Are flight attendants allowed to be OnlyFans models? That’s the question one Delta Air Lines flight attendant took to Reddit to ask and it’s a good job they did as creating an account on the adults-only website could have landed them in a lot of trouble.
Obviously not keen to ask their own manager whether doing some adult model work as a side gig was a possibility, the flight attendant decided to create an anonymous account on the popular question-and-answer social media site to see what others thought about the idea.
The flight attendant’s reasoning for wanting to do some modelling work was certainly understandable. As a flight attendant with just three years of seniority, the crew member explains that they find the pay pretty poor and are looking for a way to top up their salary.
“In my Instagram DMs, I get asked every single day, multiple times, when I am starting an OF,” the down low Delta crew member explains. “I know that if I made one, I would definitely do well and make more and be able to help some of my family members who are financially struggling.”
“My only concern is that if my company finds out that I have one, they will fire me.”
The flight attendant goes on to ask whether other crew members have an opinion and perhaps firsthand experience that might calm her nerves.
The replies, however, confirm only one thing: If you want to keep your job, don’t do it.
Others, however, suggested that it would be possible to create an OnlyFans account but they’d have to be super careful. Obviously, they wouldn’t be able to post anything that could even potentially identify themselves as a Delta flight attendant or link their OnlyFans to any other social media that could also expose them.
Even then, however, the crew member could still find themselves in hot water if a colleague or anyone else for that matter found their OnlyFans and reported them to Delta.
After all, the Atlanta-based carrier has a famously strict social media policy, although it’s not just Delta that bans its crew members from being online models or doing anything else that might tarnish the reputation of its brand.
Back in 2018, a Delta Air Lines flight attendant was suspended and later fired after he hooked up with the now-disgraced adult film star Austin Wolf in the lavatory of one of the airline’s planes.
The flight attendant was off-duty at the time he decided to join the ‘mile high club’ but was wearing Delta uniform and was easily identifiable in a leaked video of the encounter which was posted to what was then known as Twitter.
Wolf, who faces charges of possession and distribution of child pornography following his arrest by the FBI last month, initially didn’t comment on the incident with the Delta flight attendant, but in 2020, he claimed that the crew member knew he was being filmed during their encounter.
A few days after the leaked video appeared online, Delta published a new social media policy which union chiefs feared could restrict employees from taking part in otherwise lawful activities.
The broadly written policy forbids staffers from sharing or posting “inappropriate” content or material that “has the ability to harm Delta”. In fact, the policy is interpreted so strictly that in 2022, Delta faced a lawsuit from a flight attendant who was sacked for sharing a cartoon of Donald Trump wearing a KKK hood on Facebook.
At the time, a Delta spokesperson defended its strict social media policy, saying: “When Delta employees intermix Delta’s brand with conduct or content that does not reflect our values of professionalism, inclusion and respect, that conduct can result in discipline or termination.”
