Originally Posted by gonyon

Colgan doesn't have a uniform standard. in any given crew you'll see one guy with a trench no hat, one guy with leather and a hat, on FA with black kicks and a blazer and one with dockers (blue doesn't match at all on dockers) and a vest.

We look like shi* plain and simple. But this company has no class or standards so it reflects in the way we look in the terminal.

Wearing the uniform well is important in my opinion. How we look, speak and act are half of the product as far as the traveling public are concerned. We really need to get fitted for good uniforms and have some enforcement of the standard. Some leather jackets look great some look like complete crap. Many pilots can't seem to tell the difference. Many pilots do not dry clean their pants and it shows. It looks like amateur flight instructor hour. (not their fault entirely as it can get expensive and they pay us so little, but the result is the same none the less). Pilots don't replace their shirts often enough or scrub the collars resulting in ring around the collar and ratty looking shirts. Our blues don't match between the pants, coat, hat and tie which sometimes is very obvious and looks horrible.

I hope when the merger is said and done, we get new uniforms.