FASAP is against Dancing Flight Attendants Gimmick
By Aeirin Acosta on Oct 4, 2010 in Travel • 2 comments |
Filipinos are truly innovative in many ways! Last week, Cebu Pacific Airlines introduced their Dancing Flight Attendants showing the passengers how to safety fasten their seat belts and what to do in case of emergency.
Though getting more than 5 million views (and counting) in YouTube, the Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (FASAP) is against Cebu Pacific‘s dancing Flight Attendants (FAs) gimmick.
A press statement was issued by FASAP to express their concerns on people’s impression towards flight attendants turning into entertainers.
Here the full text of FASAP’s press statement:
Press Statement
4 October 2010The Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (FASAP) is deeply perturbed by the recent video spreading in the internet showing dancing flight attendants while performing the safety demonstration of the flight.
While it may look like a harmless publicity stunt to attract passengers at first glance, in the long run the stereotyping of flight attendants as entertainers will surely have a negative and sexist impact in the minds of the public, at the expense of the unwitting female-dancer-flight attendants.
In fact, the dancing flight attendants video has elicited a lot of sexist comments in the YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
This gender insensitive packaging is a throwback to the unenlightened past during the 50s and 60s when “stewardesses” were made to wear hot pants and mini-skirts to appeal to the dominantly male business travelers. To make them dance in front of passengers takes this mind-set to new lows.
This kind of practice has been abandoned by other airlines worldwide, it being discriminatory and unacceptable to modern times.
Flight attendants are safety professionals and to require them to dance in front of passengers is demeaning and undignified.
The said video does not help in FASAP‘s fight against sexism and discrimination in PAL. Flight attendants are not entertainers, they are safety professionals.
We sincerely hope the airline involved will reconsider this dancing flight attendants gimmick, for the the sake of gender sensitivity and professionalism.
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I bet majority of the members in FASAP are FAs from PAL because if you have been on a PAL flight you would wonder about the FAs who are still serving.
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