Spirit Airlines has updated its contract of carriage and included in the update are stricter and more clearly defined rules concerning acceptable dress and appearance onboard. I commend Spirit for this dress code update.
Spirit Airlines Updates Dress Code
Spirit has now added more specificity to its dress code, specifically banning see-through clothing, the inadequate covering of “private” parts, and body art that may be lewd or offensive.
§4.3 of the updated contract of carriage states:
A guest shall not be permitted to board the aircraft or may be required to leave an aircraft if that guest…is barefoot or inadequately clothed (i.e., see-through clothing; not adequately covered; exposed breasts, buttocks, or other private parts), or whose clothing or article, including body art, is lewd, obscene, or offensive in nature.
Its previous verbiage was more general and did not mention body art:
A guest shall not be permitted to board the aircraft or may be required to leave an aircraft if that guest…is barefoot or inadequately clothed, or whose clothing is lewd, obscene, or offensive in nature.
Spirit warns that if passengers are denied service for violating the rules, they will not receive a refund.
Living in LA, I may be numb to see-through clothes or vulgar tattoos, but I appreciate that Spirit is clarifying its standards, which should reduce incidents onboard like an entire family being thrown off last summer because a male flight attendant thought two females in the party were innapratiely dressed in crop tops:
Folks, from a utilitarian perspective and to promote peace onboard, I think it is reasonable to ask people to cover up and dress in a manner that is not going to make others uncomfortable. If you have a vulgar tattoo, cover it up. If you are showing too much skin, put on a sweater.
That’s really not too much to ask…
Hopefully, the new standards will promote clarity and lead to fewer messy confrontations onboard. There’s still a great deal of discretion in determining what “lewd, obscene, or offensive” is, but this helps.
This will solve any possible issues-NOT!! Who is in charge of enforcing this?? Who has the final say??
Sad that common decency and sense need to be regulated.
I blame the gay and lesbian (and other assorted freaks) with their parades that have been seen in recent years. One bone smuggler walking around with his junk out and others think it’s now acceptable on planes.
Save it for the cross-burning, Adolf.
And we found another tonsil jockey looking to groom kids.
People like you are defective
I get that choice of clothes will vary by person and some may be offended by some choice and other not. Now, the one prohibition that called my attention is “barefoot”. Who would be that stupid to board a plane without wearing any type of shoes?
Ever been to South Africa?
I say this about every dress code incident, but it’s always true. If people just ignore the person, or look away, there’s nothing to worry about. You may not like someone’s tattoos, but the funny thing is that they don’t harm you one bit. They also don’t harm your children, or your elderly mother etc…
How are they planning to decide what the ‘nature’ of something is? I suppose there must be a few unemployed philosophy graduates out there, perhaps they’ll be focusing their cabin crew recruitment campaigns on that type of demographic.