Air Canada revoked a worker's flying privileges after her daughter complained
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I used to dress a bit nicely for J flights, but after a few flights, I no longer care.
Though I would say on routes/flights with lots if business travellers, I could be quite “noticeable” as I am often the only one not in business attire. Not sure if others care, but I don’t.
Agree that dress code for non rev may need to be updated, as less people seem to care.
Though I would say on routes/flights with lots if business travellers, I could be quite “noticeable” as I am often the only one not in business attire. Not sure if others care, but I don’t.
Agree that dress code for non rev may need to be updated, as less people seem to care.
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By "business traveler", you seem to be retricting yourself to non-technical professionals such as financial, legal, and marketing. Few if any technical professionals (at least in North America) would wear what a 20th century person would have called "business attire". That's just not the culture in the industry.
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By "business traveler", you seem to be retricting yourself to non-technical professionals such as financial, legal, and marketing. Few if any technical professionals (at least in North America) would wear what a 20th century person would have called "business attire". That's just not the culture in the industry.
I am in tech myself, and I would say most of the younger generations wear pretty casually, while the older generation, whether they are middle/senior management or senior level ICs, tend to wear more casually.
For non revs IMO, I don’t think strictly enforcing dress code is still needed. Some one in yoga pants is gonna be quite noticeable in the J cabin of YYZ-YVR flight, but not so much on a flight to the Caribbean. And most importantly, do people really care? DYKWIA type of behaviours, such as the daughter mentioned in the article, is gonna be quite noticeable regardless of her clothes or the flight.
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I used to dress a bit nicely for J flights, but after a few flights, I no longer care.
Though I would say on routes/flights with lots if business travellers, I could be quite “noticeable” as I am often the only one not in business attire. Not sure if others care, but I don’t.
Agree that dress code for non rev may need to be updated, as less people seem to care.
Though I would say on routes/flights with lots if business travellers, I could be quite “noticeable” as I am often the only one not in business attire. Not sure if others care, but I don’t.
Agree that dress code for non rev may need to be updated, as less people seem to care.
I used to wear my full dress formal Air Force uniform when traveling and was routinely upgraded. I thought it was a military perk, but eventually I realized it only happened when wearing that specific uniform. That was in the 90's.
These days I couldn't care less either.
I'm in J pajamas as soon as the seatbelt light goes off.
I do admire nice attire, but the "dressing up to fly" culture seems to be at risk of extinction, with that endangered species only to be found in the Archipelago F .
Last edited by Ghoulish; Aug 4, 22 at 12:32 am
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By "business traveler", you seem to be retricting yourself to non-technical professionals such as financial, legal, and marketing. Few if any technical professionals (at least in North America) would wear what a 20th century person would have called "business attire". That's just not the culture in the industry.
Most of my flying is on business, but I’m in jeans and a t-shirt regardless. Heck, I’m often flying for business with 20-30 of my colleagues on the flight with me, and none of us would be distinguishable from leisure travellers.
Meanwhile, a good friend of mine would never be caught dead flying to his vacation in any less than a collared shirt and slacks.
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I'm at best in dockers and a corporate polo; usually I'm a walking MEC/REI model user.
But then, dress code was never a condition of the ticket I paid for. So entirely irrelevant to compare myself to someone who has those kinds of conditions put on them.
Still, I never take my shoes (er, boots) off.
But then, dress code was never a condition of the ticket I paid for. So entirely irrelevant to compare myself to someone who has those kinds of conditions put on them.
Still, I never take my shoes (er, boots) off.
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I also fly primarily for work, and find attire tends to vary mainly by the day of the week. People doing day trips or overnighters between Monday and Thursday are more likely to be in a suit or business casual. Fridays (and Sundays on TATL legs) the uniform is jeans, a t-shirt (ideally with a small hole in it somewhere), a smart suit jacket and $600 loafers.
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Moderator note: as interesting as the discussion of what people wear while they travel might be, we're getting pretty far from the incident that's the topic of this thread. Let's please try to get back to the AC employee whose travel privileges were suspended and the daughter who caused it.
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Edit: Didn’t see the comment from the moderator about the topic.
To salvage the relevance of this post, I’ll say that my view is that Air Canada was very merciful. I can imagine that the 62 year old employee was on the verge of retirement and, presumably, hoped to make use of her benefits and it would be quite unfortunate to be deprived of them.
To salvage the relevance of this post, I’ll say that my view is that Air Canada was very merciful. I can imagine that the 62 year old employee was on the verge of retirement and, presumably, hoped to make use of her benefits and it would be quite unfortunate to be deprived of them.
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Yes, that was the part that struck me. At 62 there is a short window to take advantage of employee perks that have now been stripped. Being within spitting range of the sponsors age, I can't imagine how I would have reacted to one of my kids pulling something similar. Without exaggeration there would have been a discussion regarding their share of the inheritance.
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Yes, that was the part that struck me. At 62 there is a short window to take advantage of employee perks that have now been stripped. Being within spitting range of the sponsors age, I can't imagine how I would have reacted to one of my kids pulling something similar. Without exaggeration there would have been a discussion regarding their share of the inheritance.
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Notwithstanding some interesting commentary on this thread, the public details of the initial incident are so thin that I’m left wondering how much substantive judgment can be made here, beyond the daughter’s poor choice of cc’ing the media as a first course of action.
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Notwithstanding some interesting commentary on this thread, the public details of the initial incident are so thin that I’m left wondering how much substantive judgment can be made here, beyond the daughter’s poor choice of cc’ing the media as a first course of action.
She intentionally misrepresented herself as a paying passenger in order to receive compensation.
Though carefully worded, they've quite literally said she attempted to criminally defraud the airline through deception for gain.
On another note, common sense would inform us that had the original complaint had merit and been reasonable, thereby making the media's beloved "victim" an even more sympathetic figure, it would've been included in the multitude of stories sourced by the daughter herself. It's very, very unlikely the story would've been published without her explaining that. It must make her look quite bad so was left completely unaddressed.
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Libel doesn’t apply to private communication. The email appears to have been sent from the airline to the employee, subsequently made public by the daughter: "An email sent to the employee suggested her daughter had misrepresented herself as a revenue-generating customer." Even then, the email only appears to have “suggested” misrepresentation.
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Putting aside this particular case I do find something kind of odd and off-putting about the "flight privileges are a privilege that the employer has complete control over and isn't part of your employment contract" thing. They're highly valuable and a big draw the airline is happy to use to recruit people. I understand the contract is negotiated with the union and the union has presumably made some calculated decision that they're better off picking battles elsewhere but the result sure feels weird from the outside.