Dress Codes for airplane trips

mtsu_av8er said:
When I travel as a revenue passenger, I could care less if it's flip-flops, boonie hat, tennis shorts and a t-shirt. I'm the passenger. Take me to my destination, or I'll take my money to a competing airline.
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:yeahthat: (minus the boonie hat, hats look terrible on me)
 
Kestrel.....are you the one that has a face book profile pic that has you sitting in your dorm room wearing DCs, rayban aviators and a mop top hairstyle? And you're questioning others how they pesent themselves in public?BTW, when my work buys me tickets in business or better for a longhaul do you think I wear button up shirt and slacks or jeans a tshirt with scruff? If I'm going to enjoy a cold beer with my steak dinner you won't find me looking like a pilot.
 
Polar742 said:
Kestrel.....are you the one that has a face book profile pic that has you sitting in your dorm room wearing DCs, rayban aviators and a mop top hairstyle? And you're questioning others how they pesent themselves in public?BTW, when my work buys me tickets in business or better for a longhaul do you think I wear button up shirt and slacks or jeans a tshirt with scruff? If I'm going to enjoy a cold beer with my steak dinner you won't find me looking like a pilot.
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Awww, you guys are facebook friends?
 
Kestrel452 said:
Not necessarily. Many people will pay money to go on a flight where people come groomed and not grody. Rich people will pay to be on a plane with respectable looking folk rather than passengers who come without making themselves decent.
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Completely agreed,Kestrel. Unfortunately, those same people travel on NetJets, not LCC's. Modern airline management won't raise prices to bring themselves out of a huge debt, so I seriously doubt they'll be raising prices (and eliminating customers) to coerce a dress code anytime soon.

Pilots, airplanes, pork bellies and frozen concentrated orange juice are commodities subject to the laws of supply and demand. At the moment there is a major global pilot shortage going on...except in the United States where we have a current surplus. This will change over the next 5 years, but it exists at the moment. Concurrently the airlines also have too much capacity. This too will change, but at the moment there is too much supply and, especially with this economy, not enough demand. Not exactly the best time for an airline to be demanding better dressed passengers.
 
Honestly, I like it when people dress without any sort of fashion sense. Just like I like that the world is full of fat people. WHY???? Because it's that much less work for me to look better than them. I work out 3 times a week and I already look better than most of the fatsos in our society, score. I put on clothes that fit from a super high minded store like The Gap (lol). I already look better than most people in their XXL T-shirt they got for filling out a credit card form. Honestly, if most people dressed better I'd be priced out of looking better than they do. Sure if you talk to me I'll say "Look at those fatties with no self respect." Inside though I'll be going, "Thank God."

Seriously though. Airlines are like computers. When they first come out they're shiny and expensive, the people that buy/travel on them wear shoes made of endangered species and expensive suits. After a few years though Bubba in Lockjaw W. VA can buy a $300 netbook to look at pictures of big trucks and beer cans stuffed in a young woman's private area. If it really bothers you that much pony up the fee for NetJets.
 
Kestrel452 said:
Perhaps some people here cannot make the correlation between the status of the job known as piloting, and the behavior of the folks being flown. I would bet anyone dollars to donuts that one of the reasons being a pilot is not seen as high as it used to be is that airlines do not hold much of any dress or hygiene code. One undeniable trend in air travel is that the clientel of airlines has been gradually deteriorating. Maybe air travel wouldn't be seen by the public in such a negative fashion if the people they were traveling with were more respectable. It doesn't matter what the price is, its irrelevant. In fact, the cheaper the flight, the more right the airline has to impose rules. Maybe if people would control their children, come bathed and dressed somewhat formally, flying would be less bothersome to both pilots and passengers. And the prestige of flying an airliner would probably make at least a small comeback.

If people want to travel looking, acting, and smelling like a slob they should travel by car. If they want to travel via public transportation, I think some grooming and self-control should be in order, especially on a commercial flight.
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Look out Kestrel, your pretentious is showing.
 
I guess I'm one of the few that agrees with the OP. I always wear a blazer/sports coat when traveling. If I'm traveling on union business, I'm also in a tie.

But then again, I think people nowadays in general are far too casual. Whoever came up with the idea for those hideous "crocs" shoes should be dragged into the street and stoned until dead.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I guess I'm one of the few that agrees with the OP. I always wear a blazer/sports coat when traveling. If I'm traveling on union business, I'm also in a tie.
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I guess I'm in that minority as well. While I don't wear a coat anymore I don't feel it's too hard to put on a clean pair of jeans or slacks and a polo shirt. Frankly, I feel that if you look like a slob, people will assume you are a slob. Shower thongs, warmup pants, and an old t-shirt are not the image I want to present to the world, regardless of how the people around me are attired.
 
My checklist for flying on an airliner:

1.) Wear my monkey suit, so I can be one of the cool people in the airport.
2.) Make both of my pilot's aware that I am more then capable of helping in the case of an incapacitated pilot, in fact I have 500 hr. in type on FSX.
3.) Let every FA on the flight know I'm a ABP.
4.) Hit up every pax on the flight and let them know I'm a pilot.
5.) Arm-Chair QB the pilot on every phase of flight just loud enough so that all the pax 2 rows in front of you to 2 rows behind you can hear it.
6.) Comment about the landing to the pilot and make sure he knows that you could have done much better.
 
jhugz said:
My checklist for flying on an airliner:

1.) Wear my monkey suit, so I can be one of the cool people in the airport.
2.) Make both of my pilot's aware that I am more then capable of helping in the case of an incapacitated pilot, in fact I have 500 hr. in type on FSX.
3.) Let every FA on the flight know I'm a ABP.
4.) Hit up every pax on the flight and let them know I'm a pilot.
5.) Arm-Chair QB the pilot on every phase of flight just loud enough so that all the pax 2 rows in front of you to 2 rows behind you can hear it.
6.) Comment about the landing to the pilot and make sure he knows that you could have done much better.
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Here's a tip: if you punch a hole in your Sam's club card and hang it from a lanyard it looks just like an ID badge from a distance ;)
 
For all who complain that the dress simply isn't what it used to be, I as an avid cabin class non-rever, am going to start doing something about it. Will also work on acquiring job at Sam's club and obtain said badge for max aviation effect. We're takin' back the skies baby!


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Come to think of it, even when I bought tickets for my girlfriend and I on Sun Country a few months ago, I dressed up for it and told her to go business casual. Habit I guess.
 
I will add though I have to laugh at some of these posts about people dressing up in first class. First class on domestic flights is usually full of honey-mooners who fly once a year and think domestic first class is something amazing and show up t-shirts, flip-flops and hunting hats. And as for the frequent fliers, some of the guys I've seen with the most mileage dress like farmers in the field. I guess when you're THAT rich you don't really care how the world sees you, you dress how you want.
 
When I fly, I always dress nicely. I guess it gives me a better chance of getting that hot girls number across the aisle. And I have to wear what United tells me to...
 
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