Perhaps the biggest disincentive for airlines to keep tabs of how attendants — or passengers — are sexually harassed or assaulted is that they don't have to. There is no federal law requiring them to report incidents or keep records of complaints. (Photo: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg) Perhaps the biggest disincentive for airlines to keep tabs of how attendants — or passengers — are sexually harassed or assaulted is that they don't have to. There is no federal law requiring them to report incidents or keep records of complaints. (Photo: Noriko Hayashi/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) — From Southwest's "hostesses" in the 1970s to Hooters Air to the Vietnamese budget carrier whose flight attendants were made to wear bikinis, airlines have a long history of sexualizing the role of flight attendants.

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