Cabin Crew need to be fully trained in their primary role, which is saving lives. I wonder how that can be the case here given the present situation.
If an airline also owned a chain of fast food outlets and rotated its Cabin Crew between one and the other, would you be keen to fly your family on holiday with them? Would the CAA be keen to renew their AOC annually? This casual attitude to Flight Safety says a lot about the RAF, the MAA
RAF cabin crew are fully trained for the role, they receive exactly the same training as the Air Tanker civilian crew as per EASA requirements. In fact, it can be argued that post the Thales cabin crew course, the RAF then give them more training (airborne) which Air Tanker don’t give their cabin crew.
Would you want to go on holiday with an airline that posts its PILOTS to and from ground roles?? Oh but the RAF do that!!
i don’t think it’s a casual attitude to flight safety, whether you’re a pilot, NCA or cabin crew, we can all do flying tours interspersed by ground tours, no one gets back into an aircraft without the appropriate training.
Plenty of people in the civil sector have breaks in flying and return to it.