Originally Posted by
lastmanstanding
If AKT can't supply that then its F95:
They've never been able to supply a suitable service for transit crews. It's been an important transit base for over 40 years and it's always been cr@p. With the hassle of a long multi sector AT or tanking route, then to have to spend three hours of your valueable rest sorting out niff naff and admin which should have been done before you arrive by people who can't be bothered because working spoils their three year long holiday in the sun - then the easy solution seem the best.
Once ended up at Akro on an unsheduled stop - therefore no towel. The OM couldn't provide one. Next morning, while waiting for the mess clerk to arrive so that we could pay our 14 pence mess bills (don't try leaving without paying!) for which we delayed the departure for one hour, I saw the mess suggestions book. So I wrote 'Please provoide towels for transiting aircrew. If not, please can you make the curtains more absorbant?' Earned me an interview back home!
I now work for a decent employer. Don't have these problems anymore.
p.s. Akro brandy sours are a well known flight safety hazard.