“The first of the flight attendants entered the lounge 10 minutes later - to be met by a round of mocking applause.
Another 15 minutes elapsed before the substitute pilot, Capt Simon Crook, approached the gate.
As he walked through the lounge......”
The question I have is why on earth the flight and cabin crew should have had to ‘run the gauntlet’ past their passengers in this manner? Or is this the way things have gone since the previously complacent Spam lard-ar$es woke up to security post 11 Sep and now see Reds under every bed? Why do flight and cabin crews not have segregated access to their aircraft?
If I’d seen some arrogant passenger insulting a Virgin stew prior to her having to cope with a busy cabin on a pond-hop, I think I’d have been bŁoody cross. Yes, there are ‘rights’ for passengers, but isn’t there also something called manners?
How I wish that things were as civilised as once they were. But low cost charters and the general downward drive of costs has meant that the common herd who once would have travelled 3rd class on British Railways, if at all, now think that they can behave just how they wish......................
Not that I’m a huge fan of RyanAir, but one thing I do admire them for is their very firm gate policy. It closes when it says; if some lager-swilling oaf didn’t leave the bar in time and missed the flight as a result – tough!