No way.
A woman was reportedly stopped from boarding a JetBlue flight in Boston because her shorts were deemed “too short”.
KIRO News 7 reports that burlesque performer Maggie McMuffin was waiting at the gate for a Boston to Seattle flight when she was told she could not board.
Speaking to the news outlet, Maggie said a flight attendant told her: “the flight crew had discussed it and the pilot had decided that I needed to put something else on or I would not be allowed to board the flight”.
Maggie said that she flew from New York to Boston earlier that day and went through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint earlier that day and there were no issues with her outfit.
However when she queried this, she was told: “it was the pilot’s final say so these are official rules that can be broken”.
Jet Blue 7 has released the below statement on the matter:
“The gate and on board crew discussed the customer’s clothing and determined that the burlesque shorts may offend other families on the flight. While the customer was not denied boarding, the crew members politely asked if she could change. The customer agreed and continued on the flight without interruption.
We support our crew members’ discretion to make these difficult decisions, and we decided to reimburse the customer for the cost of the new shorts and offered a credit for future flight as a good will gesture.”
Her friend, Molly McIssac, later took to Facebook to inform her social media friends of Maggie’s situation:
