Originally Posted by tennisguru

Um, have you seen our flight attendants recently?

Originally Posted by UGBSM

I have. They have a purple, grey, black, red, and pink ( sometimes) uniform. They even used to have casual fridays and could wear jeans.

Originally Posted by Speed Select

Dont forget about the crocs. Seriously, I’ve worked with many many FAs who wear these spongy mesh croc-like shoes.

Originally Posted by Jaww

I just told my wife about the changes and that I was going single breasted. She doesn’t know the difference so I showed her the pictures. She informed me I would still be going double breasted

I guess anecdotally there is a data point.

Originally Posted by Iceberg

At least they made the stripes a weird color to go with the sun faded gray.

Originally Posted by dbrownie

I saw the sample in NY the material feels cheap and flimsy. I like the durability of the wool. Who doubts they didn’t go w the cheapest esp if they are paying for it?
We have never had uniform police other than ATL that I know of…so this will be one of those delayed roll out changes.
IMO

Originally Posted by saturn

This whole battle of uniform importance lives in the minds of deltoid pilots. You put way too much stock in NPS questions, as if the same questioned asked to a UA customer (How well dressed was your pilot?) would be terribly different. Passengers don't care that much about the nuance in buttons on your jacket, or your blazer color, etc.

Funny we have folks debating the dignity of our brand image, yet our corporate side has no problem outsourcing 1500+ daily flights to Skywest, Republic, EDV, (and historically several others) whose uniforms pieces include no hats, single breasted blazers, trench-coat, leather coat, sweater with epaulets, navy blue colors, different brass etc, all while being thanked for flying Delta. Guess what? Corporate not only knows most folks think they're still flying on Delta when they board that E175, they proactively try to blur the distinction. OBTW, I know our NPS on SKW is still very high, probably others too.

So yeah, If we switched buttons on our suit, or got a modern materials real coat option, etc, it would make an insignificant impact on our brand or bottom line. Most impactful in the minds of people who's identity is tied to their uniform.

Originally Posted by Planetrain

I’m on the other end of the spectrum. Pilots/flight attendants/mechanics/gate agents… each position needs 1 uniform. (2 if we’re going to do summer/winter.). It looks better as a group and has functionality identifying who works here.

The ultimate experiment in comfort was years ago when we did BCRF month and as an employee (not pilots) if you made a donation, you could wear a pink t-shirt and jeans ALL MONTH.

It was almost comical watching passengers come up the jet bridge and couldn’t find the gate agent to ask about connections, particularly international connecting customers that didn’t understand the fundraiser or speak English. Imagine the chaos of a bunch of t-shirts trying to corral passengers evacuating a jet if we had an emergency. On top of that, we looked like trash. Some can pull off pick-your-own-jeans day, some insist on 3 sizes too small!

Dress for the job you want. If we all dress like train engineers, expect to get paid like a train engineer.

Originally Posted by Speed Select

You could ask that about anything.

Retirement pillar? To what end? I saved for retirement, too bad the deadzoners didn’t.

Professionalism? To what end? As long as I’m stable by 1,000’ and land in the touch down zone.

Courtesy? To what end? We’re not family and I don’t personally gain from being nice to you.

Uniforms? To what end? Nobody cares.

Teamwork and loyalty? To what end? Extract as much profit from the company as possible.

I hope you can sense the sarcasm. In the end, it’s fellow employees that make this job great or make it suck. You can choose who you’re going to be. Pretty much true everywhere. The sad thing is, people pretty much only care about themselves and don’t give a **** about fellow Delta employees.

I flew with a captain like you once. Bithched me out for filling out the menu request before him. “This used to be a captain’s airline!” Everything was about him. Set a good tone for the future of Delta.

What was the name of that truck driving school? I think I’m gonna need that.