How to handle...........?

[flapsforty]

capt cynical us old fogeys don't need a lot of words to understand eachother, do we?

timmcat right on the money with the dangers of the 'Us and Them' culture. Happily it is not something oft spotted in our company. The fact that it existed at all came as a big surprise to me when I started ppruning in fact.
Only place it exists is at the extreme ends of the spectrum.
The salary difference between FAs and pilots is rather larger with us than with for example SAS or BA. This leads some FAs to feeling jealous and to stating stupid stuff as mentioned earlier.
In my country, unlike for example France and Italy, there is no licence for cabin crew. This leads some pilots to think that all FAs must be dumb and boorish.
To answer your other question, we tend to socialise freely and frequently after landing. Our culture is very wary of formality, so the informal way a young FA might speak to an old captain would most likely surprise a Brit, a Frenchman or a German.
At the same time, problems with people who fail to understand the realities of the chain of command are blessedly rare.
Our pilots are as a rule not arrogant, and our FAs are not stupid. But of course there's always the exeption. Hope this answers your questions.

SydGirlI answered your PM but apparently your mail box is full......... Anyway, to answer your questions.
I'm a woman and a flight attendant. No1/Purser/CSD or whatever you wanna call it on the 4 types of 737 our company runs.
I guess we will have to agree to differ on the 'chain of command' issue, but we can both live with that I'm sure.
As for talking to the FA concerned, thanks for recognising that it does take 'balls' to do that stuff because in our FA culture we don't like confrontational stuff do we? Don't know if it's the same where you work, but with us it's normal to bend over backwards to avoid even the smallest unpleasantness and that attitude is not always productive.....

Anyway, thanks again all for thoughts written.......