I'd ban them from the cabin as well... I frequently fly long-haul with Middle East carriers; Emirates, Eithad, Qatar etc. Seeing passengers effectively travelling as if they took the wrong turn on the way to the beach, exposing acres of hairy tatto'd flesh is offensive to the airlines islamic customers and none too considerate for the rest of us either... Perhaps they think they look... 'cool'...?:=

I think they don't think AT ALL ... they certainly haven't thought about what happens if the flight is delayed and they are in those shorts, t-shirt and sandals for 36 hours. This might include a night in a very cold terminal lounge, or having to be anywhere at no notice.

The airlines don't like to tell Pax, "Your flight might be delayed by technical difficulties, bad weather, or circumstances beyond our control. Therefore, dress appropriately and have a jacket or other light weight garment. Don't forget to have all your medication in your handcase as you might never see your suitcase again. Oh and don't forget to have a list of important phone numbers if things go wrong because, once your cell phone battery is flat, you won't be able to look up the numbers to be able to call them from another phone. That's because you did leave your cell charger in your suitcase didn't you? And all the luggage is trapped on the plane until destination"

But then, I'm just a boring old f@rt whose been paxing too long ... :zzz:

WHY ARE WE/THEY IN THE LOUNGE
 

Page two and no mention that these are (mainly) air-side lounges. So, why are folk in them? My guess is that they are waiting to fly in an aircraft. Admittedly, some may be in them to visit a meeting room. These are not social clubs, footy clubs or RSL's - most of which have stringent dress standards for social reasons.

In either case, those folk in the lounges, either domestic or international, should be appropriately attired. That means long trousers etc. and decent footwear. Dress standards for safety reasons.

Guess I'm one of those old farts with standards.

Estelle Lucas has delightful form, lives in Melbourne and can be interfaced with on the internet.

http://www.estellelucas.com/

She would appear to have a problem with affording the correct footwear in which to enter business class lounges.

You can see what she thinks of the whole thing here. Would it be true to say she's on her uppers?


https://instagram.com/p/0697YhwO6n/

Crikey, $4,000 for overnight.

That'll be Australian dollars of course and the GST there is only 10%.

GST, in this case, I imagine stands for Good Servicing Tax, eh?

Still around £2000 though. So lets say 5 nights a week and 6 weeks hol a year, that's 460K a year. Not bad.

Everyone has to exploit their natural talents and assets to make a living.In that sense high class escorts are no different to the rest of us. ;)

I wonder if there's a market for a 59 year old bloke, own hair and teeth, dry wit and reasonable conversation. There must be some weirdos out there surely.

In my previous incarnation, I worked for an airline that did quite a number of flights to "holiday" destinations. The number of pax (male in this case) who would board the return flight in vest (singlet to our colonial cousins) and shorts, plonking his bod down next to some more civilised passenger. I made the suggestion that at least a short-sleeved T shirt would be mandatory, and suggested that the company had a supply available. My idea was to have the slogan "I am an idiot" front and back. It was never adopted, but I still think it's a good idea.

Years ago, three of my co-workers were flying back to Seattle BA Business class after some meetings at Rolls. Pre-flight, one of them (a bit of a hippy type) showed up at the Business class lounge wearing cutoffs and a t-shirt, and BA refused him entrance. He objected that two of his co-workers were already in the lounge and he wanted to join them. BA responded by escorting the two co-workers out of the lounge :eek:.

It took years for him to live that down...:=

All it needs is for the crew to turn down the cabin temperature to a level that gets the teeth chattering after an hour for those skimpily dressed....they'd soon get the message. Although that does nothing to address those trying to board in hi-viz and dusty boots.

Flying back from Bodrum on Thomas Cook a steward said to Mrs VC and I "I bet you own a home in Turkey don't you?".

I replied yes. He said " I can tell by the way you are dressed you don't look like the usual passengers on this route".

We were not over dressed but looking around at most of our fellow travellers I understood his point:eek:

The Qantas Domestic QC lounges (and to some extent the Domestic Business) lounges are very different to UK/European domestic. They are large and very busy lounges, the Perth lounge in a morning is full to the brim of Hi Vis wearing Fly In/Fly Out workers in boots, and this is still accepted because they bring in a lot of money for Qantas (<2 hour flights with AU$1000+ each way tickets). These guys are required to join on site in uniform.
The Qantas Club elsewhere is probably where the improperly dressed issue has arisen, because QC can be bought or is provided as a perk from employers and perhaps where the dressing down occurs. A colleague of mine arrived at Perth QC in thongs last week and was given a pair of a rubber shoes to wear.