US Woman Claims She Was 'Scolded' By Flight Official For Not Wearing A Bra

Los Angeles:

A female who says she was threatened pinch being kicked disconnected a US Delta Air Lines formation because she was not wearing a bra demanded a gathering pinch nan company's apical leader connected Thursday complete what she says is simply a discriminatory policy.

Lisa Archbold said she had connected baggy jeans and a loose achromatic t-shirt -- pinch nary bra -- and claimed she was temporarily escorted disconnected a formation by a female gross supplier who demanded she screen up, moreover though her breasts were not visible.  

"It felt for illustration a scarlet missive was being attached to me," Archbold, 38, told reporters successful Los Angeles astir nan January incident.

"I felt it was a spectacle aimed astatine punishing maine for not being a female successful nan measurement she thought I should beryllium a female arsenic she scolded maine extracurricular of nan plane."

Archbold, a DJ who was flying from Salt Lake City successful blimpish Utah to nan famously wide San Francisco, claims nan Delta supplier said her attire was "revealing" and "offensive" and that hose argumentation was not to let passengers dressed that measurement to travel.

But, nan supplier said, if she put a overgarment complete her t-shirt, she would beryllium allowed to proceed her journey.

Attorney Gloria Allred said she had written to Delta connected behalf of Archbold demanding a gathering pinch nan company's president to talk nan discriminatory policy.

"Male passengers are not required to screen up their t-shirts pinch a garment aliases a jacket," she said.

"They besides do not person to deterioration a bra to committee aliases stay connected a level and women should not person to deterioration 1 either.

"Last I checked, nan Taliban are not successful complaint of Delta."

Allred said US national rules let airlines to region passengers who coming a information aliases information consequence to nan level aliases its passengers, but that was intelligibly not nan lawsuit pinch Archbold.

"Neither her breasts nor immoderate different woman's breasts person ever tried to return complete a plane," she said.

"Breasts are not weapons of war, and it's not a crime for a female aliases woman to person them."

Allred said location were presently nary plans for a suit and that each she and Archbold wanted was a gathering pinch Delta's president to unafraid assurances their policies would beryllium updated.

In consequence to AFP inquiries, a spokesperson for nan institution said: "Earlier this year, Delta representatives contacted this customer pinch an apology."

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