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.