Regardless of what one may choose to wear inflight, I've always found the contrast intriguing between how nicely the premium airlines present their airport staff and flight attendants, their premium class lounges and their onboard product as opposed to a significant percentage of passengers that - under the guise of dressing for comfort or just allowing their inner id to be on full display - often look like they'd be right at home at a trailer park BBQ in rural Mississippi. Or a NASCAR race on a cold day.
I think it'd be interesting if not downright entertaining to see how well it would be received if the airlines responded in kind with employees dressed like the aforementioned "Walmartians", lounges set up more like a frat house break room ("
There's a keg and some chips in the corner, Dude. Help yourself!") and
Green Tortoise style accommodations aboard their aircraft.
The price of the ticket's got nothing to do with it. All of youse can afford it one way or the other. At the end of the day it's a simple case of transporting a bunch of people safely and comfortably from point A to B. Why not do so in a style more in keeping with what the passenger's attire strongly suggests they'd be more comfortable with?
