new QF dress regulations - social media backlash

[Deleted member]

The problem is the association between standard of dress, and behaviour. Wearing thongs automatically equals bad behaviour? It's usually the blokes in suits having loud convos on their phones or watching videos with no headphones in my experience....

That is an unfortunate truth. However I do wonder if that (behavior) is next on the hit list

 

[Deleted member 29185]

That is an unfortunate truth. However I do wonder if that (behavior) is next on the hit list

One can only hope.

 

[juddles]

As there is nothing really new in this thread I feel empowered to repeat my own ideas:

No, wearing thongs doesnt guarantee you are a hooligan. And sure there are well-dressed louts.

BUT. In my humble opinión, the choice of thongs for a flight ( and lounge access) shows a greater-than-usual tendency in the wearer to care more about their own comfort than caring about the general civility of our surroundings.

 

[JohnK]

Qantas has gone overboard to cater to some toffee nosed suited up business people.

Not all people conducting business wear stuffy suits - believe me I don't unless absolutely necessary and then I often change out before flying out.

Smart casual should be sufficient - not dirty and scruffy.

Come on Qantas, be a bit more reasonable.

Thongs have never been smart casual.

Great move by Qantas.

Next step to stop those with their feet on chairs/tables and loud conversations including those who use mobiles and think the world is interested in their lives.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thongs have never been smart casual.

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[hotanddusty]

Its about time Qantas stood up to the bozos who dominate the lounges now, turning them into a wittering hole, and yes there those that do have to continue working while waiting for a flight that do not appreciate the noise and smell that can emanate from the ones who just flown in from the mine sites that cant even be bothered to wash and change before they hit the lounge. This area is for all and all should abide by the rules.

 

[medhead]

The problem is the association between standard of dress, and behaviour. Wearing thongs automatically equals bad behaviour? It's usually the blokes in suits having loud convos on their phones or watching videos with no headphones in my experience....

Guilty. Loud convo tonight explaining factorisation of ax^2+bx+c to child via FaceTime. Luckily no suit.

 

[ComeFlyWithMe]

I for one am rather pleased that the social media backlash might send the bogans back to VA, Tiger and Jetstar where they belong

 

[Anna]

Bogan in ADL QP yesterday on flight to PER thought he was extremely clever by getting into the lounge then changing into his thongs in public view by the bar. Front desk staff did zip about it so there's one idiot who'll try that again.

 

[Zaib Naeem]

I am very happy that finally QANTAS has introduced the dress policy in it's lounges. This policy is already in place at many restaurants, lounges etc and even applied on conferences. The main reason for getting into a lounge is to spend time in a reasonably decent environment but if it looks and feels exactly the same as any other place of the airport than why bother.

 

[RooFlyer]

I am very happy that finally QANTAS has introduced the dress policy in it's lounges. This policy is already in place at many restaurants, lounges etc and even applied on conferences. The main reason for getting into a lounge is to spend time in a reasonably decent environment but if it looks and feels exactly the same as any other place of the airport than why bother.

Another first poster on this thread. Welcome. Its not a policy introduced 'in its lounges'. Only some. By implication, anything goes in all the rest.

 

[amaroo]

Another first poster on this thread. Welcome. Its not a policy introduced 'in its lounges'. Only some. By implication, anything goes in all the rest.

They're gun shy for full enforcement - probably for sound commercial reason!

 

[JessicaTam]

Maybe some of those "no shoes, no shirt, no service" signs near the front door.

 

[kyle]

I admit I'm a casual dresser - thongs, tee and shorts, but I'm courteous and I don't have bad BO. I talk softly and use tongs when picking up food. This lounge policy gives me one less reason to fly Qantas. Now, even if I gather enough points from EDR or the online points mall, I'll just redeem the QFF points on merchandise and fly VA.

I really don't understand why people care so much about what others wear. It's not like they have to make friends.

 

[OzEire]

I admit I'm a casual dresser - thongs, tee and shorts, but I'm courteous and I don't have bad BO. I talk softly and use tongs when picking up food. This lounge policy gives me one less reason to Qantas. Now, even if I gather enough points from EDR or the online points mall, I'll just redeem the QFF points on merchandise and fly VA.

I really don't understand why people care so much about what others wear. It's not like they have to make friends.

I love "to Qantas" as a verb. I am going to use that myself.


Re. your intention to purchase "merch", that will please QF Loyalty who get a much better return on your points via store redemption than for flights (and you get less value for your points).

 

[kyle]

I love "to Qantas" as a verb. I am going to use that myself.


Re. your intention to purchase "merch", that will please QF Loyalty who get a much better return on your points via store redemption than for flights (and you get less value for your points).

Fixed the omission!

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

Fixed the omission!

I liked it better the old way...

 

[Himeno]

I am very happy that finally QANTAS has introduced the dress policy in it's lounges. This policy is already in place at many restaurants, lounges etc and even applied on conferences. The main reason for getting into a lounge is to spend time in a reasonably decent environment but if it looks and feels exactly the same as any other place of the airport than why bother.

If you have an issue with what other people are wearing, they don't have a problem, you do.
What others are wearing has no impact, at all, on the lounge being a "reasonably decent environment". How people act and behave does.

 

[AVC]

Has anyone come up with the possibility that the sex worker in question may not have been wearing thongs but in actual fact a thong?

And yes, I do, even though my mode of dress 99% of the time is cargos and a t-shirt, agree with the dress standards.

If we had the attitude "who cares what other people wear" would we find it acceptable if peeps in the lounge were wearing stubbies and truckers singlets? And bare feet? I think not. You have to draw the line somewhere. It's supposed to be the Business Lounge. Not the Bogan Lounge.


edit-- PS. I like to Qantas!

 

[medhead]

Has anyone come up with the possibility that the sex worker in question may not have been wearing thongs but in actual fact a thong?

Yeah, no that hasn't been mentioned like 1000 times already. Frankly the thong is a bit of sepo BS introduced to the game by the West Indies. Everyone knows it's really a stringer.