DOT says: Dress up if you fly. Flyers say: Airways do higher first.

• The Department of Transportation launched a brand new marketing campaign to advertise civility amongst air vacationers.
• The marketing campaign encourages passengers to be courteous, costume appropriately, and thoughts their manners.
• Some vacationers consider airways contribute to incivility by treating passengers poorly.

“The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You” marketing campaign is encouraging individuals to be extra courteous within the air. It’s additionally exhorting vacationers to decorate appropriately, to thoughts their youngsters and their manners.

When the Department of Transportation introduced a brand new marketing campaign on Wednesday, Nov. 19 to encourage vacationers to be extra civil after they fly, it inevitably obtained individuals speaking.

USA TODAY heard from many readers, who had been just about all in settlement with the marketing campaign’s objectives, but in addition stated passengers alone aren’t accountable for the present complications in air journey.

“I agree that civility needs to be restored when flying. However, the airlines make that challenging by treating people like cattle, cramming them into ever decreasing seat space so that knees are hitting the seat back in front and shoulders are squished against total strangers,” Mike Strauss, from Norman, Oklahoma, advised USA TODAY in an e-mail. “Unfortunately, when the airlines treat people like animals, it encourages people to act like animals.”

Some additionally felt that the Trump administration is not greatest positioned to advise on manners.

Still, Lisa Mirza Grotts, an authorized etiquette knowledgeable and writer of “A Traveler’s Passport to Etiquette,” agreed that the objectives of the DOT marketing campaign are sound.

“This is what I advocate. It’s so interesting to me that they’re asking us to be civil,” she stated. “I think it’s important when you travel, to travel light. Not just your bags, but your expectations. Just go with the flow … That’s when the kindness and the character and your in-flight conduct matter more than ever.”

Grotts stated she does not essentially assume individuals have to put on fits and ties or attire and pearls to fly anymore, however she even agreed with the DOT’s steerage about dressing the half.

Here are a few of her key ideas for tips on how to costume if you journey:

• Wear layers: you by no means know what the temperature on the aircraft will probably be.
• Keep your footwear on: nobody needs to see your naked ft.
• Dress respectfully: “The friendly skies, if you will, reward those who rise to that occasion,” she stated.

“I think comfort is key. You always dress in layers on an airplane, but I am not ever slovenly. Comfort and dignity can coexist,” she stated. “Pajamas, bare feet, those are great at home watching a Hallmark movie, but not 30,000 feet in the air.”

Zach Wichter is a journey reporter and writes the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY. He is predicated in New York and you may attain him at zwichter@usatoday.com.