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Gay News: A new Thai airline is hiring transsexual ladyboys as flight attendants.
PC Airline's ladyboy flight attendants
Ladyboys take to the skies
11 February 2011
Charter company PC Air, which will start operations in April, has recruited four ladyboys as flight attendants, alongside nineteen female and seven male attendants.
The company had initially not planned on recruiting any ladyboys as attendants but were overwhelmed by the 100 job applications they received from transvestites and transsexuals.
“Ladyboys”, or “katoeys”, are generally widely accepted in
The airline said that the qualifications demanded of the ladyboys were the same as those for female flight attendants.
However, the ladyboys also had to undergo a lengthy interview process to make sure that they walked and talked like women and had a feminine voice and the right attitude.
“When I knew that I got this job, I burst into tears because I’m very happy,” said 24-year-old Chayathisa Nakmai who had unsuccessfully sent many applications to other airlines.
Dissanai Chitpraphachin, who was crowned
“People will keep their eyes on us,” she said. “We have to prepare ourselves more than the women.”
PC Air will initially fly to
