Air Comet flight attendants have a creative solution to recouping the month's worth of unpaid wages they say they're owed by their employers. Specifically, they decided to strip.
The Spanish airline was grounded late last year after reeling under massive debt loads. Reuters spoke to Adriana Ricardo, one of the Air Comet workers who appears in the calendar, who said, "We are just demanding our rights to receive what is ours, we each have eight or nine months of unpaid salaries."
The airline sought to capitalize on this unexpected bonanza, and began charging passengers an extra $35 for the private showing. Some of the attendants were tipped by male passengers, as much as $250 in one instance. An airline spokesman said making the stripping attendants permanent features on all its flights was under consideration by senior management, which promised to share the additional revenue with stripping attendants who were owed back wages. One airline executive, Alfredo Cojones, who requested anonymity, said many of the company's employees were taking otherwise empty seats and flying whereever the aircraft was going. He said groping or other sexual displays by passengers and company employees alike were strictly prohibited.
An informal poll of passengers found 77% favored keeping the attendants unclothed. More than half of those polled said they would like to strip also during flights. One well-preserved and well-endowed woman, age 67, actually stirpped in the airline's main office in Madrid, in an effort to persuade the airline to go clothng optional.
The calendar has been making its way through the European media, and Reuters has a nice video on the story, not reproduced here out of naked fear.
jbo, Editor in Chief
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