The kids' stickers that landed in a storm of controversy

THEY are an innocent pair of stickers intended to be a fun accessory for children during their flight.

But these stickers, distributed by UK travel operator TUI to their young flyers, have landed in centre of a sexism controversy.

Passenger Dame Gillian Morgan, 65, a former senior Welsh government official, was on a flight from Bristol, in the United Kingdom to Paphos, Cyprus, when she saw flight attendants handing out the stickers to children on board.

The stickers came in two varieties, with one bearing the words “future captain” and on the other, “future cabin crew”.
The stickers that have landed in a storm of controversy. Picture: TUI

Dame Gillian said it upset her to see boys were being handed the “captain” stickers while the “cabin crew” stickers went to girls.

She told UK’s Metro she was “absolutely sure” the stickers were handed out according to gender.

“The stickers were gender neutral but it’s the way that they were handed out that makes it complicated,” she said.

“I was with my great-niece and my great-nephew and of the two of them, she’s going to be the pilot, he’s going to be the cabin crew.

“I just think it’s a shame. TUI were trying, I think, to do the right thing but fundamentally missed the point. There must have been a way of doing it with a bit more thought. I was quite upset by it really.”

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