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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 9:47 pm
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pilotalan
 
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Originally Posted by WRCSolberg
Interestingly, I was on a United flight not too long ago who I rarely fly and one of the flight attendents had on a pilot's type uniform, only with two stripes instead of three or four. I assume that's an outfit choice available to United FAs..
Back in the day, 4 stripes was Captain, 3 was First Officer, 2 was Flight Engineer, 1 was navigator.

I am not crazy about stripes for the FAs. It denotes licensed flight-rated aircrew.
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