Pilot: 'Gays, Grannies and Grandes' in Chicago

[WestVirginiaRebel]

nbcchicago.com:

Southwest Airlines was once well known for hiring only female flight attendants and dressing them in hot pants. At least one of its pilots apparently dislikes that it's not like that anymore.

"Eleven f***ing over-the-top f***ing a** f***ing homosexuals and a granny. Eleven! I mean, think of the odds of that," the unidentified pilot said during a March flight.

He was talking to his co-pilot after take off from Houston about his attempts at having a nightlife with Southwest Airlines crew members laying over in Chicago, a city he called "party land."

The pilot labeled his Chicago-based flight crew as a "continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes."

"So in six months I went to the bar three times; in six months, three times. Once with the granny and the f*g, and I wished I hadn't gone," he said.

What the pilot didn't apparently know what that everything he was saying was being transmitted over an open microphone on the air traffic control frequency. Controllers and pilots heard it all and tried several times to curb the dialogue.

"OK, someone has a stuck mic and telling us about all their endeavors and we don't need to hear that," a controller is heard saying.

The airline suspended the pilot without pay, forced him to take sensitivity training and the put him back in the cockpit.
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Audio here. (Warning: NSFW.) Needless to say, it wasn't the smartest thing for him to have done...

[Casino67]

Naturally, the stews are going to sue the airline and the pilot. KaChing!!

[Sabre86]

Needless to say, it wasn't the smartest thing for him to have done...

 

May not have been smart, but he was not far off. Just about all flight attendants with the major carriers are females well over 40 or homosexual men. The young, single women are stuck flying for the commuter airlines. (No offense intended to women over 40, just stating the facts of modern airline employment due to union seniority rules.)

 

There was a time that there were some very specific requirements to be a stewardess

 

-Female

-Very Attractive

-Single

-Weight proportional to the body size

-Most airlines had a height/weight limit

 

If you gained too much weight, got pregnant, or got married, you were fired on the spot. Once you were deemed to be too old (ie when your looks had started to fade), you either had to retire, take a non-flying supervisor position, or take another position within the company if one was offered.

 

Just watch the movie "Airport" to see what I mean. Even in 1970 many of these requirements were still in effect to one degree or another and the movie was pretty accurate (for a movie) in its portrayal of how airlines operated during that era.