Posted on 03/17/2023 5:44:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Around 70 percent of flight attendants in Japan have reported that photos had been or likely had been taken of them surreptitiously, an aviation trade union said Thursday, calling for tougher penalties against the act.
Thirty-eight percent of respondents said their pictures had been secretly taken, while 33 percent said they were not sure but "believe" it has happened, with the combined result rising 9 percentage points from the previous survey in 2019, according to the Japan Federation of Aviation Industry Unions.
While most cabin crew reported face and full body pictures had been taken, others replied that they were "upskirted" or had their chest or behind photographed.
Twenty-nine percent said they had not been secretly photographed.
Regarding how the issue was dealt with, 57 percent said they did nothing. A smaller percentage gave the offender a verbal warning or asked for the picture to be deleted, the survey found.
Some flight attendants said they refrained from taking action because it "might offend the passenger" or that they were "afraid" to bring attention to their vulnerable position in relation to customers.
"It is a very serious issue," Akira Naito, chairman of the union association, said during a press conference. "Tougher penalties will deter" people from taking illicit photographs, he said.
The government is considering making upskirting and secretly taking pictures of genitals crimes punishable under the Penal Code.
The online survey, conducted between November and December last year, received responses from 1,573 flight attendants who belong to member unions.
Meanwhile, over half of the respondents said they were subjected to allegedly dangerous conduct. In a multiple choice question, 66 percent answered they faced "persistent complaints or reprimands" from passengers, while 54 percent had encountered people "deliberately" not wearing a mask despite antivirus rules.
Is it illegal to take their picture?
I’ve gone on vacations where I took thousands of photographs. When I was that interested in cataloging a trip, I photograph the food, the flight maps, seats, just about everything.
I haven’t taken many photos of flight crew, I’m sure I’d photograph the captain if given a chance.
What’s the big deal?
If it was secret, then how do they know?
You can say that again, cow and fags at AA.
Re: 4 - One if my friends in Japan was groped by a chikan on a train on the way to work. She kneed him so hard in the groin that she said he screamed and people looked right at him.
“Have you noticed our hats have skulls on them?”
Yeah. U.S. airlines get around this by hiring only unioninzed grannies and gays.
You want to lose half your assets and house to a cheater?
“Yeah. U.S. airlines get around this by hiring only unioninzed grannies and gays.”
Long ago I made a comment on a travel site about how Asian airlines try to please their CUSTOMERS, rather than Helen Thomas types. Boy did I get blasted.
Far friendlier here!
“Yeah. U.S. airlines get around this by hiring only unioninzed grannies and gays.”
Long ago I made a comment on a travel site about how Asian airlines try to please their CUSTOMERS, rather than Helen Thomas types. Boy did I get blasted.
Far friendlier here!
We’re here for you, man.
LOL! Thanks!
And exactly when did stewardesses in this country get so f_cking
cranky? I know it’s a tough job — there’s got to be a thousand
different ways to tie that neckerchief, but why piss on me, huh?
You know, the worst thing about it is they don’t even come clean with you
and tell you how much they hate you. They treat you with that highly
contrived air of mock civility, that tight, pursed-lip grin where they
nod agreement with everything you say.
You know right behind that face plate they barely tolerate your very existence. I’d rather they just come out in the open and say, “Hey, listen, _sshole: when I was eighteen years old, I made a horrible vocational error, all right? I
turned in my entire adult life for cheap airfare to Barbados. Now I’ve got hair with the tensile strength of Elsa Lanchester in ‘Bride of Frankenstein.’ I haven’t met Mr. Right. I’m a waitress in a bad restaurant at thirty thousand feet. Jam your Diet Slice up your _ss, all right?”
At least show me something. Come down the aisle like the
old broad in ‘From Russia with Love’ with the knife point coming out of her shoe. “Peanuts, Mr. Bond?”
-Dennis Miller
No. I just like flight attendants.
My mother was friends with Ellen Church
Just looked her up, that’s cool.
I can understand why people would want to take their pictures. Al Nippon has the best looking flight attendants in the industry.
“Hard to believe anyone would want a photo of an American stew these days.”
AA and United Airlines traded in the babes for the cows and fags years ago.
That’s what I thought too
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