It’s great to start your trip early, but not like this. It could end your Hawaii vacation before it ever starts.
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It’s great to start your trip early, but not like this. It could end your Hawaii vacation before it ever starts.
A certain incident concerning proper attire. My son was returning to Honolulu for summer break from college. I’d always preached to him about dressing properly when flying. We got to the airport and the PDX station manager for Hawaiian said that he wanted to upgrade my son to first class for free. But, he explained my son was wearing a tee shirt and the dress code for men he had to wear a collared shirt. Kind gesture but my son learned a valuable lesson. This was back in the early 2000s.
While I agree that idiots who dress stupidly deserve the fate they make, let’s also take a moment to remember the role airlines have played in making the travel experience what it is today – a cut rate, no frills experience for the majority of their passengers.
Dressing up (or even dressing nicely) when you are crammed into a far too small seat with no room for your legs simply isn’t going to happen. One has to dress for the maximum amount of comfort one can find in such a small space for 5 or more hours. So yes, I will dress in cargo shorts, a decent and clean (both grammatically and fragrantly) shirt and tennis shoes to make my time in the chair of woe a bit more endurable.
While flying to Hawai’i should be a memorable experience, those passengers who chose to dress inappropriately should in fact be asked to change or exit the aircraft. You would no more go into a staff meeting, seen by a couple hundred people, in a tank top or flip flops or “daisy dukes” and the same should apply to flying to the paradise islands of Hawai’i. Save that clothing for when you land.
I totally agree with the dress codes of all airlines, and as a frequent traveler, I do in fact adhere to them.
Your common sense rules apply here.
Disneyland also has dress codes and my friend got stopped for her shorts being 2 short!
I wear Flip Flops because my feet swell. I think a lot of people only wear flip flops in Hawaii
Uh … no, please don’t stereotype. Most people in Hawaii wear shoes or appropriate foot wear when traveling, going to work, attending social events, etc. Suggest you check out why your feet swell with your doctor.
Not sure why you’re against flip flops on a flight to Hawaii…many of us who live in Hawaii wear only ‘slippahs’, currently the only other kind of foorwear I own are hiking sandals (too much velcro for TSA), cowboy boots in storage and golf shoes with built in spikeless nubs that I sure won’t wear down other than on a course!
I’m born and raised here and and disagree that “many of us who live in Hawaii wear only ‘slippahs’ …” what would you do if you had to go to an office for business, or to a nice restaurant with your significant other … oh, wait! Of course! You can use your hiking sandals, cowboy boots or golf shoes with built in spikeless nubs!! Right on!!
Well, to a nice restaurant, I wear my nicer slippahs, of course, as would my hub! I worked in an office (casual dress), and we all office sfaff wore slippahs/sandals. Our owner wore khaki shorts. I would have said that maybe it’s a difference of me living on the Big Island, but then I lived in Waikiki for years as well…and although I bought a pair of sneakers for hiking, my feet had flattened from years of wearing only slippahs and no longer felt good enclosed. I also don’t care much about fashion or clothes…and feel completely at home with everyone else around me basicically living the same way-comfortable in shorts, tshirts and slippahs…this is also true in line at the airport, especially for interisland travel. Aloha!
I’m showing my age, but I remember flying to Maui in 1968. The men all wore slacks, and the women all wore dresses. The head and neck support had clean removable white covers, and everyone was offered a CLEAN pillow, and a CLEAN blanket. It was truly a wonderful experience, unlike today. If you can find a pillow or blanket these days, chances are it’s made several trips on that plane. It’s a shame how far we have digressed in all facets of airline travel.
On our 1968 trip (our honeymoon), the Pan Am flight out of SF even held the plane for us, because of a traffic accident near the airport. Then, when we got on board, they gave us a small wedding cake; a bottle of champagne, and a round of applause. Can you imagine that happening today?
We dress nice casual on the plane, but have noticed the decline in travel attire. While I think it’s a shame people think it’s ok to travel in the same clothes they wear to mow the lawn, I guess it’s better than traveling in sports bras & clothing with offensive language. I hope the airlines continue to enforce what appears to be minimal at best dress standards. It won’t be my family booted off the plane. But I sure will be ticked if my flight is delayed or canceled because some yahoo wants to go barefoot & wear a swim suit on the plane.
I am personally not someone (nor is anyone in my family or people I’ve traveled with) who would wear skimpy attire on an airplane — not just for style reasons but also those planes get cold and I usually have a layer or two ready to go even on flights to Hawaii!
However, I have observed that there is a definite double standard to how airlines choose to apply these in-most-cases-ambiguous-and-not-well-communicated dress code rules. Enforcement is almost always targeted to women and not men. I’ve been on flights more than once where a male was wearing some sort of muscle tank top with large armhole cutouts and deep chest cutouts and no note was taken. Just sayin’. And honestly, how other people dress is really not my business 🙂
Please make sure if you have children that it is your business that they dress well. it is the Non raising of children properly that they have not learned to be respectful and honorable of others in all arenas.
You are correct – it has gotten so bad in the last 20 years. I remember being appalled when we boarded a flight from Hawaii to Minneapolis in 1998, and there were passengers in pajamas!
I usually have the opposite problem on planes: they’re often too cold. I miss the days when the airlines handed out blankets! I do admit to sometimes slipping out of my shoes on long flights. I would certainly rather not be subjected to offensive messages on the shirts of fellow travelers, though what is “offensive” can be a matter of opinion.
If you know anything about TicTac’ers or Instagram’ers the likely hood that the two girls in the article had no idea that their outfits weren’t appropriate for travel is a joke.
Their whole lives revolve around the ability to get reactions, so that they can post their personal reality show on Twitter, TicTac or Instagram.
BOH great article to get the old folks fired up, but my guess is that the likely hood of any poster on BOH getting throw off a plane for clothing violation is zero.
Hi Richard.
Lol. You’re probably right. I think that’s a good thing.
Aloha.
You’re right: “Their whole lives revolve around the ability to get reactions, so that they can post their personal reality show on Twitter, TicTac or Instagram.
Yep, “BOH great article to get the old folks fired up” I am one of those old people. And I never wanted to say I was or am old. But, I am so glad that I was brought up with respect, honor, and education about other cultures. I do not like the way that people act anymore and the comfort level that airlines, and all businesses including police force that allow disrespect. I think the airlines have done a great job trying to maintain their rules. I wish all businesses would stop worrying about offending otghers and enact and make consequences for those that cant follow rules.
First of all, anyone who goes to an airport full of people to get on a plane full of people–dressed like (that)–is clearly a complete narcissist to begin with… and I’m all for banning these types of dimwits from all public transportation–and just about any other public area as well. Second, I wish they’d ban the yoga pants as well…. that’s a camel-toe trend we could all do without in public. So foul. And, again, so narcissistic.
Um, BOH I love you but the language in this comment is fairly appalling and definitely sexist. A woman wears a top that shows some cleavage and is therefore fair game to be called a stripper/hooker and ‘foul’?
Sounds a lot like the missionaries who made the wahine hula dancers cover themselves head to toe because they were ‘immoral’ if you ask me
Hi Carolyn.
Thanks for pointing that out. The comment you referred to has been edited.
Aloha.
Speaking of yoga pants, they should just not be worn, by anyone. I am a woman. In the gym, possibly, but not even to the grocery store. I saw a woman, a heavy woman in tan yoga pants and it took me a second to decide that she was wearing pants at all because of the color, matched her skin tone, and just, no. Maybe we could take a little pride in how we look when we step on an airplane. Or go anywhere for that matter.