Budget carrier IndiGo has got caught in a fracas of its own making, in the middle of its IPO. IndiGo offloaded a woman passenger for wearing a dress that has been just above knee length. The woman who dared to wear a dress above her knees was a former IndiGo employee and her sister is a current IndiGo employee.
The lady in question landed in Mumbai from Doha, Qatar and the staff at the airport in that Islamic nation had no problem with her dress. She finally had to change to trousers to take another IndiGo flight.
The reality is that IndiGo cabin crew dresses end above the knee. IndiGo’s efficient cabin attendants themselves wear classy Western attire with wigs, et al? They are hardly the representation of the quintessential ‘Bharatiya naari’.
IndiGo’s ad campaign is all about informing Indians that “everyone knows IndiGo flies on time, but now we should know that there’s a lot more to IndiGo that makes us who we are.†Thanks to IndiGo’s staffers in Mumbai, we came to know that it includes a hypocritical dress code for women who may be travelling on a staff ticket, in IndiGo uniform you can wear a dress that’s above knee length, but otherwise as a woman you may have to wear shorts.
By Premji
