Vsop

For each hotel incident I was at the hotel. Sometimes curbside sometimes in the lobby always with the coat on.
For the uniform compliment I was in one of the ATL terminals.
Cbreezy said it exactly right. If the pilot uniform were so brand relevant, it would be like a coke can. It can be printed in any language in the world and everyone knows what it is.

CX500T

The answer is capes. Nobody has capes.

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DeltaboundRedux

Along similar lines:

If we're lucky/unfortunate, the new fabric from the pilot Banana Republic pilot uniform set will trigger hives/rashes/mass psychosis amongst the pilot group and we, too, will be able to wear anything we want for a couple of years.

The pilot onesie has never been closer to reality.

(I actually think the uniform is important. Just because your passengers don't care what they wear...see: PBI, MCO, MIA, FLL, DAB - Florida, basically, doesn't mean they don't care what YOU wear.)

interceptorpilo

But I guess that same person would mistake a Navy Officer for a doorman?

Big E 757

This was years ago but I was standing on the upper level at ORD waiting for the employee bus and some old timer walked up and dropped his golf club carrier at my feet and just stood there staring at me. I stared back with a smile starting to form at the corners of my mouth waiting for him to ask me something. He then tried to hand me his ticket finally and wanted me to check his golf clubs through to MYR. I then politely informed him that I wasn’t a sky hop (I think that’s what they’re called), I didn’t even work for USAirways.

It’s rare to be mistaken for bell hops and such, in my experience, but it does happen. Having said all that, I’m happy with the current uniform, but I wish hats were optional in the summer, and I wish we had the option of a leather jacket, or something that could also be worn on a layover, instead of having to pack a North Face coat in my bag. My suitcase in the winter is stuffed enough with everything else I need to pack.

MooseMuss

Nope, he gets confused with a Delta Pilot.

Gunfighter

I've had the airport version of that experience.

Passenger: "Hey can you help with my bags?"
Me: "Certainly, I'd be glad to fly them to XYZ as soon as they are loaded on my plane".

*Only occurs while wearing the hat.

Gooner

This is the way.

Flyweight

Flight suits, SS fuhrer uniforms, or just go full leather jackets and whatever.

overqualified52

So true . I think pilot’s uniforms need a complete overhaul . The pilot uniform originates back to after WW II when the Airlines really took off so to speak as society began to get back to normal and people traveled and dressed up . The Airline pilots were pretty much all military or former military and the Airline pilot uniforms mimicked the military uniforms . Flying had this romantic kind of mystique to it and from the end of WW II up through maybe the 90’s people got dressed up and Pilots were kind of idolized in the uniforms by the flying public . Now , as you mentioned , people dress like they are sitting at home on the couch and manners have gone out the window and being dressed up like a colonel as an Airline pilot just doesn’t have the same mystique and romance it once had . Maybe at mainline the public still pays attention to the pilots looking like a military pilot in the uniform , but at the regionals they probably don’t care . At the regionals hardly anyone wears a hat anyway . Now that we are making “mainline” type pay at the regionals, maybe they will start making us wear a hat and double breasted jacket 😂. I always liked the old Pan Am pilot uniforms with the White hats . Maybe we will change to that 😊