OK, here's airline "non-rev" pax rules: [View all]

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I'm a pilot. I flew for TWA for 30+ years.
Rules have surely changed some since then, but here's what we had in the 60s, 70, 80s.

Male pax wore coats and ties to ride in 1st class.
In coach a sport coat and no tie was acceptable.
Female wore dresses or skirts and blouses/sweaters (or skirt suits).

You have to understand that this was back in the day when
1. EVERYONE 'dressed up' to ride in an airplane. It was a major event.
2. EVERYONE 'dressed up' to go out at night. To dinner, a movie, a PTA meeting, whatever.
3. I wore a THREE PIECE SUIT to attend a college football game with a date.
In Alabama.

Eventually airline non-rev dress codes were relaxed.
Airlines wanted us to be incognito.
They did not want us sitting in 1st class next to some guy who had paid a thousand bucks for his ticket and us bragging we were flying for free.

We kept mum about who we worked for, but when we were the only ones in 1st class wearing a tie, it was a dead giveaway.
We dumped the coat and tie, and women could wear pants suits or slacks.

TWA still had a rule against jeans in 1st.
My daughter was wearing a denim skirt.
A (young new) cabin attendant told her she would have to deboard.
I was able to more or less 'pull rank' and 'reason' with her.

To make any judgement about the tights/leggings I'd really have to see photos.
I will say that United has always had very conservative approach to how they hire and their general operation.

We always thought United pilots were mostly tight-assed jerks.
But we were sorta party guys.