Children of employees of All Nippon Airways are dressed as pilots and pursers at Frankfurt airport in Germany on Saturday, to mark the occasion of ANA's inaugural flight on the route with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
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smithinjapan
Isn't this JAL staff? With all the cutbacks it looks like the kind of crew they'd settle for! haha. Kidding. Cute shot, save that I agree with gakuseidesu, though -- the gender discrimination turns any and all cuteness of this shot into manufactured stereotypes that should be fought against. I hope they were at least given the option of being either or. Given that in Japan flight (cabin) attendant is still among the top five job goals for young women because they "want to look cute in the uniform", I doubt the matter is being given any serious thought.
susieuk
so cute! i be happy if they had a day working on my flight but not flying it. lol
Nicky Washida
hee hee. Call me evil, but I would love to have the entire team march through the departure lounge, right up to the gate, greet the staff at the gate, nod to a few passengers and march right onto the plane - just to see what reaction they get from the passengers! Wonder how many would freak out?!
anglootaku
Cute
wtfjapan
these kids could probably fly a plane as well as a ANA pilot. LOL
Yubaru
And why is that? ANA is a multinational carrier with employees from all over the globe.
I suppose you think then that american airlines only employ American's?
Yubaru
What difference does it make? ANA like any other international airline hires people from all over the globe. I'd say your comment here is close to being racist at worst and discriminatory at best.
Nicky Washida
I was actually thinking the same thing about their passengers!
lumines
Ahhh!! so cute! ^_^
USNinJapan2
Yikes! These kids have more stripes on their sleeves than me! : O
Elbuda Mexicano
This has to be the best picture I have ever seen here on JT!! I wanna be a kid again!!
darbysan
Hope they can handle the turbulence ok
Nicky Washida
Really? I stand corrected. Except that this represents about 1.3% of ANAs total pilots (roughly 2000). At British airways there are approx. 3200 pilots of which roughly 110 are women (3.4% and with an ongoing active female pilot recruitment drive) and in America in total female commercial pilots are roughly 8200 in number, comprising 6.6% of the total number of commerical pilots.
I wont bother researching the flight attendants. I am sure you get the picture.
Serrano
Too cute!
pamelot - Har!
Blair Herron
There are 25 female pilots at ANA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOMqSRGDHq0
There are 8 male CAs at ANA.
http://news18.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/femnewsplus/1157079850/
gyouza
Well it is Frankfurt.
Nicky Washida
Agreed. But this is a Japanese airline they are representing so no surprise there.
Do look incredibly cute though!
Andrew Matthews
Isn't it a sign of growing old when the pilots seem so young?....
Gakuseidesu
Is it me or are there no female pilots? And no male pursers... Not to start a gender equality debate, they are very cute, I just find it frustrating that there still is discrimination between genders.
ppokkiya
This is probably the only time I'll ever say something like this on JT... Aaaaaah! They're so darn cute! :D
sensei258
How will their feet reach the aircraft's pedals?
paulinusa
A few of these kids aren't 100% Japanese, something I wouldn't have expected. German employees?