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Franchising Standards
Hello all,
I have just arrived back from Malta onboard a GB Airways flight operated in full BA colours and by crew in the uniforms as normal. But being BA crew myself I was not prepared for what met me at the steps of the plane as I boarded...Although a very nice chap by all means, the young lad had a smacking large silver tongue ring in his mouth!!!!!!
Now this isnt a bash at GB at all because iv two very good friends who fly for them and I fly them all the time (the airline not my friends that is) but I have just spoken to one of my friends on the phone and he just laughed!!!
Now to a passenger getting on this flight, what they see is British Airways and not GB, So when they board they get met by a mouth of metal representing the company they think they are flying with...surely this is by no means acceptable by any airlines standards. I know if I reported to work with my eye ring in id be frog marched down to my managers office before I had time to fart.
Your comments please...
PS.....Sorry if this sounds like a GB bash, I assure you its not, even this guy was a nice chap but I do think the tongue thing which was unmissable was out of order.
I have just arrived back from Malta onboard a GB Airways flight operated in full BA colours and by crew in the uniforms as normal. But being BA crew myself I was not prepared for what met me at the steps of the plane as I boarded...Although a very nice chap by all means, the young lad had a smacking large silver tongue ring in his mouth!!!!!!
Now this isnt a bash at GB at all because iv two very good friends who fly for them and I fly them all the time (the airline not my friends that is) but I have just spoken to one of my friends on the phone and he just laughed!!!
Now to a passenger getting on this flight, what they see is British Airways and not GB, So when they board they get met by a mouth of metal representing the company they think they are flying with...surely this is by no means acceptable by any airlines standards. I know if I reported to work with my eye ring in id be frog marched down to my managers office before I had time to fart.
Your comments please...
PS.....Sorry if this sounds like a GB bash, I assure you its not, even this guy was a nice chap but I do think the tongue thing which was unmissable was out of order.
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Fair comment to make. By no means is a tongue stud part of any company's uniform, it certainly isn't with mine - which is a good thing. However, it may be possible that this chap simply forgot he had it in.
I am not trying to justify it - but I have one myself and when it has been in your mouth for over three years it is possible to forget its even there! I remember not long after I started, I made the mistake of leaving it in, however a kind workmate informed me in the briefing so I was not caught out on the flight or by a senior.
The problem is, when it is hidden in your mouth, many people may not notice until you start up a conversation, but in this mans case - it should have also been noticed when answering his briefing questions before the flight. If you noticed it - then someone else will have.
Even though I have one, I do agree with company policy. Even in the case of clear tongue studs which some of my friends have been known to get away with. The fact is, although I love having one, many passengers may see it in a very different light - afterall it is a piercing in an unconventional place.
what does everyone else think?
craic1510
I am not trying to justify it - but I have one myself and when it has been in your mouth for over three years it is possible to forget its even there! I remember not long after I started, I made the mistake of leaving it in, however a kind workmate informed me in the briefing so I was not caught out on the flight or by a senior.
The problem is, when it is hidden in your mouth, many people may not notice until you start up a conversation, but in this mans case - it should have also been noticed when answering his briefing questions before the flight. If you noticed it - then someone else will have.
Even though I have one, I do agree with company policy. Even in the case of clear tongue studs which some of my friends have been known to get away with. The fact is, although I love having one, many passengers may see it in a very different light - afterall it is a piercing in an unconventional place.
what does everyone else think?
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I had a tongue ring for about a year before I commenced my ground school... was ordered to take it out, and it grew over that very night! 
so that was the end of that little charade....
Apparently you can get clear tongue studs now that are particularly hard to see?
so that was the end of that little charade.... Apparently you can get clear tongue studs now that are particularly hard to see?
