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They threw it from the plane to use a short blouse: dress codes in the airlines?Register for Free to Continue Reading

You are going to take a flight for your holiday on the expected beach.You already paid the hotel, you bought many SPF blockers bottles and prepared the best playlist to listen to the flight.I bet that the last thing you are thinking is whether your outfit is modest or not.

However, in recent years there has been an increase in cases in which the airline staff considers that the clothes of a passenger, generally of a woman, is "inappropriate", which causes him to get him out of the plane or to beIt forces you to cover.

In September, a woman accused Alaska Airlines of harassment after they took her out of a flight to take an outfit that the flight assistant considered "inappropriate."

Ray Lin Howard, a large rapper and stylist from Fairbanks, Alaska, which is known as the artistic name of Fat Trophy Wife, shared his experience in a Tiktok video that has been seen more than nine million times.

And it is not the first time that happens.In March 2019, Emily O'Connor tweeted a thread in which she said she had been "altered and annoying" after the crew of a Birmingo -cook's flight from Birmingham to Tenerife threatened to take it out of the plane if it was not coveredThe short blouse outfit with high -shot pants.

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O'Conor said that no member of the airport staff had commented on his outfit and that, when he asked, no passenger said he had a problem with him.However, when she approached the plane, she affirmed that the airline staff humiliated her threatening her with getting her luggage from her out of the plane unless she was covered and making speaker ads on the situation.

So what is the dress code for a plane?

It is confusing because each airline in the world can determine their own dress code, and most are vague or non -existent.Some airlines, mainly Americans, have a set of terms and conditions of “transport conditions” that include dress code requirements for passengers, but many do not have it.

For example, Alaska Airlines' policy says: “The requirement only consists of a clean and well -arranged appearance.Dirty or tattered clothes are never accepted or barefoot.It is expected that as passengers they will use their good judgment, but the customer service agents will have the final authority to reject the trip through a clothing or inappropriate appearance. ”

The "Declaration of Responsibilities of the Passenger" by American Airlines establishes: "To guarantee a safe environment for all, it must ... dress properly;No bare feet or offensive clothes are allowed. ”There are no more details about the meaning of "offensive clothes", or who decides what that definition is.

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Meanwhile, Thomas Cook does not have any type of clothing code on its website.

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Basically, this means that any member of the cabin crew could be offended with any capprive outfit, and passengers receive little orientation from the airline on the garments they should avoid.

Katherine Allen of Hugh James, a legal firm that is responsible for claims of individual consumers, among other cases, says that it is rare that the United Kingdom airlines have current dress codes.

“Ba and Virgin do reserve the right to refuse to take you in certain circumstances, but if you review the circumstances mentioned, they say nothing about the dress code.

"They have a little information about denying the approach‘ if you or your luggage affect the comfort of other passengers, "he added and mentioned that this would be difficult to apply to clothes.

Most of the cases in which airlines have put objections to clothing involve destinations or hot weather starting points, from which some people prefer to wear light garments or to wear on the beach.This is understandable: in fact, many have done things backwards, how to reach tropical climates with jeans and sweaters that begin to suffocate.

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In June 2019, Dr. Tisha Rowe, who lives in Houston, fought with a member of the American Airlines staff on a flight from the suffocating Jamaica climate to Miami, who has an equally warm climate, when a flight assistant Le LeHe said he couldn't get on the plane without covering his overalls without straps.As she did not have bigger garments at hand, she was forced to cover himself with a plane blanket to be able to board.

"I like being comfortable when I travel," Rowe said surprised at Washington Post at that time.She declared that her outfit was not "too different from other passengers that I have seen" on the planes, as she demonstrated it by publishing a photo of the typical Christmas look on Twitter.

It is worth noting that, like Ray Lin Howard, Dr. Rowe is a robust figure color.The people who commented on her tweet insisted that the cabin crew was unlikely to question a thin white woman with the same outfit, while her lawyer, Geoffrey Berg, described the incident as a "sexist and racist attack”

"I felt that they were discriminating about being a fat, tattooed and mestizo woman, which in turn left me full of emotions such as anger, disappointment, helplessness, humiliation and confusion," Howard told the press after his encounter with Alaska Airlines.

Dr. Rowe advised the persons judged for their attire on board to seek a legal appeal.

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“I think they should take legal actions.Until the airlines treat all passengers just and put clear clothing codes in writing, they must be responsible for the mental anguish they cause through their insensitive behavior, ”he told The Independent.

She says that American Airlines offered compensation, but she rejected her.

Allen says that the difficulty for the plaintiffs who deal with airlines that deny them the approach is that the payments that make such airlines often are worth less than what would be spent on instructing a lawyer.

“I always advise people who do not inform a law firm if they are going to end up spending more costs than they would get damage.We offer advice with pleasure, but many times people do not want to follow these cases. "

Fortunately, judging by clothing is still relatively rare worldwide, and incidents are not common in the United Kingdom and Europe.

The travel expert Rob Staines, who worked as a cabin crew for many years, says: "In my work experience with several airlines, the crew is not indicated to pay attention to passengers dressed" inappropriately. "

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He told The Independent that in the 17 years he worked for several airlines, he had never seen anything as the cases described above.

The crew can be forced to take measures if someone is wearing clothes that is "openly sexual or that has offensive language or images," says Staines, but will only take the measures "if other passengers stand out a problem."

Attorney Katherine Allen agrees that it is an unlikely scenario within Europe.

“I think it is unlikely here because we have the‘ approach rejection ’rules in the United Kingdom and Europe, so they are denied the approach and send him to a different flight, he may be entitled to compensation.

“Then European and the United Kingdom airlines do not want to deny the approach because they don't want to pay compensation.It is a European legislative element that is still in force in the United Kingdom and does not seem to leave soon. ”

She mentions that as the United States does not have this legislation, airline staff has more will to face more passengers.

"From a practical point of view, I recommend that you review the terms and conditions before taking a flight," he says.

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"If there is anything about the dress code and you don't know if what you're wearing, then put a jacket or sports jackets in your hand luggage so you can wear them."

Allen thinks that it is an obsolete policy that could be considered discriminatory against women.

Rob Staines agrees: "Most airlines actively encourage the crew to treat all passengers as people and reserve the judgment on personal appearance."

After all, he says: "Many times it happens that the passenger with the most informal clothes could be the one in a premium cabin, which means that it attracted greater income."