naked hostess on airline

One of Australia’s biggest trade unions for flight attendants has said it wants to stop airlines around the world portraying air hostesses as sex objects in raunchy ad campaigns.

The Flight Attendants Association of Australia (FAAA) said its patience had snapped after a slew of risqué airline ads which it said were “demeaning” and increased the risk that air hostesses would be the victims of sexual harassment.

This type of provocative advertising using cabin crew in this light is not tolerated in Australia and should not be acceptable anywhere else,” Jo Ann Davidson, a union official, told The Australian.

She said the FAAA had felt obliged to speak out after a series of lewd airline ads from Russian airlines in particular. She singled out an ad that promoted a Russian regional airline which has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube. The ad shows four Russian air hostesses stripping before suggestively washing one of the carrier’s planes dressed in skimpy bikinis.