Spirit Airlines Is Instituting A New Dress Code for Passengers Banning "Revealing Clothing", and "Offensive Tattoos"
IBTimes- Spirit Airlines is shaking up its in-flight policies with a new dress code unveiled Wednesday that could leave some passengers grounded for wearing "revealing" clothing or displaying "offensive" tattoos.
Under the updated terms of Spirit's Contract of Carriage, passengers are prohibited from wearing see-through outfits, exposing private parts, or displaying lewd, obscene, or offensive body art.
The budget carrier clarified that guests agree to these terms when booking their tickets, making adherence mandatory.
So the same airline best known for seats that feel like reinforced lawn chairs, and overhead bins that charge you rent, just announced a bold new dress code. And I personally am all about it.
Spirit is saying “enough is enough” to skimpy outfits, offensive tattoos, and basically anything that could make your seatmate’s jaw drop for all the wrong reasons. Now, I think we all have to ask the real question: When are the rest of America’s airlines (and every other business, for that matter) going to see the light and follow Spirit’s shining example of raising its standards?
No more see-through wardrobe malfunctions. No more "private parts" making cameos in seat 32B. And definitely no more tattoos reading “Spawn of Satan” or that scrawled gang sign you picked up during your fifth parole hearing.
I don’t know about you, but it’s about time. Who wants to watch someone’s homemade reality show unfold during a six-hour flight?
If "revealing” to you means any combination of body parts contorting themselves into questionable leggings, or your seatmate’s thong creeping up to their shoulders, Spirit’s here to rescue you.
We should be praising them for once again continuing to raise the bar.
Think of the peace and serenity of a flight with people who respect themselves enough not to get “I love jail,” tattooed on their forehead.
Sure, sure- there’s a chance 90% of Spirit’s most loyal clientele just discovered their go-to wardrobe is illegal at 35,000 feet. But this is progress.
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Talk about how bizarre it is that we live in an age where Spirit Airlines is the one lecturing us on decency.
This is the same airline that charges extra fees for breathing, and now they’re the guardians of in-flight morality.
Personally, I’m just waiting for other carriers, yes, you, Delta, American, and United, to adopt the Spirit code. Because if this race to the bottom has taught us anything, it’s that low fares and high standards can apparently coexist in some bizarre twist of modern capitalism.
p.s.- I said this in my last Spirit blog last month (about their staff being instructed to shake down customers), and it still plays, so I'll use it again. so you know how something like 70% of tv news network advertising comes pharmaceutical companies in non election years? They don’t advertise to get us to go out and buy their product obviously. Because we can’t do that. They do that because it insulates and protects them from ever being mentioned negatively or from ever having reports or investigations done. It’s like the mob and “hush money”. Well, not to ruin a good thing we have going for us, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how the sales departments of Spirit and Barstool both haven’t inked a giant deal making Spirit the official airline of Barstool Sports by now. They are a treasure trove of blog material for us. The gift that keeps on giving. And they haven’t figured out the easiest way to shush us.