First, no, it's not that simple. In our culture professionals with high, even life or death, responsibilities are expected to act, dress and appear to a standard that looks like like the one you see.
Second, You need to learn the basics of union, for that any, negotiation--every perceived change to benefit one party can and will be cause for a "giveback". ALPA: "our crews want relaxed facial hair standards". Company: "you want beards, how about 3.5% hourly increase instead of 3.65%?" The two parties could spend a month of Sundays on that one.
GF