Is it acceptable to travel in shorts and sandals?

Have your friends time travelled from the 1960s?

I always travel in clothes I'd like to be wearing to escape a burning aircraft wreck. Trainers, often jeans.

Dressing up to fly is more like 60 years ago. 30 years ago we already had airlines like Ryanair and easyJet, and flying was a completely normal everyday event.

I don't get this at all. Flying is an uncomfortable, inconvenient faff with a lot of standing around waiting for things. What on earth would possess you to make it an even more uncomfortable experience? No-one cares what you're wearing.

No matter what I wear in an airport I always end up feeling gross by the time I reach my destination for some reason

You're right, they wouldn't usually choose someone with a special meal. It's rare they choose anyone though, they will go with empty premium seats instead. Upgrades are only if it benefits the airline such as an over sales issue or similar.

Your friends would hate me, I always travel in a cotton tracksuit!

Customer facing staff.... marketing/brand image trumps pretty much everything else...(and of course these days there's often a trousers option for cabin crew anyway).

For info on the odd occasion our crew used to (might still do) get the slide experience during initial training or recurrent training they put overalls on over their uniforms to protect the uniform and to help avoid slide burns.

I wear trousers because planes get cold. And seats are plastic and I don't want skin to stick!

Why on earth not?
Last year I visited Liverpool when it was 34 degrees. There is no way I would want to be sweating in trainers or other enclosed shoes at those kind of temperatures. It was flat sandals all the way.

Hoping for an upgrade is long gone! It happens occasionally but certainly not for a group.

😂

I see it as an embarrassing 'pick me for an upgrade' dance.

I mean some people enjoy the whole airport and flight experience and like to dress up for it, which is fine if that's what they want.

But if it's not, it's just bloody odd to do it in the vain hope they might get upgraded.

I am trying but failing to see why sandals are inappropriate footwear. Why?

You would lose your mind in Australia, barefoot is acceptable and quite normal.

This is like something people used to do 30 years ago 😂 It was nonsense then and it’s nonsense now.

Your mates are nuts, dressing up for the airport is not a thing. No one gets an upgrade on Easyjet…..

Then why do they make cabin crew dress the way they do?

And you took that seriously? I mean, do you approach car journeys in a similar spirit of ‘Better wear a helmet and body armour in case the airbag doesn’t deploy’?

How are you and your friends? Silk trousers are like something my Mum would wear? I go away with friends, we are all in our 50s and 40s. None of us would dream of wearing linen or silk trousers 😂

You can wear what you want, younger me in my 30's once flew in wedges and a short skirt, I have also returned home in shorts and flips flops. Last year was a dress and trainers in which the trainers got switched for flips flops to go straight to the beach. There is no world in which I would wear harem pants either. 😂

an airline pilot said to me to always travel in clothes/shoes you can run with and garments that don't melt in case of fire.

I would wear sandals on a beach, but not in a city....ever. Nothing to do with dogs, but just because they don't feel like city wear.

I’ve been to Mykonos twice & it’s hot hot hot!!
The airport is tiny & when I last went there were only 2 taxis on the rank for over 100 people queuing in the bright sunshine! I actually got sunburnt waiting.
So wear whatever you will feel coolest (temperature wise) in. I generally don’t wear shorts on a plane as I think the seats can be a bit germy.
Btw regarding beach clubs in Mykonos - when you go to a nice beach, most beaches have large areas of sunbeds & umbrellas owned by various beach bars / hotels, where you pay a fee for the sunbeds, may get towels & water included, & there will be a person serving drinks / food that you pay for separately.
Some clubs also have security to keep the beach sellers away (who can be very persistent - I have seen a seller sit on a woman’s sunbed & refuse to move until she made a purchase!). Although I feel sorry for the beach sellers as they are very poor migrants who need to make a living like everyone else, & they walk around all day in the heat making not much.
Don’t necessarily go to the first beach club you see, as the one next to it could be 10 Euros cheaper!
If you are travelling to Mykonos Town from your accommodation you could either get a bus (everyone starts queuing early but when it arrives it’s a free for all) or a taxi - but book well ahead (hopefully the taxi service has improved by now!!).
Mykonos is a really pretty island, I hope you have a great time!

The very very slight risk of having to evacuate a plane is why i always wear a bumbag on the plane, so if it happens I'll at least have our passports and my inhaler with me. And trainers because I'd hate to walk a lot in anything else anyway.

Yeah, all you get is better food and the middle seat is kept empty. Really not worth it at all, especially in a group.

A grubby airport is your line?… but you would wear sandals in the street where dog literally pee? 🙄

Silk trousers?! I have never even owned them 😂. I look crap in shorts as well to be honest and don’t own any of those either! Nothing wrong with Birkenstocks though!