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DOT Secretary Sean Duffy launched a campaign lecturing travelers on etiquette, blaming passenger behavior for inflight frustrations. Yet he conveniently ignores far bigger problems—including airlines shielded from accountability, TSA-induced travel stress, and, ironically, his own boss’s famously poor manners.
Sean Duffy and Gavin Newsom are suddenly relitigating pandemic mask mandates and arguing over how people should dress on airplanes — a bizarre clash years after the rules ended. The exchange isn’t really about masks or manners at all, but about positioning for 2028 and appealing to their respective bases.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is on a courtesy campaign, trying to get passengers to be kind to each other and to flight crew – and to dress better. But what people wear isn’t the driver of conflict in the skies.
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 says “I was unaware that American Airlines had a dress code that said you can’t wear athletic attire if you have big boobs.”
An American Airlines passenger went online to blast the carrier, “They made me cover my butt because my shorts were too short!”
She says she was told by the gate agent that the flight crew saw her outfit and “said that [she] needed to change” in order to “cover my butt.”
Commercial real estate broker Kyle Matthews is blowing up online for his advice to always dress in a suit when flying, saying that it will open the door to business opportunities. Is he right?
Marine Corps veteran Catherine Banks was pulled off a flight from San Francisco on Wednesday when a flight attendant demanded she remove her shirt calling attention to veteran suicide. There were two problems for Banks: the message was important to her, and she didn’t have a bra on underneath.
An American Airlines passenger says she purchased a $2,000 ticket but was denied boarding over the clothing she was wearing. Gate agents called police. She complains that she’s being refused boarding over a ‘dress code’ but the airline ‘refuses to show’ her the dress code.
Ms. Archbold boarded the flight and then was approached by an airline employee and was told that her attire violated Delta’s dress code.
Her trip had been for promoting a liquor brand at the Sundance Film Festival, and thought when she was approached that she was in for a scolding over her checked suitcase full of vodka bottles. It was actually her lack of a bra.
British Airways retracted their guidance requiring female cabin crew to wear white bras to go with the new sheer blouse included with their uniform after union objections. This follows similar past controversies over uniform-related ‘sexualization’ and contrasts with extreme practices at airlines like Malindo Air and Kuwait Airways, where female applicants were asked to disrobe during interviews.
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