Cracking the Airlines’ Dress Code<br />“When someone is a little dressed up and looking like they made an effort, it’s almost like they’re showing respect for themselves<br />and for everybody else on the plane,” said Ms. Linder, of Los Angeles, who has maintained her career as a flight attendant while also appearing on the TV soap opera “The Young and the Restless.”<br />“My personal opinion is that when you take pride in how you look, you take pride in how you act,” she said.<br />“You know, people would have told you two decades ago<br />that it was a good idea to dress nicely on a plane, because you never know if the airline might take care of you, like maybe bump you up to business class or first class because you look nice,” he said.<br />“I will say that when I see someone come on the plane<br />and they’re dressed nicely and their children are dressed nicely, I do take notice,” said Kate Linder, an actress, and a United flight attendant since 1978.<br />United’s policy also covers passengers “not properly clothed,” and American’s warns<br />that the airline may refuse to transport passengers “clothed in a manner that would cause discomfort or offense to other passengers.”<br />Those extra words, according to Brian Sumers, a reporter at the travel industry website Skift, mean<br />that anyone who shows up in a T-shirt scrawled with profanity or a lewd message may be barred from a plane.
