somehow, I think Ms. Cheek meant the Gate Agent.
I once read in a wedding planning book, “politely decline offers from friends or relatives to perform at your wedding, unless you are certain the rendition will be of performance quality”
I adapt that here to say, “resist the temptation to remove clothes in public unless you are certain your rendition will be of display quality.“
That being said, in my humble opinion, this “rendition is of display quality.”
So my vote is, letter board without any wardrobe modifications. If you don’t like it, look away. If you do like it, enjoy the rendition.
Oh good, another ad for some thot’s OF. Cover up, nobody thinks your act is cute, especially at age 34.
And to think that 50 years ago people literally got dressed up to fly. Men in suits and women in long dresses. Now everybody on the plane looks like they’re dressed to mow the lawn.
onlyfans “superstar”?
She puts the whore in attention whore!
I am less offended by this than all the people in flip flops on the plane.
@TravelWarr: I’ll dress like it’s a fine dining restaurant when the airline feeds me like it’s one.
BUSTED!!!!
Ms Cheek, If you wear appropriate clothing that covers the goods, you will not need an ugly flannel shirt. Also brush your hair.
Some of you come to the airport looking like you just rolled out of bed some of you come to the airport looking like you made a movie the night before and I’m not talking about a Disney movie. I know you really care about other people but at least care about yourself have some type of respect for yourself because we talk about you as soon as you pass by us.
I can’t believe I made it this far in the comments and no one has suggested that she… ‘turn the other cheek.’ And by ‘cheek,’ I’m not talking about the ones on her face… *tap* (that’s a fairly vanilla biblical and anatomical combo joke, about a porn star, folks… kinda hard to pull off, but here we are!)
It’s sad that in today’s world, it’s “all about me” everywhere you go. Women have little to no class anymore and go to great lengths to alter themselves physically for attention. People, religion, businesses – anything to make a buck no matter what the cost, including ones sense of dignity, right?