An air stewardess who was drunk on duty during a UK-bound flight from Dubai has been sacked after blood tests found she was eight times over the drink flying limit. Stephanie Partington, 24, was arrested when her Emirates plane touched down in Birmingham after fellow cabin crew members raised the alarm over her behaviour....
It reflects the modern world by your comment that she should have phoned in sick when she was in fact pissed. Simple answer be professional and do your job, get pissed when not on duty.
Simple answer be professional and do your job, get pissed when not on duty.
Fair enough, but if the newspaper reports are correct ()she she got "pissed" when off duty.
The problem seems to be that shortly thereafter, for reasons various, she accepted a change to her roster that put her back on duty whilst well over the limit.
I miss the days when we took care of each other. Don't drink myself but if she was on my flight there would be no calling the cops.Must be a nice place to work....
According to the article she was on a rest day, and had been drinking until the early hours. She was phoned at midday and asked if she was available to crew a flight at 3pm. Surely, if she was on a rest day, she could have just said "no". She didn't need to go sick.
Not true, you be polite and inform them that you are unfit to perform the requested duty. I've done it, no bad consequences just, "okay, thank you, I'll ring the next one then" and my day off stayed the same. Crew control are adults too, they know how to deal. Just know the rules and you won't get caught out.
"8 hours" would still put her well into the GCAA limit of 12hours before a duty anyway. If in doubt, just don't do it! As someone else mentioned, be professional and don't get hammered the day before a flight, then you'll never need to worry. Last thing I feel like doing after a big night is going to work... makes me wonder about some people lol
Clearly this young lady was/is not the sharpest tool in the shed...says more about the scouse drinking culture than it does about anything else, I bet she thought she was fine
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Clearly this young lady was/is not the sharpest tool in the shed
Careful what you say Falconeasydriver. It could, theoretically be applied to you as by referring to
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the scouse drinking culture
you are merely revealing a petty, unfounded prejudice. Drinking to excess is not the sole prerogative of those who come from Liverpool. For all we know she could be a Londoner living in Liverpool. As for agreeing to do something whilst under the influence of alcohol, you only have to look at some of the reports of pranks perpetrated by persons who would not normally have agreed to participate had they been sober at the time. There is a saying you would do well to heed; "It is better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and confirm the fact beyond all doubt" and no, I'm not calling you a fool, simply pointing out that you need to think a little more carefully before putting fingers to keyboard.
Orrrrrrrr DX I MAY have had the misfortune to have worked with said individual....... Perhaps you would like to recant your observations? Let me be blunt, there is NO EXCUSE for alcohol related misadventure, this young lady showed an impressive lack of maturity, and exhibited breath taking stupidity in accepting a duty...disagree with me if you wish, but I'm one of the people that have to rely on these individuals when when I'm 207 mins from the nearest suitable airport...whether that's over the North Pole, or somewhere 1000 miles southeast of Diego Garcia....so forgive me if I'm a bit snarky about stuff.. And DX mayby you are right...maybe I am an idiot.
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I'm not excusing any alcohol related supidity, simply pointing out how she may have come to agree to work when she should have refused. I agree totally with your remarks about stupidity etc. When I was a District Midwife I could be called out any time of day or night even when not on call so made a conscious decision not to drink - it wasn't worth the consequences for all if I did. I was, however, objecting to the "Scouse drinking culture" remark. These days there is, sadly, widespread misuse of alcohol which was never confined to Liverpool. As for being an idiot - I took pains to point out that I wasn't calling you one, you made an injudicious remark which I as a person Liverpool born and bred, found objectionable. It's no fun for anyone to have to fly with someone upon whom they cannot rely. We all, passengers as well as crew, need everyone to be as fit for the task as possible.
Gone are the days when you would have a bucks fizz or a glass of wine whilst serving First Class passengers during a longhaul flight. What went on in the '4 walls' stayed in the 4 walls. There used to be trust between crew members which sadly has evaported over the years.
She clearly agreed to stand in when she wasn't capable of making the rational decision to turn it down - because she was already p1ssed; otherwise, she would have stayed sober, wouldn't she (one assumes). I do sympathise with her in her predicament, and at least she didn't do anything really stupid like try to join the Mile-High Club while under the influence!
So she is stupid because "she turned up for work drunk in a muslim country"... the logical deduction from this insight being of course that if she worked for some airline in a Christian, Buddhist or Hindu country then it would be totally fine to be pissed while at work?
Really?
I would have thought that a profession that prides itself on its role in maintaining the safety of the pax, and thus elevating itself above that of the flying waitress, would take an extremely dim view of this woman's behaviour.
I could cope with the waitress at Starbucks being pissed, but crew? Lets just imagine there was a major problem and her seat was the one nearest... What then?
This has nothing to do with the religion of the airline's domicile.
)she she got "pissed" when off duty. 
