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Times of India Verified account ‏@timesofindia 4h4 hours ago

Woman in short dress not allowed on #IndiGo flight http://toi.in/UpdPFb 

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29 October 2015

Indian airline blocks woman in short dress from flight

The dress code is only for employees and nominated family members, and doesn’t apply to ordinary travelers.

MUMBAI (AFP) – A female passenger was prevented from boarding a domestic flight in India because she was showing too much leg, the budget carrier IndiGo and newspaper reports said on Thursday (Oct 29).

The woman travelling from the western city of Mumbai to India’s capital New Delhi was not allowed to board Monday’s flight because her dress was too short, the Indian Express reported.

An official at IndiGo, who asked not to be named, told AFP that the dress had stopped above the knee, in violation of rules issued to employees and relatives of staff.

The woman was formerly employed by the airline and was travelling on a special ticket because her sister worked for the company, the official said.

“Employees and the nominated family members are required to maintain a specific dress code, as and when they fly with the airline under the staff leisure travel privileges,” read an IndiGo statement.

“Keeping in mind this policy, the Mumbai ground staff followed the protocol to brief this passenger on the dress code policy,” it added.

The Indian national changed her attire and was allowed onto a later flight, the official said, stressing that the dress code was not for ordinary customers.

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-airline-blocks-woman-in-short-dress-from-flight

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NDTV

New Delhi:  A woman passenger was allegedly stopped from taking an IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Delhi on Monday as the airline staff felt her clothes were not appropriate.

Wearing a frock, the woman had traveled from Doha on a Qatar Airways flight and was to take a connecting flight to Delhi. But after she landed in Mumbai, she was allegedly stopped from boarding the flight by IndiGo employees.

Another passenger, Purabi Das, has shared on Facebook what she calls a “disturbing instance of harassment of a young female passenger by three male IndiGo employees.”

“She was not permitted to board because she was wearing a knee-length frock which was considered inappropriate wear by an airlines that has frocks of the same length for its stewardesses’ uniforms! (sic)” Ms Das writes.

The woman missed her flight but was accommodated on another one after she reportedly changed into trousers.
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The woman’s sister is an IndiGo employee.

Ms Das said when she reported the incident to the airline’s customer care, they argued that rules do not allow employees travelling by the airlines to wear a frock.

“Moral policing or gender bias by Indigo? Hope India’s top private airlines is not going to send out this vibe on the occasion of its first IPO! (sic)” she wrote.

IndiGo has been quoted in reports as saying that it regrets that a passenger experienced “untoward behavior” at the Mumbai airport but citing guidelines that “employees and the nominated family members are required to maintain a specific dress code, as and when they fly with the airline under the staff leisure travel privileges.”

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/woman-in-short-dress-not-allowed-on-indigo-flight-report-1237686

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Indigo bars woman in short dress from boarding flight.

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