Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
Don't care about the beard issue myself, but that attitude really holds us back. Personally, I prefer the culture of airline pilots today more than when I started. The attitude you have is the same one that shamed pilots for getting rollaboard bags instead of carrying a suitcase, using VNAV rather than mental math, or using speedbrakes to help ATC. Like it or not, the airline pilot community is becoming more diverse. Military grooming standards from the 1960s aren't always going to make sense today.
I don't care if anybody else has a beard. I'm just telling these guys why it's not allowed at most majors.
I also do not want to pay for someone else's beard privilege, but they are more than welcome to it if they can get policy relief outside of section six.