Hats are gay.

The End

As a retired NWA/DAL guy my only suggestion about uniforms is don't make anything optional. You end up with a bunch of guy's/gal's walking down the concourse looking like they are flying for two different airlines.

I'd rather have them optional then mandatory (but preferably not at all). To make them mandatory doesn't serve much purpose. Back when they were, half the pilots just held them in their hand or wedged them in between their rollaboard handle, so cookie-cutter uniformity remained elusive. If they become mandatory, all that means is management will have to dispatch "hat police" to patrol for violations (of course, they could enlist a contingent of squealers). All that does is give them another tool to divide and conquer the pilots.

AA isn't a military institution, it's a civilian business. If we're going to convert it to the former, we might as well require reference to hats as "covers" and also might as well have morning formations, saluting, marching and a required PT regimen (don't complete it, you see the CP). A neat, clean business appearance is obtainable without a hat.

Disagree 100%... Nothing worse than a pilot group that looks like a bunch of similarly dressed automatons so rigid you could stick a lump of coal up their.... and get a diamond. A certain pilot group comes to mind (love y'all and have friends there but don't really dig the look...)

Optional = laid back. Wanna wear a hat, knock yourself out. Don't want to, don't. Important thing here is to look professional and classy but not to the point where everyone looks the SAME.

Hats went bye bye a couple decade ago. Many foreign airlines don't even wear them anymore. The modern, professional look is blazer with stripes (no leather, I agree) well pressed uniform, sans hat.

JMO

Liberace Gay

You are right, I say we ban hats. While we are at it let's get rid of ties.

You hat haters aren't realizing that you are hurting the hat industry, right?

No more gov prince for me I prefer the Reverend instead.

Y'all better hope the uniform committee doesn't see the "Hotels.com." ad...

But if I don't have a hat, what will I wear when my captain bellows at the top of his lungs, "IIIIIIIII HAAAAAAVVVEEEEE AAAAAA SSAAAALLLLUUUUUTTTTEEEEE."

If you go bla (n) k you can't go back! Not only is you gonna ax mo' questions, but also hit peoples with bibles and crucifixes! And stay off da liquor kit, too!