Another Dress Code Violation on Southwest

Another woman has come forward complaining of her treatment on Southwest Airlines:

DALLAS — Have airline employees replaced high school deans as the arbiters of appropriate dress, or have skimpily-clad passengers forced flight attendants to act like Mother?

A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines Co. employees made her cover up on a recent flight.

Setara Qassim told KNBC-TV in Los Angeles that a flight attendant confronted her during the trip from Tucson, Ariz., to Burbank, Calif., and asked if she had a sweater to go over her green halter-style dress.

Qassim, 21, said she was forced to wrap a blanket around herself for the rest of the flight. She complained that if Southwest wants passengers to dress a certain way, it should publish a dress code.

Last week, 23-year-old Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee pulled her aside as she was preparing to board a plane departing San Diego for Tucson in July and told her she was dressed too provocatively to fly on the plane.

Ebbert, who took her case to NBC's "Today Show," said she was allowed on the plane, but only after adjusting her sweater and short skirt. She said she was humiliated and felt the stares of other passengers who had overheard the verbal dressing-down.

Southwest acknowledged the incident involving Ebbert, but airline spokesman Chris Mainz said the company had no record that Qassim ever complained.

What surprises me is that neither of these incidents occurred on a Las Vegas flight. I have a friend who works for the TSA at a local airport and one time when I told him I was flying to Vegas on a Friday afternoon he said "Oh, you're taking the hooker flight". What?

Well, it seems that a great many "working girls" travel to Vegas on Friday to spend the weekend looking for business on the Strip. As a TSA agent it's his duty to search the luggage of the people flying out of that airport, and he told me I wouldn't believe the stuff those ladies are carrying in their checked baggage. I don't want to know.

Sure enough, when we showed up at the airport that Friday everywhere you looked there were skimpily dressed females, some traveling alone, and some with other women. I don't remember anybody being asked to cover up. Maybe that kind of dress is expected on Vegas trips.

I'm pretty sure that if I was skimpily dressed they would have asked me to cover up.