So picture this: Tanasia Grayer is all set to catch her flight, looking cute in her shorts, ready to travel. But what happens next? Spirit Airlines pulls the rug from under her feet and denies her boarding because of what she’s wearing!
Let’s get real here – it’s 2025, and we’re still policing women’s clothing choices? Tanasia wasn’t having it, and she made sure her voice was heard. She went after Spirit Airlines for their dress code policy and stood up for herself.
According to CBS Miami, Tanasia Grayer planned to board a Chicago-bound flight from Miami International Airport on Wednesday, July 16. When she arrived at the gate, she claims Spirit personnel told her she wasn’t allowed to board because of her outfit.
“We were getting ready to board the plane, and the lady at the front desk, she stopped me and said, ‘You’re not getting on a plane like that,’” Grayer told the outlet. “So I looked at her and I said ‘Like what?’ She said, ‘With those shorts.’”
Grayer alleges she walked through the airport without anyone telling her to change. Wearing a pink robe overtop, she says her clothes were not revealing at all.
“They said that you can’t have the bottom or your butt out,” she said. “That’s why this robe is on so that I’m not too revealing.”
She added: “I was in the airport for 40 minutes, y’all should’ve told me. That way I could’ve went and changed my clothes to put anything else on.”
In a clip of the confrontation with airport authorities shared with CBS Miami, a woman in the background can be heard shouting “I’m confused, this is crazy, this is insane.” Grayer said that was her sister, Jessica Kordelewski, who was arrested and accused of disorderly conduct and trespassing after a warning.
In a statement shared with PEOPLE, a spokesperson for Spirit said their records show “a guest was not in compliance with our Contract of Carriage and refused to comply when provided an opportunity to do so.” The statement says their Contact of Carriage contains certain clothing standards for all passengers.
“The guest and their travel companion were eventually denied boarding after displaying disruptive behavior,” the statement read.
“I’m going home,” Kordelewski told CBS Miami after she was released from jail.
“We are done with Miami, we ain’t never coming here again,” Grayer added.
According to Spirit’s Contract of Carriage, guests shall not be permitted on an aircraft and may be required to leave if they are “barefoot or inadequately clothed,” or if their clothing or body art is considered “lewd, obscene or offensive in nature.” Listed examples include see-through clothing exposing breasts, buttocks or other private parts.
Who knew shorts could cause such drama? But Tanasia didn’t just take it lightly since the incident got her sister in cuffs. She had to let everyone know what happened.
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