BRITISH Airways yesterday axed a “see-through” uniform which enabled pervy passengers to leer at stewardesses.
Bosses admitted the thin blouses were a mistake — in a humiliation for designer Oswald Boateng — and are creating new ones that are 43 per cent thicker.
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Thrilled crew thanked The Sun for highlighting their “humiliating” ordeal and forcing the change.
We told how staff shared snaps of underwear clearly visible beneath their uniform.
A crew member said yesterday: “Sending stewardesses to serve boozy passengers in see-through tops wasn’t a good idea.”
Another said: “BA has seen sense, but how was this allowed to happen in the first place.”
BA yesterday told staff it had “listened to feedback” from 10,000 workers and acknowledged that “garments are underperforming.”
The climbdown has left bosses red-faced following the fanfare uniform launch in 2023.
They originally said Mr Boateng had “exhaustively researched” flight crews’ needs before unveiling the new look.
Union officials waded in after female staff threatened to down tools over the “fiasco”.
Executives initially backed down and removed stipulations on what underwear could be worn.
And the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association piled in and said: “That we even had to raise this issue at all beggars belief.”
But now bosses have ripped up the new uniform handback and ordered new blouses to end the row.
The Sun also reported how women crew were up in arms over the new BA tunic that they claimed was designed for non-binary colleagues.
Some said the new outfit, the first update in 20 years, was deliberately “androgynous”.
BA was yesterday contacted for comment.