controller1

Lands' End is making new uniforms for American Airlines employees - Jan. 9, 2018

From the article:

The carrier announced Tuesday that 51,000 airline workers, including flight attendants and customer service representatives, will receive new work outfits in late 2019.

. . .

The new uniforms from Lands' End still need to be designed. The plan is to start testing them out in October 2018.

LovePrunes

So Land's End is no longer part of Sears like Kmart is.

Too bad, as I was looking forward to all kinds of jokes about "if the FA's didn't like their uniforms before, just wait till they get what Dougie put on layaway."

skylady

We just want something that won't give us a rash, or respiratory illness.

AANYC1981

Hopefully the clowns of US Airways can get this right the 2nd time around...already seems like they’re copying Delta on their literal approach to vendor, testing, fitting etc.

wrp96

theshortfinal

Off topic, but anyone see Alitalia doing a uniform re-design in the midst of takeover/bankruptcy. Viva Italia!

3Cforme

What were the issues Delta experienced with its latest uniform changeover?

ksweeney

I like the fact that Lands End has a proven track record with airline uniforms. The supply uniforms to DL. I sometimes fly DL when going to the few cities that AA doesn't currently server (e.g. Missoula) and have never had uniforms come up as a point of concern by DL flight attendants. I wish though that this change had happened sooner but better late than never.

AANYC1981

ksweeney

Actually if AA were copying DL, they would be buying used airplanes and keeping old planes much longer. For example, DL over the past few years has purchased a large number of MD-90s from China Southern and China Eastern. Many of DL's large fleet of Boeing 757's are former TWA planes that AA found to be inconsistent with it's existing fleet of 757's. DL still has over 200 MD-80 and MD90 series aircraft while AA is down to 45 and shrinking fast. In general the DL fleet is the oldest of the 5 largest U.S. carriers. It also has by far the least rationalized fleet of any U.S. carriers which no doubts creates huge issues with training, maintenance, and schedules. DL may be financially correct with their strategy of updating interiors in old planes, but that may fail if oil rises in cost and suddenly they are stuck with a large fleet of old MD-80s, MD90, 757s, and 767s (they have more of those planes than anyone else).

mvoight

In my many years of flying, I have never had a uniform discussion with an FA from any airline

ksweeney

In 50+ years of commercial flying the only discussion of uniforms that I have ever had have been with AA flight attendants. The conversations were early on when discussing the similarity in scarf colors to the old "Delta Flying Colors" scheme. That's when I heard the complaints. Like you I don't recall having conversations with FA's on uniforms - I have had a lot of conversations with "disgruntled" FA's on many other issues though on multiple carriers especially with United, Northwest, America West and US Airways staff before these carriers merged with other carriers. The most notable change is the legacy NWA flight attendants who once seemed almost hostile to passengers seem to be reasonably happy when I fly the occasional Delta flight out of MSP or DTW.

SkyTeam777

Just flew with an FA working the galley ICN-DFW dressed in layman's closed. A frilly white shirt with long trail down one side and black pants. She may be using the uniform issues as a way not to wear the current pieces, but this was nowhere close to a replacement. It made for an odd experience; several people were commenting that they found it odd some random person was working the galley and preparing their meals.

CHOPCHOP767

I've noticed a few AA FAs wearing their old PMAA uniforms, which now makes sense to me given the problems they had with the new uniform. I didn't mind the old uniform much (PMAA), but the turtle necks from the PMUS side were truly pathetic. Hopefully the new uniforms get a pop of color. Grey uniforms, grey planes, grey linens, grey cabins...

JDiver

t least the new uniforms will be blue (a more traditional airline uniform color) than the Twin Hill emphasis on grey. Why American Airlines is going back to blue in new uniforms from Lands' End, 21 Feb 2018 Business Journal. Lands’ End* makes uniforms Alaska and Delta.

*Lands’ End was a Sears / Sears Holding owned company 2002-2013. It is not currently associated with Sears.

Old Twin Hill uniforms: