Maybe not, but that's not typically the kind of place you want to stay for a career. Big-jet cargo operators will have the same standards as pax airlines.

Probably easiest to just wear long sleeves. If they're visible above the collar or below the sleeves you probably need to get them lasered off, or your options as a pilot will be very limited.

Hahaha i worked with that guy before he was odd

we allowed F/As to have full osama beards now. Why not visible tats?

Pilots aren't FA's.

You can always be a mechanic. The tats will increase your social standing, total "whiskey tango" culture.

If you own a tat shop or play drums in a band, by all means go for it. You might be the richest guy or gal in the room but people will make assumptions. It’s literally ink driven under the skin with a needle, not a sure-fire, feel-good opportunity to demonstrate to the world its naïveté.

It’s 2018, plenty of tattoo removal centers are in every major city. If you only want some ink for 10 or 20 years, no problem.

I know someone going through tattoo removal presently. It is a long process with no guarantee of total success. It is very expensive and somewhat painful to this person - meaning the site is red and inflamed for a few days afterwards. This was a very simple black ink only tattoo about the size of a silver dollar - not some multi-colored sleeve. Sort of like a vasectomy which some will say can be reversed, you had better look at it as something permanent in the here and now. I’m sure removal technology will continue to improve but that is still a roll of the dice.

And that assumes you aren't a keloid former. You want to see some disasters, Google keloid and tattoo and hit images.

Man, I KNEW I shouldn't have looked at that right before bed