I don't think the perrone leather jacket looks fighter pilot. How if we starting wearing bags and putting patches on the jacket then your fighter pilot image would apply..
Semantics. Figher pilots wear leather, air line pilots wear blazers. Simple.
have you ever flown in an open cockpit airplane?
Nope. Have you ever flown in one in the conditions that they experienced?
that is right.. However, i don't think pilots in leather were turned away when they showed up to support another airline.
That's a red herring. You stated originally that leather should be used for formal events. Do you believe that it's appropriate to wear casual apparel like a leather jacket to a fellow pilot's funeral?
As for the picketing, I would never turn away a pilot from another airline who showed up in leather because I'm always grateful that they showed up at all, but I have told our pilots on many occasions that they need to show up in the blazer when we picket. Our SPC has taken the position that all of our pilots must look uniform in appearance while picketing, and that includes everyone wearing the blazer. We'll be picketing in MEM next month. I encourage you to show up and walk the line.... in the blazer.
It is getting more and more accepted.
The leather jackets is accepted by the pilots and the public.
These are the same arguments that the no-hat whiners use to justify their actions.