Whoa!
Some pretty pissed off people out there from what I can tell
And the papers complain about falling maintenance standards, is it any wonder when the companies obviously value cabin-crew with 6 weeks training more than an engineer with 20 years experience
Tewkesbury mate I am sorry that you feel that your company values its cabin crew more than its engineers. I dont think that because they pay them more it means that they have more respect or value for their input to the succesful operation of a flight - because at the end of the day, thats what we are all contributing towards: a an aircraft full of pax and freight succesfully moving from one port to another. Engineers are very important, your job is to know basically everything there is to know about the systems of the aircraft, where as the pilots are there to make the systems all work together to create flight, the cabin crew are there to keep the pax happy and safe who pay for the flight to operate, the ground crew are there to co-ordinate the ground side of things.
Personally I have a lot of respect for our engineers, and they (most of them) in turn respect our cabin crew.
Unfortunately, you are missing the point, the whinge is not about Cabincrew, but about the broader picture of a reduction in Maintenance Standards on aircraft, which should concern even the most self centred of cabin crew as untimately no amount of money would make me feel good about flying in an aircraft maintained by an ever disilusioned bunch of engineers.
Sorry mate, but the original post did come across as being a direct attack at cabin crew, even though from what you say it was not your intention
Hey ho, tea white with please.
Royhudd get back in your hole and don't speak until spoken to, if thats the way you are going to treat others! There is such a lack of respect for each others roles in this thread its not funny.
Its not about making ourselves feel important at the expense of others!
Final point - I am not sure about UK operations etc, but in oz we have unions that negotiate our payscales for us... if that is the case in the UK as well, perhaps the BA engineers could (although I would presume they already have) broach the subject with the union?
Be happy people
