Originally Posted by rigpiggy
Let's put the flight attendant through a 6week course on the a/c, and the captain thru the f/a's training and see whoo can do who's job
Rigpiggy
You should have gone a little further.
Most flight deck have spent years saving up tens of thousands of pounds to endure between 12 and 18 months of hell studying some while working a normal job and others full time.
Then put through gruelling exams and flight tests all of which cost thousands of pounds and can determine whether or not the £50,000-70,000 you've just spent was worthwhile.
Then after walking away whistling a joyful tune with a blue book in hand you then spend an indeterminate period of time applying to airlines begging to take you on so they can bend you over and enjoy watching you in pain.
Then on top of that if you dont get the job you watch as your hard earned skills set ebb away if you dont spend yet more thousands keeping them pin sharp.
Whoopee the day comes when you are taken on and you work as a team with the cabin crew. Then you realise that all the ****e you've been through in order to earn the same cash all you had to do was become a cabin crew member.
What does that mean.....well you dont find out that the colour of adrenalin is brown and found on the inside of your pants on occassion. You dont have to worry about simitus twice a year and that that little tiny blip on your ECG once or twice a year may well mean the end of your career. Etc etc etc.
Cabin crew have to keep the passengers happy.
Flightdeck have to keep the passengers happy and safe. ATC happy the company happy groundcrew happy the CAA happy Etc.
Now on the other hand i admire the cabin crew for what they do in terms of the fact that they are the face of the comapny and putting up with quite frankly some odious SLF and in this day and age ever increasingly violent passengers. But can they be equated in terms of qualifications, experience, daily challenges, split second decisions (life saving especially) and the threat to your job if things go wrong.
Did you note that one of the judges was a woman!