Best uniform ever was in our TAA DC3. Stubbies, army socks and boots, and a cap.Thats it. The Skipper had Mickey Mouse on the front of his, in case we pranged her, so they woukd know who was boss.
40 deg everyday out in the GAFA with the Geologists on board. Worked a treat till the hirachy found out, we had swapped the normal outfit, and outfitted ourselves out of the Mt.Isa army disposal store. Should be more of it. They still fly the same.

And the 5 guys above were just a QF DC3 crew :)

They never did keep up. Look at the poor b%%gers, look like store models.

Hetro, white, male? I hope you are not Catholic as well.

The gold braid on the new uniforms seems have been downsized, compared to past uniforms.

With Gold at the moment at $1270 US an ounce they had to down size the braids. :p

Well, I don't hear you're having THIS issue with your new uniforms:

http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/n...html?ana=yahoo

Catch Me If You Can scheduled to air immediately after the latest episode of Ready for Takeoff tonight.

Is someone taking the mickey?

Believe me, in my opinion this new uniform stinks. This is not going to make this company win bigly. Time to support winners, not losers.

Where can I get one of those hats? I like it.....I am just a bush pilot and like to crack a joke to my clients ocassionally.....:D

Here ya go . Can get the whole uniform!

Retro Pilot Mens Costume | THEMES

You handsome high-flyer you! :)

You can have mine. And I just found some much better wings in an air museum shop.

If it doesn't fit I'm happy for you to have mine!!!

A multi page guide to wear a uniform? Most pilots, military or otherwise have worn uniforms for a long time. Other pilot uniforms were simply introduced and people exchanged the existing for the new one..

The modern Qantas with buildings full of HR/IR types all struggling for relevance concoct and try to introduce a control over pilots. A performance management tool? Maybe the Chief is being persuaded what is needed is KPI's for pilots and this is the beginning.

Ironically HR/IR have had far more success with circumventing career paths with the whole JQ, Network,Cobham,Jetconnect (am I missing one?).

When Todd Samson doesn't wear a four day growth and a grotty T-Shirt as a board member, and the desk jockeys in 'the street' have to wear a jacket and tie on leaving the hallowed offices of irrelevance, then one suspects the pilots will too..

I like Todd Sampson, he's a cool funny guy etc. BUT, his expertise is in marketing and PR and I'm sure he's great at it but what exactly would he bring to the QF non executive sphere other than that? We saw the dire consequences of putting as CEO someone who only knows PR with the fallout of Dreamworld, Ardent Leisure and Deborah Thomas.

Yes Jeps,

You are correct, he (Todd) brings marketing and branding, that is all.
This whole uniform exercise reeks of spin.

How many likes on fool book does it get?
Not whether the uniform is functional..
Geez a certain airline CEO faced with a 'clanker' of a uniform, gave the staff the budget a,timeline and a vote..He stipulated when voted on, no more complaints...
The uniform was designed and on budget. The crew wore it, without exception proud to be in it.

The CEO also undertook to wear the existing uniform until the new one was rolled out...Can't see the hallowed genius of QCA wearing it at Qantas.

Candidly giving people ownership is much easier and far more productive to a company than controlling and IR derived policies, but then the HR/IR types would have to find something else with which to justify their existence...

THE SADDEST THING , ABOUT THE NEW UNIFORM IS ,,,, WHEN I WORKED FOR QANTAS IN THE 1960s -- THE KANGEROO HAD WINGS ---- NOW THEY ARE MISSING ---- WHAT KEEPS THE PLANES UP NOW------- BUT , NOW YOU CAN ASK FOR ICECREAM-----------

Am I having flashback? Looks like a guest appearance by sTu (tm) ;)

Just done a quick "google" in response to some of the comments I have seen on here and there is something distinctly odd about many of the photos.... the heads seem over-large for the bodies on many of them, cartoon-like.

Someone been playing with the software (or the food) ???