Airline tells woman her outfit won't fly

Fri Sep 7, 10:35 PM ET



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SAN DIEGO - A 23-year-old woman who boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in a short skirt for a flight to Arizona says she was led off the plane for wearing an outfit that was considered too skimpy.

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Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee asked her to leave her seat while the plane was preparing to leave San Diego's Lindbergh Field on July 3.

Ebbert, a student who was headed to Tucson for a doctor's appointment, said Friday on NBC's "Today" show that the employee told her she would have to catch a later flight.

"You're dressed inappropriately. This is a family airline. You're too provocative to fly on this plane," she quoted the employee as saying.

"I said, 'What part is it? The shirt? The skirt? Which part?' And he said the whole thing."

Ebbert was eventually allowed back on the plane after offering to adjust her sweater but said she was humiliated and embarrassed.

"I felt like everybody was staring at me. They had all heard him lecturing me," she told "Today" show host Matt Lauer. She appeared on the show in the same short white skirt, white shirt and green sweater that she said she wore on the flight.

Chris Mainz, a spokesman for the Dallas-based airline, said a customer service supervisor asked Ebbert to leave the plane and addressed her in the walkway leading back to the terminal, "away from the other customers."

The employee felt the outfit "revealed too much" but was placated after Ebbert made adjustments that included covering her stomach, Mainz said.

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it seems like something anyone would wear on the street... ?!?!?!?

i think these employees are getting to bold..your babys crying GET OFF THE PLAIN..yor babys talking GET OFF THE PLAIN..your skirt is to short OFF YOU GOOO..what next?? to much makeup??? hair to long?? heels to high?? seriously they need to mind their damn busness..how annoying..

? How is her outfit unappropriate?

The airline owes that lady an apology....

That is ridiculous. How do clothes and flying have anything to do with each other? As long as it doesnt distract the pilot, who cares? If other people are bothered by it, tell them not to look.

The freak. It's not like she has a bomb implanted on her clothes.

o wth haha that's messed up. lol provocative...

her outfit doesnt even look that revealing, I saw this on tv and they interviewed her. poor girl

She's was prettier than the Flight Attendents so they got jealous and booted her off.

wtf lolol
i see highschoolers wearing outfits like that all the time

lol i'm too sexy for my skirt!! she should of been like: "^.~ Do you want to help me take it off then." lol

Hahaha.

Yeah. I think the airlines are really uptight about their flights now.

thats really ridiculous O.O"
what shes wearing isnt too revealing ?
they're getting so stupid with their rules now days -__-;;

LOL thats just straight out dumb.
Seriously, she's not like Britney Spears wearing no panties.
At least that lady has a panty on, right?


Wow now you have to dress well to get in plane? Stupid.

Give me a freakn break, she's in her early 20s and that is appropriate for her age. Plus she's got a hot bod, why the heck not? If someone dare gave me a lecture like that in public I would've cuss the crap outta him/her and show them whose boss.

If it was too much for a plane outfit, then he should've gently took her aside and tell her. How rude of him to do that to her in front of the public, she ain't a highschooler.

Hmm gosh, how ridculous of people these
days!

Thats just stupid.

=_=

At least her body can pull off that mini skirt =]

it's a normal outfit too, nothing near a slut would wear...

what's wrong with her dress anyway?
airlines nowadays are such a busybody.

that is ridiculous!
i saw a woman wore that kind of outfit before when im on my trip to china..
it doesn't reveal too much -.-"
its not like her big boobs attracted to many family..

i agree with the airline.
i'm the same age as her (23), and i wouldn't wear anything like that on an airplane, let alone out in public.
she looks like a cheap trick, and if her legs weren't crossed we'd all be getting a full view of her panties.

^ how does she look cheap? honey, if you're wearing a skirt , would YOU sit with your legs WIDE open? besides you wouldn't see her panties unless you're staring hardcore at her crotch. it's common sense to sit like that also if you watch the clip, she had her legs crossed, a magazine on her lap, and her purse in front of her, the only way you could see her panties was if you pulled her legs apart yourself ....

anyway, too bad she didn't sue the employee for being so stupid and pathetic.

