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[paultain]

Third-sex hostesses ready for takeoff

Thai transsexuals were overjoyed as new airline P.C. Air yesterday took air hostess job applications from "third sex" candidates at Bangkok's Esplanade shopping mall.

Among the successful applicants was Miss Tiffany 2007 winner Thanyarat "Film" Jiraphatpakorn.
P.C. Air executive Peter Shan said the company had seen the potential of transsexuals to work as hostesses.

After passing the preliminary round, the transsexuals will undergo training along with female air-hostesses and will have a "third sex" name tag pinned to their uniform to avoid immigration issues, Shan explained.

The first batch of successful candidates consisted of 17 women, 10 men and three transsexuals.

Miss Tiffany 2007 winner Thanyarat, 23, said she was overjoyed to get the chance she had longed for.

"At first I thought they would just take applications but not actually recruit us, as happened at other places before," she said.

Another transsexual applicant, Panthakan Sri-ngern, 24, said she once applied for a hostess position at another airline but wasn't chosen. She said a friend who worked there later told her she was rejected because she was transsexual. She felt devastated by the discrimination.

Panthakan, who has a hospitality and tourism degree from Kasetsart University, said this time she hoped to succeed and was glad Thai society was now giving more opportunities to transsexuals.


-- The Nation 2011-01-25

[cheyenne]

About time too! Gotta love those LB's

[Beerlao]

Wonder can they organise short time loom at back of plane ????

[jcs]

coolroom, on 25 January 2011 - 02:47 PM, said:

Wonder can they organise short time loom at back of plane ????

She is "not that kind of girl"

[Robi_slo]

Good, about time we get ok service . Thai GG, although ok, are lousy as air hostesses, slow, can't be talked into upgrading anything, mostly tired from talking... Just my 5 cents.

BR

[paultain]

Yes it good to see, Thai employs some, and the rumor has it Qantas is thinking about it also..... nice to see the job market opening a bit more for them.

[SLBT]

That is good to see as I have spoken to quite a few who said they would love to be able to do a job as this... Maybe this is a good changing time then..

[bkkldby]

i recall seeing one ladyboy and a gay guy on a Nok (maybe it was Air Asia - old age again) air flight to HKT about 3 years ago. and i have seen LBs at check-in too. it would seem that gays have paved the way and hopefully the girls will be able to follow them into the career.

a good number of girls that have gone to Uni have graduated from hotel/hospitality school and now work all positions in the hotels around the country too.

Edited by bkkldby, 25 January 2011 - 10:47 PM.

[sicilio]

nice choise

[Solice]

Thought this was a joke at first, PC Air as in politically correct Air!

Good to see though and it would make an interesting start to the holiday, now all I need to do is learn Katoey Thai so the other crew dont know what we are talking about.


Solice

[jcs]

Solice, on 25 January 2011 - 10:47 PM, said:

Thought this was a joke at first, PC Air as in politically correct Air!

Good to see though and it would make an interesting start to the holiday, now all I need to do is learn Katoey Thai so the other crew dont know what we are talking about.


Solice

Are you not fluent yet? Surely Paeng has let you into the secret delights of ladyboy language skills

[nagaraka]

I thought lbs were already working as flight assistants without any kind of discrimination.