\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTampa International Airport said on social media Thursday that it wanted to ban people from wearing pajamas at the Florida facility. No, it wasn’t being serious.A post on the airport’s official X account said that after successfully going \u201cCrocs-free,\u201d Tampa International had \u201cseen enough\u201d of pajamas.\u201cThe madness stops today. The movement starts now,\u201d reads the post, which had been viewed 5.7 million times by mid-afternoon Eastern time and generated a debate about airport attire in the comments.Beau Zimmer, an airport spokesperson, told The Associated Press the post was part of the airport\u2019s longstanding social media persona \u2014 a tongue-in-cheek voice it has cultivated since its early days on Twitter, before the platform rebranded as X. The account has attracted a loyal global following, he said.\u201cOur regular social media followers just eat this stuff up,” Zimmer said. “But obviously this is all in fun, and we encourage our travelers to be comfortable.\u201dU.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reacted to the post with a GIF of actor John Krasinski from the TV show \u201cThe Office\u201d looking into the camera and saying, \u201cYes!\u201dDuffy has been encouraging passengers to dress more formally while flying, part of a civility campaign he launched last November \u2014 called \u201cthe Golden Age of Travel Starts with You.” The Transportation Department said the campaign was \u201cintended to jumpstart a nationwide conversation around how we can all restore courtesy and class to air travel.\u201dThe airport released a statement Thursday clarifying its post was intended as a joke.\u201cToday\u2019s post about \u2018banning\u2019 pajamas was another playful nod to day-of-travel fashion debates,” it said. “We encourage our passengers to travel comfortably and appreciate our loyal followers who enjoy the online humor.\u201dZimmer said the airport’s online personality has been around for at least a decade. In the earlier days of what was then Twitter, a young intern started posting light-hearted jokes, like poking fun at rival sports teams and fans, \u201cand it really took off.\u201dEarlier this month, the day after the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat the Boston Bruins 6-5 in an NHL Stadium Series game in Tampa, the airport shared on X: \u201cOh, and safe flight home to all the Bruins fans today :)\u201dLast month, alluding to an ongoing joke about passengers mixing up the airport’s code of TPA with TIA, an airport in Albania, the Tampa airport shared a New Year’s resolution \u201cto stress out less.\u201d\u201cUnfortunately,” the post continued, “some of y’all’s resolutions is to continue calling us TIA so we will not be meeting our goal.\u201dOne X user responded that Tampa airport should just change its code to \u201cGOAT so people don’t get confused,\u201d referring to the acronym for \u201cgreatest of all time.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Tampa International Airport said on social media Thursday that it wanted to ban people from wearing pajamas at the Florida facility. No, it wasn’t being serious.<\/p>\n
A post on the airport’s official X account said that after successfully going \u201cCrocs-free,\u201d Tampa International had \u201cseen enough\u201d of pajamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe madness stops today. The movement starts now,\u201d reads the post, which had been viewed 5.7 million times by mid-afternoon Eastern time and generated a debate about airport attire in the comments.<\/p>\n
Beau Zimmer, an airport spokesperson, told The Associated Press the post was part of the airport\u2019s longstanding social media persona \u2014 a tongue-in-cheek voice it has cultivated since its early days on Twitter, before the platform rebranded as X. The account has attracted a loyal global following, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur regular social media followers just eat this stuff up,” Zimmer said. “But obviously this is all in fun, and we encourage our travelers to be comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reacted to the post with a GIF of actor John Krasinski from the TV show \u201cThe Office\u201d looking into the camera and saying, \u201cYes!\u201d<\/p>\n
Duffy has been encouraging passengers to dress more formally while flying, part of a civility campaign he launched last November \u2014 called \u201cthe Golden Age of Travel Starts with You.” The Transportation Department said the campaign was \u201cintended to jumpstart a nationwide conversation around how we can all restore courtesy and class to air travel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The airport released a statement Thursday clarifying its post was intended as a joke.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s post about \u2018banning\u2019 pajamas was another playful nod to day-of-travel fashion debates,” it said. “We encourage our passengers to travel comfortably and appreciate our loyal followers who enjoy the online humor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zimmer said the airport’s online personality has been around for at least a decade. In the earlier days of what was then Twitter, a young intern started posting light-hearted jokes, like poking fun at rival sports teams and fans, \u201cand it really took off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the day after the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat the Boston Bruins 6-5 in an NHL Stadium Series game in Tampa, the airport shared on X: \u201cOh, and safe flight home to all the Bruins fans today :)\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, alluding to an ongoing joke about passengers mixing up the airport’s code of TPA with TIA, an airport in Albania, the Tampa airport shared a New Year’s resolution \u201cto stress out less.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately,” the post continued, “some of y’all’s resolutions is to continue calling us TIA so we will not be meeting our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
One X user responded that Tampa airport should just change its code to \u201cGOAT so people don’t get confused,\u201d referring to the acronym for \u201cgreatest of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa International Airport said on social media Thursday that it wanted to ban people from wearing pajamas at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81306,6731,81307,81308,81309,81310,3207,5683,81295,30462,81315,48473,81296,81297,81316,53629,9099,81314,81311,3574,15015,10258,23588,81298,135,81301,81317,81302,81300,137,3210,136,81303,2483,1316,81299,1798,81304,107,81312,5869,81313,81305],"class_list":["post-170980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-air-travel-etiquette","tag-airport","tag-airport-code-tpa-vs-tia","tag-airport-dress-code-debate","tag-airport-fashion-controversy","tag-airport-spokesperson-beau-zimmer","tag-beau-zimmer","tag-code","tag-crocs-free-airport","tag-debate","tag-early-day","tag-flying","tag-golden-age-of-travel-campaign","tag-john-krasinski-gif","tag-joke","tag-jsnd","tag-month","tag-pajama-ban","tag-pajama-ban-joke","tag-part","tag-passenger","tag-plane","tag-post","tag-sean-duffy-travel-civility","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-airport-humor","tag-tampa-airport-joke","tag-tampa-airport-pajamas","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-post","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-international-airport","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-office-reaction","tag-today","tag-tourism","tag-tpa-social-media","tag-transportation","tag-transportation-department-campaign","tag-travel","tag-travel-comfort-debate","tag-twitter","tag-viral-airport-tweet","tag-x-post-viral-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}