In the cockpit with the door closed, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt or a blanket. In public, approved uniform. Btw those down puffer jackets that you see everywhere are awesome for the overnights. Warm and they stuff into a sack the size of my toiletry kit. My leather jacket stays in the hotel closet

I have a north face style jacket and fleece vest in addition to long Johns available for the overnight. My leather jacket only gets worn on duty. WTH are some of you packing that you can’t carry both easily?

Or here’s a thought. Carry a vest to go under the blazer for all three minutes of your walk around.

I’ve been wearing a black with no branding “north face” style jacket around. My leather jacket has been at Perrone getting tailored for the better part of the winter. New uniform is supposed to have a north face style option so hopefully they get the ball rolling on that soon. As for everyone else, if you want to wear a tactical looking sweater then have at it, doesn’t really bother me. As for it not being “approved” neither is taking a snack box from the galley.


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This is all great but on my last overnight in ATL, the van driver didn't even recognize my FO as a pilot being dressed in his Northface jacket with his bright Blue " Dickies" pants. Seems so many pilots have no consideration of looking professional. I know, go work for Delta, but take some pride in your appearance. And let the haters begin.

I think that’s a great idea. However captains should get the yellow shirt, and first officer should get a blue shirt. Nobody wants the red shirt because those guys always die when they beam down to a planet. If we’re keeping with the whole Star Trek theme.

My personal opinion.

Every halfway decent place I have worked for provided a uniform. I went to NK (2013) and got $38/hr and no uniform paid for. If a company can afford to give a free uniform to every pilot except new hires you can expect non-compliance. It costs $500 to give every new-hire a free uniform, but NK is too cheap to do it, you get North face, Dickies, aso. Yes, I knew that when I got, hired, just as NK should have seen the black uniform pants coming when they hired me...

I will not be the uniform police until they provide a free uniform to new hires.

This. I got several shirts, pairs of pants, hat, tie, a suit jacket, trench coat, and Luggage Works RON bag as a new hire in new hire class at the regional I used to work for. Got a three-in-one winter coat a year later that I still wear because it's actually comfortable, professional, and warm. That was a regional airline. Thankfully the colors were close enough to Spirit's that I'm still able to wear that same stuff and "look like a pilot."

Would you guys like a gas card to pay for your gas to the airport too? Or will you be walking because the company doesn’t pay you for that? IIRC most regionals, at least up until a few years ago, didn’t provide hotel rooms. What did you guys do, sleep in tent cities outside of FlightSafety?

Geez, just wear what the guidance tells you to wear. Not that hard.

Paid single occupancy hotel room. Paid uniforms. Paid luggage. Per diem for all training not at HQ. $400/week stipend for first four weeks, then minimum guarantee. Positive space flights home for Thanksgiving holiday. Oh and as far as gas, commuters got cost of parking in our base or $30/month, whichever was greater, towards cost of parking at ANY one airport of our choice.

At a regional. It's not the same industry it used to be.

If you can afford it for the pilots at 18 months, you can afford it for the new hires. Stop making excuses for not giving a free uniform to the most poorly paid pilots on OUR property.