Thread: Dress Codes

M767, Red32, I'm with you
Whatever happened to passengers dressing up to fly? Nowadays, it's roll out of bed and head for the terminal. Trust me, I've seen travel outfits that would make Brittney Spears blush. Sometimes I think there should be a dress code for passengers. I suppose I'm old skool, but even with the "relaxed" dress codes, I dress business casual for my flights, which means, I usually "stand out" in coach.
It's a different time. You know it wasn't that long ago that agents would routinely upgrade "deadheading crew" or an FA would "upgrade" a non-rev during a flight. Oh yeah I can remember, years ago, on a red eye to BOS, a FA came back and asked if we wanted to stretch out in first; definately a different time.

I am also with all of you.

I still dress in at least business casual. I often will even wear a suit and tie still. I think it was good to relax the dress code a little but it did go a bit far.

I can remember about 15 years ago, going to PVR in July when it was 100 degrees with 100% humidity. Everyone on the plane was in shorts and t-shirts and I was in a suit and tie. But no, nobody could tell who the nonrev was! Yeah, right! So much for keeping my nonrev status low key.

I can remember travelling back and forth to Florida from ORD, dressed in nice slacks, dress shirt, coat and tie and I would be the only person within a 100 mile radius that was dressed like that......and we weren't supposed to advertise to the paying pax that we were non-revs. THEY KNEW, just as surely as if we were wearing our uniforms.