Thai gets knickers in a twist over short skirts

The producer of a sexy Thai soap opera about young air hostesses promised longer skirts and fewer catfights last night after real flight attendants complained the show was sexist and should be yanked from the airwaves.

The makers of The War of Angels, which portrays stewardesses fighting for the attention of male pilots at a fictional airline, apologised to staff at Thai Airways who said the show was demeaning.

“There won’t be any more catfight scenes between flight attendants while they are on duty or in uniform in public,” Takonkiet Viravan, managing director of production house Exact, told a news conference.

“The skirts our actresses wear are not shorter than those worn by hostesses at other international airlines. But we will make our skirts longer,” hesaid.

Airline staffers had complained that the fictional flight attendants wore too-revealing skirts cut above the knee with a front slit.

The airline’s union complained to the Culture Ministry yesterday that the prime-time show insulted its members and demanded it be dropped from an army-run television channel.

Exact said it was willing to talk to the union.

Source :Reuters