DJ Cabin crew dressed in drag take to the skies in MEL!

[drewbles]

I love the fact that its something different, when you think that 80% of the aviation staff are made up of Gay and Lesbians anyway.

In saying that I wish my Friday night flight down to Sydney would of been that fun, a coughy Drag-queen would provide better service sometimes!

80%? That's rather on the high side. One guy I met (strangely enough, the person who got me a job in the Telco world) was an ex-NZ FA. He said there really are not that many gay men in the FA community, contrary to popular belief. Sure there are some of them, but not that many. Most the ones I've seen on my flights in OW airlines have been very masculine men, with wedding rings. I know that doesn't necessarily mean much, but they very obviously flirt with the females and are just polite to the men (I'm doing the best I can to not be sterotyping here, but these are just observations).

I think you'll find there's a far higher percentage of gay and lesbian people in IT, at least in my experience (I know many through work and various friends as well - Could be something to do with call centres ).

And coughy drag queens grate on my nerves after a few minutes. There's a good reason I never go to the Greyhound, despite living just around the corner from it

 

[straitman]

I love the fact that its something different, when you think that 80% of the aviation staff are made up of Gay and Lesbians anyway.

tuppaware,

Talk about stereotyping :!:

I'm sure that there are well in excess of 80% of airline staff who would take you to task on that one.

 

[drron]

On a slightly different tack the Sunshine Coast Daily was reporting on the Post Mardi gras influx to Noosa and was describing how everyone flew up on the "red eye'flight!
Maybe a lot of red eyes on the flight but a red eye SYD-MCY.Hardly.

 

[docjames]

Maybe a lot of red eyes on the flight but a red eye SYD-MCY.Hardly.

Depart SYD 10pm, circle for 8 hrs, land MCY @ 0600. Awesome.

 

[drron]

Depart SYD 10pm, circle for 8 hrs, land MCY @ 0600. Awesome.

Now why didn't I think of that!

 

[Dalmien76]

That does change things considerably in relation to this flight... For me personally again this is not a flight I would have taken through choice.

Yes Simon, it was somewhat a charter flight as a revenue flight was pulled from its schedule, and turned into this flight. As others mentioned, it was on sale through Blue Holidays and it was certainly a CHOICE for those who wanted to be on this flight. It is certainly your opinion to not have chosen this flight, but if guests were looking to book to fly from Mel to Syd on the day, this flight did not show up in a general flight search on the virgin blue website.

 

[samh004]

Seeing as this thread was bumped, turns out I knew the pilot of the similar AirNZ flight to SYD this year, who was also appropriately dressed

 

[straitman]

I thought this thread had gone and died as indeed it should have :!:

 

[UP4014]

Would've been a fun flight. :mrgreen:

Mardi Gras in SYD is on my to-do list... one day...

Would have been a tedious flight.

 

[UP4014]

I love the fact that its something different, when you think that 80% of the aviation staff are made up of Gay and Lesbians anyway.

The above number of 80% is simply b/s.

Tuppaware, please provide the back up to this.

 

[samh004]

The above number of 80% is simply b/s.

Tuppaware, please provide the back up to this.

You might like to send him a PM considering the date he made that statement and the age of this thread.

 

[UP4014]

You might like to send him a PM considering the date he made that statement and the age of this thread.

Samh004, yeah, I did consider it, but 3 months didn't seem that old to me and as a statistic he claims is correct and put into the public domain thought I'd question it in public as well.

Matt

 

[samh004]

Samh004, yeah, I did consider it, but 3 months didn't seem that old to me and as a statistic he claims is correct and put into the public domain thought I'd question it in public as well.

Matt

I meant more so to alert him to the threads presence.