She looks perfectly normal. Just because you don't wear it doesn't mean others who do are cheap.

yea how dare she wear a skirt. that skank.


Anyway I head she's suing the airline I hope she wins. What they did was plain rude and unnecessary.

Stupid, stupid, idiotic, people.
Haha, I really hope she wins.

she should get a free roundtrip to anywhere she likes from that airline .. =p
unless she was wearing something else..

LOL it's just a skirt haha. She dresses normal to me.


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man i don't think she's even dressed provocative ...maybe her big boobs might make it look like that but thats so stupid.

It was a male flight attendant -.-

i hope she wins
her skirt isn't that short -__-

That is an obscenely short skirt.

[edit] Heh. You guys should watch the video. She flashed herself on national television.

-___- That is so stupid! jeez.... seriously. This world is wacko @_@

Aish!! It's not her fault she's pretty, dammit! If it were a totally hideous looking woman, I dare say she would've had no problems getting on board...

Umm, her outfit is fine...
Wow, they must be trippin'.

I feel sorry for the poor girl....thats not skimpy at all....I thought it would be like....stripper clothes....

there is nothing wrong with that outfit... looks normal to me.
i'm glad she is sueing that stupid employee, i hope she wins

normally, I'm all for being conservative, but these people are outta control. don't they have more important things to do than to bother some woman about her mini skirt? I mean, at least she's grown. it's not like she's some 14 year-old skank. the airline people are taking this too far.

watched the video. the lady has nice legs and didnt deserve any of that treatment. hell, i know about some pushy air stewardesses. they think that they're role models or something. southwest should issue and apology..

Wow.
Scary ,my mum always says to me to wear 'formal' stuff when i get on the plane.But its gets too stuffy and i can't sleep.==''

I don't see what's wrong with the way she's dressed.
Tons of girls dress like that to school, the mall, or wherever..
Restaurants and movie theaters are family places too but i don't see girls getting kicked out for those kind of outfits.
How ridiculous.

wow, that's f'ed up. O_O
her clothing isn't even that revealing!

her skirt is the length of any abercrombie skirt ><
it looks completely fine
yeah it's short...but many girls wear skirts like that
plus.. she was going from one hot climate to another...

Why does it say advertisement....?
but anyways, this is ridiculous..
that's what they call sexy? LOL
but it does look kind of skimpy and inappropriate... for her age

EDIT:// I ROCKED THIS PAGEEE =D

uhh...the skirt is too short.i'm tired of being around chicks that hike up their skirts high enough for me to see their panties.and most likely, anyone could see her panties.yes, skirts that short are skanky.uhh, it looks cheap because that skirt is riding up her cootch.she's got her legs crossed and a purse on her lap because she knows that anyone sitting across from her could get a full view of her cootch.i wear skirts for work at times, and i don't need to put bags and crap all up on my legs cuz the skirt is an appropriate length.

Why couldn't they have just made her put a blanket over her legs or something? How incredibly ridiculous. Such a waste of time and resources too, having to delay the flight because some girl is wearing "skimpy" clothes? I agree that she looks kinda slutty but that's no reason to boot her off the plane.

i disagree with what little mixed girl has said. though i wouldnt say how she dresses is the norm, but i certainly wouldnt say that it is over the board. even so they should have done things more tactfully, she is the customer after all!

customer service in america these days leaves much to be desired. imagine being in her shoes. it must be terrible to be told off over such a trivial matter.

omg the poor girl. must've been really embarassing to be told off in front of everyone. they really need to apologize cause her outfit isn't too revealing. the skirt is a bit short but almost everyone wears skirts just as short

The skirt does look pretty short to me but I don't know if that's even a reason to kick people off the plane.

Eff that. She looks nice. And PHX gets to bloody 107 degrees!
The flight obviously had NOTHING to do. Jerks.

heh, he's gay then.

Wow, okay. I'll make sure I won't wear my shorts next time I'm going on a trip.

and a free ticket to arizona with it... apology aint gonna make up for the money and time she wasted..