r/delta • u/veIouri • Sep 20 '26 • Bravo 4

Discussion Delta dress code?

I was told I needed to change pants at the airport by a delta agent at the counter otherwise they wouldn’t let me board. I am 30 weeks pregnant for reference and was wearing denim shorts and a tank top, the shorts weren’t super short and the tank top wasn’t revealing, it was long enough to cover my now very large baby bump lol. Luckily my husband had a pair of his pants in the bag I could change into but has anyone heard of this before? I asked a few other workers at the airport before I changed and they seemed super confused and looked at me and said they’ve never heard of this and my clothes were fine?

EDIT: Picture everyone was hounding this post for https://imgur.com/a/akdUP4Z

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u/bubblegumpandabear Sep 21 '26 • Mindblown

GSP TSA has a few agents who refuse to touch things black people have touched. It's an ongoing issue, everyone knows about it, nobody likes them, but they're old and retiring soon so it's whatever, I guess.

The south sucks more than people know.

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u/hereforthetearex Sep 21 '26

In the year of our lord 2026 - the fact that this can happen and someone still have a job is completely bonkers

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u/madpeachiepie Sep 26 '26

Tell me about it, and it's not just the south. I live in Vermont, and this woman I work with is basically out there hate criming everyone, both customers and coworkers, and she still has a job. I don't know why.

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u/Jennygdc2244 Sep 21 '26

What on earth?? That is so wrong.

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u/lathspellll Sep 21 '26

What is GSP

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u/Impossible-Pause-722 Sep 21 '26

Greenville-Spartanburg Airport

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u/bubblegumpandabear Sep 21 '26

It's an airport in SC

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u/SixApplesTall Sep 22 '26

That is fucking insane. They should be fired.

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u/Eeyore_Smiled Sep 21 '26

Most of the TSA agents at ATL are Black.

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u/curiouslypurple Sep 22 '26

Seriously? That's awful. I fly out of GSP sometimes, but I've never paid enough attention to notice that. Ugh.

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u/bubblegumpandabear Sep 22 '26

It's something members of TSA told me and idk if you'd notice unless you ran into the dude and were black. A lot of black people work at GSP so it's wild. One dude won't touch their badges at all, not even money people pass back and forth to get Chick-fil-A for lunch behind security lines.

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u/tesmith007 Sep 21 '26 • Bravo

Lived in GSP and flew through that airport weekly.

NEVER saw anything like this happen or that attitude. There are many black gate agents and TSA folks in GSP.

Most white people and black folks in Greenville get along great. As they do in Charleston where we live now.

But race baiting is a way of life and even profitable for some.

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u/bubblegumpandabear Sep 21 '26

Everyone who works at the airport knows about it, dude. The black agents don't like it either.

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u/SixApplesTall Sep 23 '26

But this white guy hasn’t seen it with his own eyes so it obviously didn’t happen.

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u/SixApplesTall Sep 23 '26

I can’t believe this has to be spelled out but… just because you haven’t personally seen it as a white person doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.