Ms. Watts went over to the neighboring gate and saw a “frantic” family with two young girls, one of whom was also wearing<br />leggings, engaged in a tense exchange with a gate agent who told them, “I don’t make the rules, I just enforce them.”<br />Ms. Watts said the girl’s mother told her the two teenagers had just been turned away<br />because the gate agent said their pants were not appropriate travel attire.<br />After Barring Girls for Leggings, United Airlines Defends Decision -<br />By LIAM STACKMARCH 26, 2017<br />United Airlines barred two teenage girls from boarding a flight on Sunday morning<br />and required a child to change into a dress after a gate agent decided the leggings they were wearing were inappropriate.<br />https://t.co/RKsIFoE8pq<br />Jonathan Guerin, a spokesman for United, confirmed<br />that two teenage girls were told they could not board a flight from Denver to Minneapolis because their leggings violated the company’s dress code policy for “pass travelers,” a company benefit that allows United employees and their dependents to travel for free on a standby basis.<br />They’re a staple, a go-to clothing item.”<br />Mr. Guerin said the company was aware of the criticism leveled at its social media team, but said they were “working as hard as they can.”<br />“We could have stopped to immediately ask the right questions,” he said.
