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Looking
for a new way to lower operating costs, We Care Air seems
to have only lowered its standards.
When
the airline announced earlier this year that it would start
charging customers fees for food, luggage, movies and pillows,
passengers reacted angrily.
We
Care Air's latest cost cutting measure has critics bellowing
that the airline should go ahead and change its name to Barely
There Air.
In
an attempt to further reduce expenses, We Care Air is no longer
issuing standardized uniforms to its flight attendants. The
airline is instead allowing its employees to report for duty
in whatever attire they desire.
That
means T-shirts are predominantly in and collared dress shirts
and blouses are out.
"Passengers
are subjected to all kinds to racy and raunchy T-shirts on
board flights," said Andrew Mullins, editor of the Airline
Industry Insider Magazine. "You feel like you're at a frat
party minus, of course, the cheap beer and drunk coeds. And
everyone knows it's a lame ass party without cheap beer and
drunk coeds. You hear that We Care Air, you're lame."
Some passengers have taken that frat party atmosphere a little
too far. Two weeks ago a Mississippi man en route to California
was arrested after "accidentally" spilling alcohol on a female
flight attendant clad in a tight T-shirt. The man later admitted
he was hoping to start a wet T-shirt contest because he was
bored and the airline wasn't showing a movie.
Despite
all of the negative attention and criticism We Care Air has
received recently, it's adamant about sticking to its new
policy.
"We're
trying to save money here," We Care Air President John Reed
said. "We could have continued designing new uniforms for
employees and passed along the costs to passengers. We didn't
want to do that so we allowed our employees to wear T-shirts.
The bottom line is passengers need to demonstrate better self-control
on our planes. You just can't go pouring drinks down an employee's
T-shirt no matter how decent her rack is."
Wendy
O'Brien has been a flight attendant at We Care Air for seven
years. She said she appreciates the freedom that comes from
the company's new dress code policy. It's allowed her to communicate
her beliefs and ideas she says many women are often discouraged
from expressing within the industry.
"Do you know how many times I wanted to tell the captain to
kiss my ass," O'Brien said. "I can do that now through a T-shirt.
I can express my political beliefs or support any Presidential
candidate I want. And if I want, I can even mix religion and
politics. I wore a Jesus for President T-shirt last week.
It said "You can vote for me or you can burn in hell." Now
that's powerful. Who wants to burn in hell?"
We
Care Air can only hope its profits don't go up in smoke. As
a way to promote its business, it is now offering passengers
a free T-shirt with every ticket purchased. Making fun of
itself, the T-shirts read, "I took a flight on We Care
Air and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. No food, no pillow,
no movie, no problem."
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