Originally Posted by
WHBM
One wonders if they are going to be paid for cabin crewing, in addition to their current role pay.
Colleague long ago got a junior management role at a major city bus company. It was standard/expected there, as they would commonly run short of drivers in the evening rush hour, or at weekends, that once they finished their day job in the office analysing revenue or whatever they would head for the garage and take a bus duty for a couple of hours, or at weekends for a full shift. This was all paid at the standard drivers' hourly rates. Apparently normal in that industry, a first thing as a management trainee was to get a bus drivers' licence.
But I don't like this "being given basic training". Surely, as BA regularly reinforces that cabin crew are there primarily for safety, it should be full training. Is breach of that not a breach of their AOC. And if you have to go through full training, why not recruit new staff and put them through the same. What happened to all the crew that used to work out of Gatwick ?
Basic I think they mean necessary.
Much of the current cabin Crew training involves other non essential things, eg learning about the brand, how to read a roster, exec club, team building excercise, sales techniques, grooming standards, personnel matter ID cards