Inappropriate?

Sometimes I wish the airline crew environment was more like that of military workplaces. Specifically in regards to public displays of affection.

But, it's not. So - not inappropriate. However as much as I would like to say it is.
 
SeanD said:
I used to see this all the time in ORD. No biggie for me. I think its kinda cool actually.
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Yeah airline pilots are people too and as such have emotions and relationships and stuff. If anything pax should get a warm fuzzy because they know their pilot is motivated to make it home safe!
 
mshunter said:
When was the last time you got paid to preflight/post flight, program an FMS, etc. If you are in a company uniform, you represent the company.
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What does your employee handbook say about conduct in the terminal? Does it address this issue?

All I remember is that you cannot wear the vest without the jacket outside the cockpit, and that you have to get the blazer even if you get the leather coat because the other side of the house had 1 day a year as blazer. That discussion wasted almost an entire day of INDOC.
 
Commenting on a shirt being untucked or wrinkled is one thing, but a guy giving his wife a kiss before they part ways on their specific flights?

Seriously. Who cares? Like others have said, making out is one thing but a quick kiss isn't worth the bandwidth for an entire thread.

@tonyw said in one of the other multitudes of threads complaining about a pilots personal appearance, that he doesn't even notice pilots or their wardrobe when he's traveling as a passenger because he's too worried about catching his connecting flight. So I doubt any of the other passengers would notice two pilots parting ways with a kiss.

I just don't get these types of threads. You see a pilot doing something that you don't like in the terminal (wearing ear buds, no hat, hat without a coat, unshined shoes, wrinkled shirt, pants so reflective from ironing that you can see your own reflection in them, PDA, etc) so instead of going to that person directly and informing them that their appearance/actions/whatever aren't up to your standards, you go to the internet and create a thread to moan about how you saw a pilot for XYZ doing whatever. I got news for ya. It ain't going to change a damned thing. Pilots are still going to carry backpacks, still going to have earbuds in, still going to wear north face jackets, still going to not iron their shirt on a 30 hr overnight. So what's the point then?

I can't help but think that are these threads a way to make one feel better about themselves by saying "WELL. I saw guy/girl do THIS so what I'm doing must be okay."

I was a member of this forum for about 8 years or something crazy like that before I got hired at an airline. I had this thought in my head about what pilots looked like and how they were supposed to act in the terminal. My head just about exploded the first time I saw a pilot walking through the terminal talking on his phone through his earbuds. Then I saw a guy with a backpack. Then I saw a guy with an untucked wrinkly yellow shaded white shirt. Based on the forums, I thought these guys would have been banished by their peers for their crimes against humanity. But no. They exist. And they will continue to exist until you have the uniform police from management checking for compliance in the hub every day of the week. So again, what's the point?
 
N519AT said:
Commenting on a shirt being untucked or wrinkled is one thing, but a guy giving his wife a kiss before they part ways on their specific flights?

Seriously. Who cares? Like others have said, making out is one thing but a quick kiss isn't worth the bandwidth for an entire thread.

@tonyw said in one of the other multitudes of threads complaining about a pilots personal appearance, that he doesn't even notice pilots or their wardrobe when he's traveling as a passenger because he's too worried about catching his connecting flight. So I doubt any of the other passengers would notice two pilots parting ways with a kiss.

I just don't get these types of threads. You see a pilot doing something that you don't like in the terminal (wearing ear buds, no hat, hat without a coat, unshined shoes, wrinkled shirt, pants so reflective from ironing that you can see your own reflection in them, PDA, etc) so instead of going to that person directly and informing them that their appearance/actions/whatever aren't up to your standards, you go to the internet and create a thread to moan about how you saw a pilot for XYZ doing whatever. I got news for ya. It ain't going to change a damned thing. Pilots are still going to carry backpacks, still going to have earbuds in, still going to wear north face jackets, still going to not iron their shirt on a 30 hr overnight. So what's the point then?

I can't help but think that are these threads a way to make one feel better about themselves by saying "WELL. I saw guy/girl do THIS so what I'm doing must be okay."

I was a member of this forum for about 8 years or something crazy like that before I got hired at an airline. I had this thought in my head about what pilots looked like and how they were supposed to act in the terminal. My head just about exploded the first time I saw a pilot walking through the terminal talking on his phone through his earbuds. Then I saw a guy with a backpack. Then I saw a guy with an untucked wrinkly yellow shaded white shirt. Based on the forums, I thought these guys would have been banished by their peers for their crimes against humanity. But no. They exist. And they will continue to exist until you have the uniform police from management checking for compliance in the hub every day of the week. So again, what's the point?
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A very small minority care about these things, but they bitch the most about it on the internet, really says something about them, and I hope to never find myself sharing a cockpit with any of those unpleasant a-holes.
 
Hug and kiss? No problem, especially if just on the cheek. Pilots are humans, not robots. Now holding hands walking around the terminal, making out etc is inappropriate in uniform.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
Most places limit that kind of thing in uniform, and I've always been hesitant to show PDA in uniform. But I've seen far more unprofessional stuff. A hug and quick kiss is just a greeting, really. Making out is another story...
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Agreed. I had kissed (my then) girlfriend at the pax drop off point in uniform before going to work. Sadly it wasn't as hot as I would have liked it to have been for everyone.
 
j4seymor said:
I crossed paths with my girlfriend at O'Hare this morning. Since we were both clad in the finest polyester uniforms adorned with twelve stripes in total atop our shoulders, I dared not give her more than a curt nod and continued walking. She's breaking up with me, but I am resting easy in the knowledge that the United mouthbreathers in the terminal shall find no fault with possible public displays of affection. After all, what relationship could possibly be more important than that of a co-pilot and a bunch of Travelocity-surfing strangers?
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You sir , win the internet...
 
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