Airline confronts passenger over cleavage

A US airline has been forced to apologise after a staff member told a female passenger she would not be able to board a flight because her dress revealed too much cleavage. The passenger, identified only as Avita, told news website Jezebel that she was instructed to button up her flannel shirt because her low-cut dress was "inappropriate". Despite being told by a Southwest Airlines representative that she would not be allowed to board, Avita went onto the plane anyway. "I didn't want to let the representative's big feelings about my breasts change the way I intended to board my flight," she said. "And lo and behold, the plane didn't fall out of the sky...my cleavage did not interfere with the plane's ability to function properly." Avita said her outfit was no less appropriate than a fellow passenger was wearing a shirt with an actual condom embedded into it. Southwest has apologised and offered Avita a refund for the cost of the Las Vegas to New York ticket.