Southwest has a new look (pilots)

And here I thought it was going to be this one:

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Just kidding guys!!!
 
mikecweb said:
Congrats @ATN_Pilot It'll look good when you're driving to work in the new Caddy.
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Dear God, that thing is hideous. And no, you won't see me wearing it. Wearing my original AirTran tie until the day I hang up flying. Many AirTran pilots are planning on wearing a plain blue tie their entire careers as a form of "protest." A lot of the original Morris guys still wear a plain black tie for the same reasons.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Dear God, that thing is hideous. And no, you won't see me wearing it. Wearing my original AirTran tie until the day I hang up flying.
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YOU WILL WEAR THE FLAIR, AND YOU WILL LUV IT!!

But seriously tho, ties are -- in my opinion -- supposed to be subdued and conservative; dress like you're going to meet your date's scary father/mother. That's what people want in a pilot. Hell, they should be issuing special cans of Ronco hair spray that puts a little salt and pepper on the sides.

This monstrosity … why don't they just also mandate clown shoes to go with the colorful and zany tie that's bucking boundaries but still technically keeping within the rules because that's what we're all about at Southwest why not? Beucase it would go well with their clown cars.
 
Minuteman said:
YOU WILL WEAR THE FLAIR, AND YOU WILL LUV IT!!

But seriously tho, ties are -- in my opinion -- supposed to be subdued and conservative; dress like you're going to meet your date's scary father/mother. That's what people want in a pilot. Hell, they should be issuing special cans of Ronco hair spray that puts a little salt and pepper on the sides.

This monstrosity … why don't they just also mandate clown shoes to go with the colorful and zany tie that's bucking boundaries but still technically keeping within the rules because that's what we're all about at Southwest why not? Beucase it would go well with their clown cars.
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I can't possibly like this post enough. We need a "love" button. And no, I don't mean "LUV," jackasses.
 
[quote="Minuteman, post: 2248132, member: 1191"But seriously tho, ties are -- in my opinion -- supposed to be subdued and conservative; dress like you're going to meet your date's scary father/mother. That's what people want in a pilot.[/quote]

I just want my pilots to be safe and efficient. I could care less what they wear.
 
Hideous. Who thought it would be a good idea to let a sixth grader design these things? Reminds me of a newly-built house in my neighborhood growing up. The idiot parents let their children decide what color the house should be. Anyways, they ended up with a "school-bus" yellow house, with a purple chimney. I'm not even joking.
 
hook_dupin said:
[quote="Minuteman, post: 2248132, member: 1191"But seriously tho, ties are -- in my opinion -- supposed to be subdued and conservative; dress like you're going to meet your date's scary father/mother. That's what people want in a pilot.
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I just want my pilots to be safe and efficient. I could care less what they wear.[/quote]

Pilots should care how pilots look in public because it directly impacts how we are perceived as professionals. If we dress ourselves like idiots it undoubtedly impacts that perception both in the eyes of the public and how we view our own self worth. Worse yet, if we let our employers, managers, etc dress us up to look like idiots it's a very clear statement of how they view us. You can say all you want that it doesn't matter and that I'd "wear a T shirt if my employer did XYZ" but you're kidding yourself. Our society has many stereotypes about how professionals dress. Right or wrong those expectations exist. Bankers and attorneys largely wear suits...or at the very least wear suits when in important publicly viewed events. Judges wear robes. Physicians wear lab coats. The list goes on. Pilots wearing stupid ties is like having Hawaiian Shirt Fridays as your standard dress code. Who is going to take you seriously? Certainly not me.

If you want to wear stupid ties and dress like a slob, please don't start a conversation with me about long term degradation of Captain's authority or the pay checks of yesteryear. I'm not naive enough to believe that it's not all related. If you want to be treated like a professional you better look like one in addition to acting like one because like it or not people have largely already made up their mind about your professionalism long before they've boarded your flight. They've already seen you in the gate area.
 
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