Many (if not most) travelers tend to prioritize comfort over style when they’re flying. That includes plenty of people who will happily wear pajamas in public before boarding a plane, and Tampa International Airport managed to trigger some of them after proposing a ban on that particular type of attire.
There was once a time when flying on an airplane was a fairly luxurious experience for every single passenger who bought a ticket, and there are a ton of pictures of flights from the early days of commercial air travel featuring a cabin that’s almost exclusively filled with people wearing suits and dresses.
Things have changed a bit since the era when a good chunk of those flyers were also smoking multiple cigarettes over the course of a flight. It’s not necessarily rare to cross paths with someone who’s sharply dressed on a plane, but they tend to be an exception as opposed to the norm…