Maybe in the 70’s and 80’s…but not so much anymore. Commercial airline pilots are thought of more as glorified taxi drivers these days. And the starting pay for pilots is around $35-40k per year. They top out at about $135-145k after many years of service. That’s about what average commercial airline pilots made in the hey day of the 70’s/80’s. So much for inflation.
FedEx and UPS pilots on the other hand top out at about $200k.
Because all the heterosexual men are busy lumberjackin’.
But that’s not the question at hand. NarmSayin originally asserted that there is discrimination involved; that would require not just that a disproportionate number of flight attendants are gay, but specifically that the people involved in hiring them specifically select gay men for the job. Discrimination would involve not just numbers but intent.
I honestly don’t have any idea whether straight men are discriminated against in hiring practices in the airline industry. I also have no idea what the anecdote in the OP about Kuala Lampur has to do with NarmSayin’s argument. Can you clarify what that was intended to illustrate?
Really? More than half?
Make that a $$ amount, and I’ll gladly take that bet with you?
No probs, it was simply to illustrate, that if the senior male crew had any say in hiring, (which they apparently dont according to fellow posters) that by hiring some men to keep them clean of discrimination laws, that if they were to ensure that the other male cabin crew they hired were gay then at the stopover partys for example like I experienced in Kuala Lumpa, their would be more flange available for them. Simple.
I hope this makes it easier for you to understand? Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any more questions.
On the one hand people are saying there is no discrimination involved, on the other hand its also been said here that many of those in charge of recruiting are gay. I would assume that gay men would favor other gay men over straight men in the same way straight men would favor their own in other industries. Yet when done in a straight environment its unnacceptable yet done where people fear to tread cos of the PC brigade nobody says a word!
I think people are saying you can’t assume discrimination. It could be that gay men or men who are perceived as gay are mainly the only ones interested in the position. I think it goes further than that because of the tradition of discrimination in that industry, but it isn’t necessarily anti-heterosexual discrimination, or discrimination at all.
So you assume that something “unacceptable” is happening because only straight people are required to comply with the law?
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Not quite sure where you are going with this. That gay men are more prepared to put up with crappy jobs? Or that gay men are somehow inferior and thus should have to suck up the shitty jobs that their straight superiors are too good for? Either way I’m not sure I like the implication.
Of course there is no way of knowing for sure. But I fly fairly often and the majority of the male flight attendants are obviously gay. Maybe it’s coincidence.
Hmmmm? Where has that been said?
Thats correct, until obviously a brave soul like myself is prepared to come forward and speak up.
There ya go! 
I really don’t think it’s discrimination. I think that most straight men wouldn’t want a job associated with predominately women and gay men.
Then its our duty to break these stereotypes.
Why? What’s wrong if a certain job mostly attracts women and gay men?
Feel free to not opt in.
What’s next? Busting the barrier for Hooter’s servers?
I won’t be. But why do you care? Were you passed over for a flight attendant job that went to a gay dude?
Non comprende…Busting the barrier? Hooters servers? My IT knowledge isnt the best.