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Old 12th March 2005 | 13:13
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upquicker
 
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CC Primary role.

How do you see your role as cabin crew?

Primarily there for customer service

Or

Primarily there for the safety of the passengers.

Be honest. Considering at one stage in America there was over 13 million take of and landings without incident do you not think that the safety stuff is now secondary to the service side of things?

I worked on cruise ships and underwent extensive safety training pretty similar to the training given to cabin crew although by no means as intensive. I was a lifeboat commander and it was my role in an emergency to command a lifeboat, lower it and remove 140 pax from the ship safely. We were also subjected to twice weekly drills, inspections and regular safety refresher courses, dangerous goods training, bomb drills, hijack drills, smoke evacuations, etc etc and regular coast guard inspections where failure would mean the impounding of the ship. My primary role however was to fix the slot machines in the Casino while being nice to Americans and that is what I got paid for!
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