Stop rating flight attendants on how hot they are

We still expect a winning smile to come with our free peanuts when we fly.

A recent air travel website survey ranked the hottest airlines -- and their survey doesn't tell us anything other than people are superficial. Great, so flight attendants are overall pretty to look at. Honestly, why do we care?

The Emirates airline received an average 7.17 "attractiveness rating" based on a Trippy poll from some 2,000 rankings. United Airlines came in second in hotness with an average 6.73 rating. More than a dozen other airline flight attendants were scrutinized on that terrible 1-10 scale that all women have come to hate.

Being good looking isn't bad or anything -- these women should flaunt what they got if they want. But we need to acknowledge that flight attendants are way more than their looks. Did anyone care what the courageous 20 women (and five men) aboard the planes on 9/11 looked like, or how well their uniforms hugged their curves during those tense three minutes while Capt. Chesley Sullenberger navigated the "Miracle on the Hudson?"

The overdone trope of the hot stewardess needs to be over. Why does physical appearance still come into play in this industry? The Mad Men days of air travel are over, and now most flyers appreciate a knowledgeable, friendly, resourceful leader that can be there if things go down in the air or at least reassure you when your flight is hopelessly delayed.

Let's take a look at U.S. labor statistics. Flight attendants are more than their looks. They go to college, tend to study business and communication, and earn enough to support themselves and their families.

Also, men are part of this industry -- so we need to expand our minds to include the other gender in the inevitable next list of hot stewardess rankings. We can't just dismiss the men helping us stuff luggage in the overhead bins and dealing with the always problematic in-flight TV system.

Luckily some Instagram accounts already exist to highlight plenty of attractive men working on planes.

But even though men are a growing demographic on flight crews, plenty of social media accounts focus only the females in the industry, reducing them to just their looks. Apparently we're supposed to just let it fly.