Is it possible to be too trashy to fly Spirit Airlines? Is it possible to wear shorts that are too short as a passenger departing from South Florida on Spirit Airlines? Who knew.
One woman flying from Miami to Chicago was removed from her Spirit flight – and her sister handcuffed – on Wednesday. The gate agent in Miami told her she’d have to change, but she says she didn’t “have anything to change into’ because she’d shipped her bags ahead.
“We were getting ready to board the plane, and the lady at the front desk, she stopped me and said, ‘You’re not getting on a plane like that,'” Grayer said. “So I looked at her and I said, ‘Like what?’ She said, ‘With those shorts.'”
…”This is just regular shorts. This is how I walked through the airport,” Grayer said. “This is how I walked through the airport with these shorts with my robe. This is exactly how I have my clothes.”
The woman’s sister, Jessica Kordelewski, was arrested on charges of
- Disorderly Conduct / Breach of the Peace (F.S. 877.03) – $150 bond.
- Trespass‑Property After Warning (F.S. 810.09(1)(a)1) – $500 bond.
From the charges it appears she was likely shouting, cursing, and refused to leave when ordered to do so.
According to Spirit Airlines,
We always want our Guests to feel welcome and have a great experience. Consistent with other U.S. airlines, our Contract of Carriage contains certain clothing standards for all Guests traveling with us. Our records show a Guest was not in compliance with our Contract of Carriage and refused to comply when provided an opportunity to do so. The Guest and their travel companion were eventually denied boarding after displaying disruptive behavior. Further questions should be directed to law enforcement.
They may not be able to outrun their reputation, but Spirit Airlines is trying to go more upscale! They have a first class now, not just ‘the Big Front Seat’.
That new policy includes no see-through clothing; no exposed breasts, buttocks or other private parts; no lewd, obscene or offensive clothing and tattoos; and you can’t be barefoot.
Airlines enforcing dress codes is pretty fraught, since discretion is generally left to individual employee discretion with little training or consistency. The woman complains that she was dressed the same way for her outbound flight with no issues.
When an American Airlines passenger was kicked off a flight for wearing an ‘F-cancer’ hoodie American apologized, saying that the employee should have “taken the broader context of the message displayed on the customer’s shirt into consideration” and not enforced the rule.
Yet a passenger was kicked off of a flight for wearing an F-12 mask and the airline did not apologize. This is a little bit more controversial of a message, perhaps (anti-police) but it used the same word, came right on the heels of the George Floyd protests (context), and the airline’s CEO at the time started wearing a Black Lives Matter wristband shortly before the incident. The airline even made Black Lives Matter pins available to employees.
Meanwhile, American told a former Miss Universe to cover up if she wanted to fly. She was wearing clothing less revealing than others on the same flight.
Who knew, though, that Spirit Airlines had a dress code, though? Earlier this year they kicked off a passenger over their hoodie and last year over her crop top.
Why is it with women who have this issue with thinking that they are dressing for Haulover beach or the pussycat lounge?
I do not see men with issues of being in hot pants or jock straps at gate 10.
Ah, this one is like an ‘ad lib’ for haters. “Spirit. Chicago. Black. Woman.” Go! Go! Go!
She knew her booty shorts were inappropriate. How did she think a bathrobe would help?
She also missed the point… The airline doesn’t control MIA. Only pax on the plane. She can strut her booty shorts all over the airport. But I bet she’d be denied boarding on more than just Spirit.
I’m pretty much only wear booty shorts each time I fly but they’re all booty shorts cause I’m so thicc.
I’ve seen much worse in the MIA airport.
@Joseph — Thank you for your service, sir. Thank. You.
@Coffee Please — You gonna hoard all those juice ‘deets’ to yourself. Spread ’em!
Just watched the video. Bootliscious getting sassy with the police. Definitely a cultural thing.
I applaud this although it still won’t make me fly with them.
@Coffee Please — Ah… yes, it’s… ‘the culture.’ How ‘thinly-veiled.’ *faceplam*
@1990. I live in South Florida and have friends that live near South Beach. The stories they tell during Spring Break down there. Not just Spring Break anymore at South Beach.
@Coffee Please — Oh, I know; in NYC now, but I lived the ‘tri-county area’ for a while. MIA/FLL/PBI.
@Dillon I REALLY miss the Pink Pussycat out near MIA. A true institution.
How about just no shorts, period? I don’t want to have skin to skin contact with my seat neighbor. Unfortunately it’s always the most overweight, ugly ones that insist on exposing their fat rolls to the world.
There’s a reason I haven’t been to South Beach in years. This is morbidly obese women watching an “influencer” on Tik Tok tell them that no matter how overweight they may be it’s perfectly fine to walk around in public in a near naked state. Even to the point Spirit Airlines won’t let you board one of their flying ghettos/trailer parks.
There are days I’m not opposed to the notion of a National Dress Code.
I really couldn’t decide which comment to go with, so here’s everything:
Spirit didn’t ban her for being trashy, they just don’t have the hazmat budget to steam-clean a trail of ass sweat and clamshell glaze off 29C.
Her cooter was practically handing out boarding passes.
TSA didn’t need a pat-down; they needed a mop.
Her beef curtains were flapping down Concourse C like they were trying to taxi for takeoff.
Nobody knows this subject better than Mike Hunt.
Attire only unacceptable to board when you are obese and unattractive and thought to be an eyesore
It’s all in the fine print 😉
@Mike Hunt.
Hilarious! MIA airport is always entertaining.
As someone who is fairly liberal, I am surprisingly traditional in some areas. I have no issue telling passengers who dress like to or wear attire with offensive words / images to change or they don’t get to board. We have to have some level of social standards.
And while they’re changing their clothes you can remind these kids to stay off my lawn! LOL!
@Mike Hunt — Oh, the phonetics of ‘my c..t’ describing ‘beef curtains.’ Bah!
@Denver Refugee — National dress code, you say. Just curious, what color would the shirts be… brown? I’m down for the leather boots.
@Parker — My political preferences are center-left, but I live like a conservative in daily life. It’s odd. Also, get off my ‘stoop!’ (We don’t have lawns so much in NYC.)