The U.K. airline will also provide female crew members with trousers as standard.
The U.K.-based airline Virgin Atlantic has said it will no longer require female flight attendants to wear makeup as mandatory.
Mark Anderson, Virgin Atlantic’s executive vice-president for customers, said the airline has been “listening to the views of our people.” The new guidelines are expected to “provide [the] team with more choice on how they want to express themselves at work.” In the past the chief executive of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, had stated cabin crew on rival airlines were “grandmothers.” He also claimed only a man could hold his job. Baker appears to have changed his tune, however, saying that new Qatar Airways-sponsored awards “recognizes the need for wider diversity in the workplace, not just in our airline but across the industry as a whole.”
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