Buckle up because this may be the most Spirit Airlines story every that doesn’t involve a mass brawl. A woman wearing a crop top with a sweater on top boarded her flight to New Orleans and took off her sweater. And she was kicked off the flight for wearing just a crop top. Her friend, whose attire wasn’t called out by crew at all, was kicked off too.
A woman with a toddler a row away them started recording the encounter, and offered that she took off her sweater as well – so should she be kicked off, too? And that’s exactly what Spirit did. It appears that the pilot returned to the gate to remove the passengers, and then the flight proceeded.
When it finally arrived at its destination, the flight attendant who got into the altercation with passengers mocked the woman with the toddler, reportedly saying “welcome to you that made it to New Orleans. Next time mind your business and you will get to your destination sooner.”
Note that language in this video is neither safe for work nor safe for work at home:
Hey @SpiritAirlines you need to get your flight attendant in check & you owe them an apology & a refund. pic.twitter.com/dWHCtBQQFY
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) October 6, 2024
This witness found the whole thing absurd, and suggests that in retrospect the whole plane should have marched off in solidarity with these women.
Yall is spirit ghetto and Sexist? #earthquake #Trending #spirit pic.twitter.com/VrJ2QIxTAW
— Shouldcallmytherapist (@should_butwont) October 4, 2024
A Spirit Airlines spokesperson tells me,
Our Contract of Carriage, a document all Guests agree to upon making a reservation with us, includes certain clothing standards for all Guests traveling with us. We are investigating the matter, and we are in contact with the Guests about their experience.
Here they’re defending the ejections, without speaking to removing the mother in the next row.
The woman in the crop top was dressed similarly to former Miss USA and Miss Universe Olivia Culpo when she was kicked off an American Airlines flight and that seemed outrageous. But it was also American Airlines. This was Spirit.
What some are finding strangest about the story is this, but there’s a simple explanation – the oxygen masks did not actually deploy, these were from the flight attendant’s safety demo:
Crop tops require the dropping of oxygen masks now? pic.twitter.com/UPsjCPxuVw
— Cranky Aussie™ (@CrankyAussie) October 7, 2024
And with the airline working on a potential bankruptcy filing can they really afford to lose customers I’ve asked Spirit for additional details on the flight.
I don’t know what’s so hard.
You are going somewhere where everyone sees you, dress with respect.
There will be 100’s of nationalities, cultures, religions, and who-knows-what. Be sensitive to others.
And while your at it: Take a shower before heading to the airport…
I see nothing wrong with the crop top. You could see it on a young woman in many places including the grocery store and certainly at Walmart. With flight attendants allowed to do things like this one did, it is no wonder that Spirit is struggling.
I wasn’t there so I have no real say in the matter. On the other hand, being in the airline business, I see all sorts of people board the planes. NO ONE…NADA…BUPKIS thinks about the “what if something happens?” They board in pajama pants, shorts, flip flops, or dressed like pimps and whores. THOSE are the people who will, most likely, be injured or killed in an emergency situation. I’m no prude and I like a nice looking person like many others BUT, I don’t want to sit next to those “puffed up puppies”, eyelashes that, when blinked, cause the air to move, swat flies and the head to bob, and enough perfume/cologne to cause caustic burns on skin all while trapped in a pressurized tube for HOURS ON END. Agreed with others, though, Spirit reminds me of the “Jerry Springer Show”. Even American’s people are quite as bad as Spirit’s. But…’you get what you pay for.”
In my honest opinion here< I think the actions of the flight attendant was totally wrong and she should be disciplined for spouting her mouth off and acting like a Stuck up Snob and as for the two ladies in this situation, I do think they have a good case with Sueing Spirit Airlines for Discrimination & Malice
Ya please, there is so much more to this trash reporting that’s not being told.
Some FAs get on power trips.
Their colleagues need to step in to de-escalate the situation.
No one wins in these standoffs.
This is Spirit Airlines. People with no manners and inability to understand what is or isn’t event appropriate is their core customer.
Given that Spirit regularly hosts fights and wrestling matches what is wrong with their women passengers just wearing sports bras and wrestling shorts?
@Moe.. We don’t have to change our ways because people from other cultures come here. Au contrare, they have to adjust their attitudes to respect OUR culture and norms. Do people in certain middle east countries adjust their norms for us?
@Arturo S.t – so, how is the teepee, and seasonal migration to follow the hunt going for you?
Planning for the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque in April?
No?
My guess is your a decendant of a migrants here.
Lighten up Fransis.
Obviously some people do not feel such attire is wrong. Why do you think you can dictate to them what is “proper” attire?
