Originally Posted by
mikeef
As long as your feet are covered and you don't smell, please dress comfortably.
^^^
In terms of the feet covered thing, in my opinion flying is one of the few times the combination of socks and sandals is A-OK... although I will usually just wear sneakers rather than adding socks to my usual sport sandals.
My typical flight is a long haul in coach - my
short flights are SFO-JFK. I'm gonna go for comfort - anything longer than that, I need something I can sleep in - and for something which doesn't look
awful when I get there despite as likely as not having not one but two meals on the way.
As for appearances, well, I'm short, fat, dress at the casual end of business casual (in mostly non-name-brand clothes), and I always get treated well. I also make sure to be clean, not smell, and treat the folks working the flight with respect. My guess is that that has a great deal more to do with the quality of the treatment I get than anyone else's suit.
Originally Posted by
Rebelyell
Please also dress so that your naked flesh does not touch my body.
A good idea, although I'd personally make an exception for attractive women
And cover any hairy parts of the body save for the head.
Weather-appropriate short pants on other guys don't bother me, and I've got hairy enough arms that I might need to take exception to that comment: I don't wear long sleeve shirts except in rare cases of dressing up - although when it's cold enough I'll wear a jacket (not the formal kind, but the poly or microfiber outerwear kind.)
It's rarely that cold on airplanes.