Not needed. Plenty already talk about "on deck" during the initial descent PA.

Fwiw early airline uniforms and terminology came from the nautical world. Hell, pan am called their captains "masters of ocean going vessels" or some deity thing. Not that I'm in favor of it, but that's the uniform lineage. Same with the sheepskin seats. Back to when it lined the leather jackets of the guys flying the mail. Which northwest did....so I guess neither pre merger outfit was any less "old school."

I wonder if passengers even care. Remember the skybus safari looking uniforms?

Leather jackets at Delta lol. Actually ROFLMAO.

How long have some of you guys been here?

My two pennies worth were that if you insist on making us look like ocean faring captains, then allow us to have majestic beards. We’ll see how that goes.

RJ sweater please. I don’t mind metal or embroidered wings.

That sweater looks like absolute trash. I’ve never seen it look good even once.

I am old school guy and actually like our jacket. We really only have to wear it for 6 months..and even then if your going south to the warm climates you can ditch it.

As far as a dry cleaning allowance like United’s, that would be A win! I really think that would improve the overall look of the entire pilot group. I wear the required uniform pants when I have the jacket on, and get it dry cleaned frequently, but in the summer it’s kohl’s for me and the wash machine with an occasional dry cleaning to get some extra starch on the pants. If we got reimbursed, I would stick with the authorized pants and go all dry cleaning all the time. I think many would follow suit. I don’t really care about the hat much either way..but it does up our professional look in my opinion.

We have to wear it for 4 months or less with exceptions.

Mona right?

Yes. This. We look like boat Captains already, boat Captains have sweaters too. Yes.

You’ve gotta combine it with the Hat and a plethora of “Embry Riddle” bag tags for the full RJ effect or you’re doing it wrong.