Southwest Airlines Teases New Employee Uniforms

It’s a giant day at Southwest Airways, as the corporate has supplied extra particulars about its future, from including premium and assigned seating, to introducing airline partnerships, to sustaining its coverage on free checked baggage. Whereas particulars stay restricted as of now, Southwest has supplied an early have a look at refreshed worker uniforms, which I wished to cowl on this put up.

Southwest plans worker uniform refresh

Southwest Airways has shared a number of photos of what it describes as its refreshed worker uniform program, together with sharing samples of what we are able to anticipate. We don’t have any extra particulars as of now, although you will discover the images shared by the Dallas-based airline beneath.

As some extent of comparability, beneath are what a few of Southwest’s present worker uniforms appear to be.

Southwest final refreshed its uniforms in 2017, and on the time, we noticed uniforms get new splashes of coloration, together with blue and crimson, that are two of the colours the provider most steadily makes use of in its branding.

My tackle Southwest’s new worker uniforms

As I typically say, I believe crucial factor about uniforms is that they make the folks sporting them really feel good, when it comes to consolation and satisfaction in look. In order as a non-employee who has by no means worn one in all these uniforms, I can’t communicate as to how Southwest staff really feel in regards to the present ones, or what the suggestions has been on the brand new ones.

That being mentioned, from an outsider’s perspective, I believe the brand new uniforms look fairly skilled. They give the impression of being a bit extra cohesive than the present uniforms, the place it nearly looks like totally different items belong to totally different airways.

I’ll say, the brand new uniforms do look a bit extra company, and like what we see at different airways. That’s not essentially dangerous, however Southwest has traditionally had a singular company tradition, and that has additionally largely been mirrored in worker uniforms, which have been fairly casual. For instance, the present uniforms enable flight attendants to put on shorts, which you gained’t discover at many airways.

Now, I believe Southwest’s company tradition isn’t practically as differentiated because it was again within the Herb Kelleher days, so maybe that’s simply holding onto one thing that’s now not there. I really feel like the times of the “Southwest Shuffle” are behind us.