The Hats are a joke...get rid of them. As for the studies that the public wants them so that we look safer....bullocks! No such study exists. If that was the case we would all be wearing long sleeve shirts and our jackets all year round, plus I would be addressed as "Captain" in public or on the flight deck !
I can tell you now that the only place you will see cx crew with hats is in HKG, because of the dreaded hat police. On the out port they sit in the the nav bag.
The fact that we are "Degrading" our profession is also rubbish. I heard the same thing when all of a sudden you were getting Captains that were in their 30's and 40's and not in their 50's. The public is not going to feel safe flying with such a young crew...bullocks!
I say it again the hats are a wast of time and money and the public will not even notice when they do go!