Airlines and tattoos

blee256

blee256

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Quick question on views of airlines and tattoos. I've got a tattoo on my right arm. Its high on the arm easily covered by a t-shirt. I've heard some say that airlines dont like people with tattoo, hidden or not. I think someone explain it to me as they see at as defiance or something like that. is there any truth to this? and how would they know if mine is covered? its not like I would walk into an interview in a tank top!

-Brian
 
I've got one of those Mike Tyson-style face tatoos. It's pretty dope! Probably won't be getting the job at Delta though...

Seriously though, I can't imagine that if its covered up by a t-shirt or your uniform that it would be a problem (I don't know for sure though). That would be really lame if it was... Good luck, and thats a good idea about not wearing the wife-beater to your interview (for multiple reasons).
 
As long as it's in a place where it would be covered by a short-sleeved uniform shirt, it's not an issue.

(Well, it may not show a very good image if it's profanity, porno, or violent......but chances are the only person to see it at your interview is going to be the person who does your medical.)

At our FA interviews (in the medical) we had to show we had no tattoos that would be visible in a uniform. I don't think pilots have to do that.
 
Only because AMR is still stuck in the dark ages where they do their own medical.

Come on, first class is good enough for pilots. Do FAs at other airlines even get physicals?
 
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I'm pretty sure medicals are SOP for getting hired at every airline. FA 'medicals' are not even as indepth as a 3rd class medical. They take your medical history, blood pressure, they do a vision test, hearing test, and a ear test where they test something with the effects of pressurization on your ears. They look you over for tatoos, and take a blood sample. They also do DOT and company drug screenings.

Though AMR is the only company I know of with their own company-owned medical department.
 
MQAA,

That's more in-depth than my last 1st class medical. All they did was a vision, listened to my heart, breathing, checked BP, tested hearing by talking to me
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and pee in a cup to test for diabetes. Of course, I've been to this doc before, but for a 3rd class and nothing major changed. BTW, I'm 31...probably more in depth if I was older.
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I'm pretty sure medicals are SOP for getting hired at every airline. FA 'medicals' are not even as indepth as a 3rd class medical. They take your medical history, blood pressure, they do a vision test, hearing test, and a ear test where they test something with the effects of pressurization on your ears. They look you over for tatoos, and take a blood sample. They also do DOT and company drug screenings.

Though AMR is the only company I know of with their own company-owned medical department.

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I went theough the same exact test plus a strength test for a ramp position with American. Do they send everybody to Fort Worth to get that done or can they have it done at different places?
 
AA has a medical department in every hub city. So you may go to the closest hub city (ie LAX, DFW, ORD, LGA, BOS, MIA) or you may go to the Mother Ship in DFW. It probably depends on how busy the medical departments are. They may contract it out to outside medical facilities sometimes, but I don't think it happens very often.

Our random DOT drug screenings were done at the hub medical offices. (Well, the samples were taken and recorded at the hub medical facilites, the actual processing was done by a lab in Kansas City.)
 
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