Boo united. And for shame.
While standing to board Red's flight we were approached by a young lady in tears who apologized for asking this bizarre request: can I borrow your shoes just to walk through the check in gate?
Ummm...????
Ever the skeptic, I allow her time to explain - she begins to cry saying that by wont let her cross the boarding check because she's flying standby and wearing flip flops. Note - flip flops are ok for non-standby passengers, but not for her? Red comes through as the hero and agrees to shoe swap until they're past the gate and then everything is fine but... WTF? Isn't it better for United's image to *not* have a young lady sobbing at their gate because she got denied her flight based on wearing flip flops rather than risk *THE HORROR* of a stand by passenger pass through the boarding pass scan area wearing flip flops!? Absurd. The ticket agents showed no sort of compassion for her either. AND on United's website I couldn't find anything about a dress code. When I used their "ask alex" feature on their website to ask "is there a dress code?" the answer was that they DON'T have a dress code except to dress comfortably...