A newly formed Thai airline, PC Air, has become the first airline to hire transsexual flight attendants, Reuters reports.
The airline has recruited four transgender, 19 female and seven male attendants but said they want to employ more transsexual employees on their flights in the future.
The 30 qualified flight attendants were brought to PC Air office for make-up and hairdressing training session before the flight service to Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and China.
PC Air initially only wanted to recruit male and female cabin crews but received over a hundred transvestite and transsexual applications for the job - only four of which were chosen.
Despite the progressive approach to selecting staff, the President of PC Air, Peter Chan, says not all transsexuals will be considered.
It's very difficult to select the transsexual flight attendants. For male flight attendants, if I don't want to hire them, it's because of their attitude or their characters like the way they walk and smile.
For female flight attendants, if they have no patience and their character did not qualify, we won't hire them. For transsexuals, we can't just spend 5 or 10 minutes with them, we have to spend the whole day with them to make sure they have feminine characters."
But for the 24-years-old transsexual flight attendant Chayathisa Nakmai, it's a dream come true.
"I'm very happy. When I knew that I got this job, I burst into tears because I'm very happy. I had sent many applications to different airlines," Nakmai said
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