I’m fine with the airline dictating a dress code but it should be clearly defined, anyone should be able to read it and know if a given outfit is within the limits. But they don’t–and I have a problem with rules that are subjective.
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Why do you think you can dictate to them what is “proper” attire?
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That you’re asking such a question demonstrates total ignorance.
The people who are angry at what these girls are wearing are the same kind of people that think men (“transwomen”) should be allowed in the spaces of legitmate women.
Private business property + Contract of Carriage = Follow the rules or get reprimanded.
I see nothing wrong with their dress. Believe me, I teach high school and I see far worse from the females on campus nearly every day. However, even if the crop tops were in violation of Spirit’s dress code, kicking off the woman with the toddler was just plain mean, and the flight attendant’s attitude and demeanor should get her severely reprimanded and suspended for a time.
Just another reason to not fly Spirit. Friends don’t let friends fly Spirit.
“Flyboy2000 says:
October 7, 2024 at 11:01 am
Private business property + Contract of Carriage = Follow the rules or get reprimanded.”
Please show us where in the Contract of Carriage is specifically defines what the women wore as prohibited. Please be precise and specific. You see, that’s the issue: these dress codes are so vague that it leaves enforcement up to power tripping flight attendants and sometimes gate agents; enforcement becomes arbitrary and open to abuse.
Again Flyboy, please show us where it SPECIFICALLY states in the Contract of Carriage where their specific attire was in violation.
@Win Whitmire: The whole ‘in case of emergency’ angle is rubbish. Keep your seatbelt on for turbulence. Other than that, it makes no sense to prepare for an event that there is near zero chance of happening. Even if something does happen, the chances that your wardrobe makes a difference in the outcome is additionally near zero.
If someone had been sitting in the window seat on Alaska 1282, they wouldn’t have been any less dead if they were falling through the sky with cotton long sleeves – see Southwest 1380. MH17 passengers wouldn’t have avoided that missile if they’d been dressed differently; we wouldn’t know where MH 330 is; 2 of the 3 passengers on OZ214 were killed due to not wearing their seatbelts and the 3rd from blunt force trauma for a dislodged aircraft door.
What you wear while flying has ZERO impact on anyone’s safety.
On another blog a Spirit employee is crying about the pending bankruptcy! We don’t care at all you treated passengers horrible for years! Go away for good or back to the bus company.
@Moe —>. Take into account where you are. The same person who might wear a crop top (or some other top that exposes her arms) and.or a pair of shorts on a domestic flight within the US is often the same person who would wear a long sleeved blouse and a scarf over her hair on a plane flown by one of the ME3. Dress codes on US airlines are basically non-existent. Certainly I have never seen them published by any airline, anywhere. I’ve been on flights where people — men as well as women — have worn far less. Hell I remember when flight attendants wore far less that these women did…
The REAL question here is “Why would anyone fly Spirit?”
Gary is quite right when he pointed out that nothing Spirit has said in terms of a public comment has addressed the woman with the toddler who apparently was tossed off the flight because she was videoing the interaction. Again, there is no policy that I know of that forbids that. And where would we be if people had not used their phones to record on video the actions of certain police officers (for example) with members of the public — why do you think many officers are now required to wear body cams? As the woman herself said, it’s to hold people accountable.
Along with several others here, a) I personally see nothing wrong with what they are wearing; b) IF (and it’s a big IF) an airline wants to establish a dress code for their passengers, it’s probably well within their right to do so, but it needs to be 1) clearly defined, and 2) widely published well in advance so their customers are well aware of what is and is not appropriate and therefore have a *chance* to dress “appropriately” (according to that airline’s standards) or to choose another airline; and c) said airline needs to be consistent in its enforcement of such a dress code.
TTBOMK, while an airline may have the ability to require a passenger to disembark for wearing “X,” without such guidelines published in advance, it becomes arbitrary and capricious. I’d love to see that lawsuit…
As a Spirit pilot, I have seen far worse be allowed thru. I am confident there is something else to this story we’re not seeing.
Where the truth lies I dunno, but if the entire episode is truly shown as is, being just a crop top. Then teh FA is in the wrong.
this will be interesting to watch develop.
This FA obviously was on some sort of power trip. Once Spirit goes under she will no longer be employed hopefully forever in this industry. There is no room for these type of employees in any industry.
Easy solution: don’t fly ghetto-ass Spirit. If you’re too broke to fly any airline but Spirit, then you’re too broke to fly, period
Also, do MOT give TizzyEnt any more exposure. He’s a woketard piece of shit.