The biggest pushback will be from the die hard hat wearing crowd who haven't realized the only other professions wearing old school suits are hotel managers and politicians.

Beards and Polos!

“Not all pilots who can grow beards, should.”

-A Canadian pilot I met at work who had a stellar beard.

Even in the Air Force I’m allowed to wear a light beard. If we can do it here as a pilot no reason why we can’t do it in the airlines when we are flying less demanding aircraft.

Beards are so passé now. Be a “maverick” and go clean shaven. Remember when tattoos were the exception instead of the rule? Now every sheeple out there has to have one. I’m clean shaven with no tattoos. Everyone thinks I’ve been doing hard time in prison and am going to kill them or something. I must say, it’s quite liberating.:D

Yep the rule is an outdated obsolete boomer tradition based on feminism. It needs to go. There is absolutely no reason pilots cannot have neatly trimmed and well groomed facial hair.

It's toxic masculinity. No room for that these days.

Weak facial hair on some men make them look transgendered. I think patchy ‘wiffle’ beards worn by some gents create a positive grooming environment for those ladies who want to look a bit more manly with facial hair of their own. If the transitioning female to male community spoke up about wanting beards, I’m betting that would open up beard wearing overnight.

Excessive attention to male grooming rituals reminds me of John Calhoun’s famous mice experiment in 1968, particularly the mice dubbed “the beautiful ones.” The experiment did not end well. (Probably debunked now, because what isn’t?)

Being able to shower, shave, brush teeth, comb/brush a tight haircut and be out a hotel door in 20 minutes quite nice after waking up at 3am body clock time after a 10 hour layover is quite nice.

(This might just be thin beard with way too much grey jealousy talking here)

I don't understand the dudes that style their hair either. What if that hair gel drips into their eye during a critical moment in flight?