{"id":305026,"date":"2017-03-27T06:20:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T06:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=305026"},"modified":"2017-03-27T06:20:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T06:20:52","slug":"united-airlines-caught-up-in-leggings-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/united-airlines-caught-up-in-leggings-row\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines caught up in leggings row"},"content":{"rendered":"
United Airlines has been heavily criticised on social media after two girls were reportedly barred from flying for wearing leggings.<\/p>\n
The incident happened on a flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday morning, activist Shannon Watts said.<\/p>\n
United said the girls were travelling on a special pass, for employees and their guests, which has a dress code.<\/p>\n
It has since clarified that all regular, paying customers are welcome to wear leggings.<\/p>\n
The girls were “United pass travellers”, which are tickets for company employees or eligible dependents, it explained in a Twitter exchange on the issue.<\/p>\n
“United pass travellers” are eligible for free or heavily discounted air travel.<\/p>\n
The dress code for pass-holders states they should not wear “form-fitting lycra\/spandex tops, pants and dresses”, among various other stipulations, including no exposed midriffs, no mini skirts and no flip-flops.<\/p>\n
Activist Shannon Watts tweeted about what happened to five girls when they tried to board a flight at Denver airport.<\/p>\n
She said a United gate agent was “forcing” the girls, one of them aged 10, to change their clothes or wear dresses over the leggings.<\/p>\n
She said three of the girls were allowed to fly after putting dresses over the top of their clothing, but two were prevented from boarding.<\/p>\n
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She criticised the airliner for its actions, asking: “Since when does United police women’s clothing?”.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
United Airlines has been heavily criticised on social media after two girls were reportedly barred from flying for wearing leggings. The incident happened on a flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday morning, activist Shannon Watts said. United said the girls were travelling on a special pass, for employees and their guests, which has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":305027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[5544,1030,5545],"yoast_head":"\n