Two women on a girls’ trip allege they were removed from a Spirit Airlines flight for wearing crop tops.
The incident reportedly took place when Tara Kehidi and her friend, Teresa Araujo, were traveling from Los Angeles to New Orleans on Friday, Oct. 4, to celebrate Kehidi’s 30th birthday.
Kehidi shared with KABC-TV that they boarded the flight wearing sweaters but decided to take them off due to the lack of air conditioning.
After removing their sweaters and revealing their crop tops, she claims a male flight attendant approached them and instructed them to “put something on.”
Video from the flight, shared by Araujo and now going viral, shows one of the women in a white crop top, ripped jeans, and a green cardigan draped over her lap as the flight crew approached them.
The second clip in Araujo’s Instagram carousel features another woman with a child, who claimed she was also being removed from the plane for wearing a crop top.
“They’re going to remove us from the plane? Me and my baby?” the woman, identified by KABC-TV as Carla Hager, asked. Hager was sitting in front of Araujo and Kehidi, but did not know them.
“I said ‘well, if your body is inappropriate, then so is mine because I also have a crop top under my sweater,’ ” Hager said.
“And I took my sweater off and I was like ‘so if they’re kicking you off the flight, then they’re also going to have to kick me and my toddler off of the flight.”
Araujo labeled the flight attendant as “sexist and rude” in the caption and claimed that a supervisor threatened them with police intervention if they didn’t “leave the flight.”
The women mentioned to KABC-TV that they were not refunded. Kehidi and Araujo opted for a $1,000 Delta flight to New Orleans.
They also stated that they proposed putting their sweaters back on, but a flight attendant reportedly declined, stating it was too late.
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