Gay colors?
 

Why is a aircraft being taken off line (QF) to be painted in rainbow colors with a rainbow flag for the Gay Mardi Gras? Engineers are enraged at this message they got from hirachy. Hopefully its a joke, but in these days......... its more then possible.

Why? It gives them kudos & will encourage more to fly with them than it will put them off. The QF fanboys will spin it that QF is doing it for social justice but in reality, free publicity and extra revenue. The QF media machine in action.

Before this is closed...

Do you have issues with all QF themed aircraft? Or just this one? I'd hazard a guess that it's this one in particular. Go be miserable somewhere else.

Why? Because Marketing told them to, that's why. Why would engineers be enraged by a paint job? Special paint jobs are almost always done during a check - highly unlikely that QF would waste hangar time.

EVA have Hello Kitty planes. No howls of outrage from the engineers there

Qantas is a sponsor, it's a major event that attracts a lot of foreign and domestic visitors and the "pink" dollar is huge.

Rainbow Roo ? Qantas shows support for Sydney Mardi Gras | Australian Aviation

Partners ? Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

The flag is upside down. International sign of distress. Seems about right

Well spotted Keg. :D:D:D

Alan Joyce open in his lifestyle and the Gay Mardi Gras, what did you think would happen

I call BS.
Most Engineers have ceased living in the 80's and are enjoying the present decade where issues like this are....... non-issues.

It's been a long time (more than a decade) since I've flown with anyone that has expressed homophobic opinions (in the true sense of the word). I don't know of anyone that has a problem flying with a LGBTQI colleague.

The angst that I detect is more about the overt politicisation of the workplace- particularly for those who may not support the parallel #equalityis campaign Qantas is running. Even a couple of people I've spoken to that support SSM think the use of the A330 in these colours is inappropriate politicisation- their words, not mine.

So? Why do you need to get on Pprune and tell evetyone?

phobia
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noun: phobia; plural noun: phobias
an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

I don't know anybody who has a fear of them but know plenty that don't like them.

Then perhaps we should have one done for Anzac Day. A day for ALL Australians.

Now you're just embarrassing yourselves.

Probably because they are snowed under with real jobs. And dont have time to pull a A/C off line, for a job like this.

Why should it be closed? Because its not PC? I thought we still lived in a democracy.Its not about Gays, so why not have a Aircraft painted for Anzac Day? Australia Day? Labor Day? Palm Sunday? Easter? Christmas? Oddly enough, some find it offensive for three quarter naked people, strutting their stuff in a public place. Then painting an aircraft that carries The Australian Flag, to promote it. Those people also have a right, to express their opinion.

Did you think, nobody would notice?

Wanna bet?

Exactly Keg. Anzac Day for ALL Australians regardless of color or creed or sexuality, I would understand.A Mardi Gras, I find perhaps a little disconcerting. Then again I flew with pilots who would think LGBTQI were jumble words that meant something, you just had to get it.Different times.PS. I still don't know what they mean.What is a Q? Or an I?

It will be closed because it starts attracting the likes of cattletruck being offensive and making comments that have nothing whatsoever to do with aviation.

Do Qantas sponsor any of those events for 2017? No.