Air Comet Flight Attendants Pose Nude For Calendar

[Midnight Mike]

April 5, 2010 -

Spanish airline Air Comet flight attendants posed nude for a calendar in hopes of drawing attention to their financial difficulties. Calendar excerpts have been exposed in Spanish news, the flight attendants are hoping that by posing for the calendar they will be able to draw attention to the fact that they had been working for the air carrier without being paid for the past nine months while working for the carrier.

Air Comet, formerly Air Plus Comet was an airline based in Madrid, Spain. It operated scheduled long-haul services from Madrid to 13 destinations in Central and South America, as well as services in Europe. Its main base was Terminal 1 at Madrid Barajas Airport. The airline worked together with well-known airlines such as AeroSur in a variety of codeshare agreements.

On 21 December 2009, a High Court in London affirmed a verdict favoring the German bank HSH Nordbank, which had sued Air Comet for not meeting the terms of payment for their leased aircraft. Due to the court decision the airline was unable to operate their four Airbus A330-200's, nor sell any fare tickets. As a result Air Comet announced the airline would cease operations.

Six new Airbus A330-223s that was to be delivered to Air Comet by Airbus sometime in 2010 remain at Airbus manufacturing plant in Toulouse. Negotiations are being held for the airliners to be sold to Hong Kong Airlines and the newly formed Scandinavian low-cost airline Feel Air, which is to start long-range operations in spring 2010.



http://avstop.com/news_april_2010/air_c ... lendar.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/0 ... tml#s77856

[threeholerglory]

Photo evidence or it never happened.

[Derf]

Photo evidence or it never happened.

I concur! :borat:

[mirrodie]

I read about this elsewhere as well.... Ah, off a facebook page I subsribe to.

from facebook:

Exotic Flights Flight Channel

Spanish Air Comet Flight Attendants Get Naked For Unpaid Wages

Let this be an lesson for you about the subtle differences between stodgy British sensibilities and hotblooded Mediterranean thinking. When British Airways cabin crews gamed out how to deal with a wage dispute, they tried to strike, failed to strike, tried to strike again, managed to strike, and ended up alienating pretty much everyone. When flight attendants from the now-defunct Spanish Air Comet wanted to call attention to how the airline owes them eight or nine months of back pay, they took off all their clothes, had themselves photographed as part of a racy calendar picture shoot, and made sure that their images got splashed all over Spanish newspapers and television. The Spanish public, by all reports, has proven significantly more sympathetic to the cabin crews' plight. Apparently Air Comet hasn't paid its workers something like €7 million, but that's a small sum compared to the total €160 million the airline owes to various creditors. Fearing that they would never see a Euro without public help, nine stewardesses decided to bare all in the airplane-themed calender. There are shots of them walking the aisles dressed only in hats and smiles, multiple pictures taken inside a cockpit, and at least two photos involving jet engines. The calenders are reportedly going for €15 per copy, though no one's been able to lock down exactly where you can buy one. It's being sold as part of a de facto fundraiser for the girls, though the ultimate goal is obviously to raise sympathy for Air Comet's cabin crews.
If you're a fan of this sort of public outreach, we've got good news and better news. The good news is that you can find nine of the racier pictures on the Sun's slideshow here (definitely NSFW). The better news is that the Air Comet girls seem to have started something of a trend. Flight attendants from Aer Lingus have announced their own plans to strip, this time in protest of recent staff lay-offs. The Aer Lingus report is dated today so we're going to have to source it a bit more because the Internet is functionally broken on April Fools, but the rest of the stuff—especially the mostly-to-totally naked hot Spanish stewardesses—is totally legit.

[Mayi757]

This might be shocking to most here in the US, but to the Spanish it is not.

The above says the public is sympathetic to their plight. If cabin crew here America did the same, even if they hadn't paid for 2 years... posing nude for a calendar would have the public calling them *****s and the public reaction would be the opposite lol.