If providing trousers and keeping crew warm means less sickness and crew taking sick leave, surely the airlines would like that?! Any airline that puts "image" ahead of the well-being of crew should be ashamed of themselves!!
(Flyblue, the new AF uniform is Oh-so-glam, I was showing it to a friend of mine who is here from France and had not heard of the uniform change - he said he loved it and could not wait to go home on holiday just to see it!!
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