Allowing Tattoos
 

Hi! :)
There is nothing in the world I want more than to become part of a cabin crew...
But I have tattoos. I am more than happy to cover them with a skin-coloured bandage or slip or whatever, but two are on my arms (small one on forearm and medium sized on my upper arm so in a t-shirt you can see half of it or so).
I hear that some flight attendants do have tattoos, but I can't find a single airline who seem to allow it. I was so made up for Emirates but then after months of preparing for interviews and buying tattoo concealers and generally just being excited, I saw they don't allow covered ones.
Can you name some for me?
Thank you!

20 years ago thought about a small tattoo on the inside of my right bicep, so that when arms are hanging by the sides it would be totally invisible (next to rib cage).........Glad now I never did get it!!

Thought some CX FO had a pair of wings tattooed on his back?? :rolleyes:

7 years ago was at a water park with a much younger Jnr Fliegs, and thought to myself how good it would be to have a Tat removal parlour in years to come

No....I can't help you

Sad rule. I love tats myself,cant get any tho :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Twenty years on !
 

I think that the best thing you can do is look at a twenty year old tattoo because the new tattoo that you are about to get ( and will look fantastic ) will look like crap in twenty years.

I can't tell you the number of people who I know who deeply regret getting a tattoo that they are stuck with for life.

Please let me know which airlines allow visible tattoos. I will add them to my 'no fly' list.

Interesting selection criterion IMHO, but to each his own.

Are people who indulge in self mutilation who we want as cabin crew?

Why don't you get something useful for the job such as have the pax safety briefing on your arm. :ugh:;)

Agree that a walking color scheme would be somehow at odds with the image of flight crew, and neither do I have a tattoo nor do I like them. Still I fail to see the link between having an unobtrusive and unoffensive tattoo and the appearance let alone the potential or actual performance as a cabin crew member.

:bored:

I once had a boyfriend comment when he saw my toenail polish "I didn't think you were the sort of girl who did that". Aren't we a screwed up bunch with our own little, usually baseless, prejudices.

Clover91,

If you can't find any airline who accept you as CC due to your tattoos, then why not become a pilot? On the whole, no one cares about arm tattoos for pilots. You'll be completely skint after paying for all the training, but the view is much better up front & you don't have to put up with pompous, narrow-minded, unimaginative old men.

Well, not as often, anyway :ok:

Ah, You've met our chief pilot, then.

Be nice to them..........they pay your wages. :rolleyes:

Not mine :}

Would you consider having the tattoo's removed by laser ? That would be the way to get into Emirates ....

If not what about Virgin ? I am not sure about Virgin Atlantic , but in Australia Virgin Cabin crew can have tattoos .

Good luck :)

Personally, I don't have a problem with tattoo's...As a Captain of a VIP jet flying out of Saudi, my "principal" didn't either...In fact, my Cabin Chief (from Wales) for over 3 years had more than several, and sometime they showed...

It seems that this whole discussion involves frmale F/A's...how many times have you been a passenger and observed male F/A's with tats?

Bottom line, if that is the standard (no tats) to be employed, that's the way it is...

I don't agree and I think any Airline that won't consider a candidate because of "tats" could be missing out on a very valuable and dedicated employee...

Thank you Sue, (you know whow you are) for all of your years of "tattoed" service...

Has it not occurred to the tat brigade that airlines don't like them because passengers - yes, those pompous bla bla (can't be bothered to look) old men who pay your wages don't like seeing them on crew?

A large proportion of the population find tats offensive - nothing to do with pomposity, they convey all the wrong messages in a smart professional environment like an aircraft cabin. That's just the way it is. If you don't like it, cover up or don't be so stupid as to self mutilate in the first place. And get a job in car accessory shop where they might not be so out of place.

You wouldn't expect to be employed with bolts through your eyebrows - the line has to be drawn somewhere, and its easier to say "none visible" like my employer. But no metalwork.

Really? So how many young ladies break that rule with their belly button piercings, I wonder? That particular piece of metalwork seems to be extremely prolific. A few months ago I was travelling in the First Class cabin of an Air France 777 out of Hong Kong and the Cabin Attendant, a lady I would have put at early thirties, reached into the OHSC. As she did so, her blouse became untucked and a little flash of silver was there in her navel. So even the tres chic AF ladies may have a little something hidden.

Isn't it, once again, a case of 'non-visible'?

As a frequent flyer (Qatar Airways Gold Card) ,regularly flying Business, I don't really have a problem with tattoo's. I help the crew when they arrange my table, I'm polite when they ask questions (ie take off my earphones), quite frankly they are there to make my flight pleasant, I am , as a passenger (In my view) there to try and make their work as easy as possible.

I don't care if they look like the aftermath of a bus accident, what I do want is someone who can get me off that aircraft if the s##t hits the fan.

They are there not to look pretty (male or female), they are there for my safety. The meals, pleasantries etc are secondary to that.

Safety first, tatto's second.

Just my point of view as a passenger.

There are a couple of crew members at Flydubai who have tattoos. One of them I know has to wear a concealer as it would be exposed during normal service if not. It's only very small though.

It's not Emirates but is based in Dubai so that's one of your boxes ticked.

I think you'll find that a certain UK based low cost airline turn a blind eye to tattoos.

Most of the crew seem to have them - all be it, covered up.

Real classy seeing your cabin attendants covered in big giant plasters. :ugh: