Originally Posted by
megan
A uniform helps, a major US airline had a crew scheduled to ferry a 707 sans pax so they rolled up sans uniform, folk in the terminal saw the non uniformed crew in the cockpit and reported to authorities that someone was trying to steal the aircraft, airline later promulgated an order that crews would always wear uniform when on duty.
Interesting story! I guess it being a 707 this must have taken place a few decades ago. Nowadays even sans uniform crews will definitely be wearing the company badge with a lanyard decorated with the company logo which would ease everybody's minds.