Passengers Wearing Crop Tops Claim 'Sexist' Flight Attendant Kicked Them Off Spirit Airlines Plane

Mar. 15, 2025

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Two women on a girls' trip claim they were kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight because they were wearing crop tops.

The incident allegedly occurred when Tara Kehidi traveled with her friend, Teresa Araujo, from Los Angeles to New Orleans on Friday, Oct. 4, to celebrate Kehidi’s 30th birthday.

When they took off their sweaters, revealing their crop tops, she claims a male flight attendant approached them and told them to “put something on.”

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The second video in Araujo’s Instagram Carousel was of a woman with a child that said she was also being removed from the plane for wearing a crop top.

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Araujo called the flight attendant “sexist and rude” in the caption and alleged that a supervisor told them to “leave the flight or she would bring the police.”

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Thecontract of carriagestates that a person may “not be permitted to board the aircraft or may be required to leave an aircraft” if they are “barefoot or inadequately clothed, or whose clothing is lewd, obscene, or offensive in nature.”

PEOPLE reached out to Spirit Airlines for comment but did not immediately hear back.

source: people.com