Originally Posted by
Juud
CD, your answer leaves me even more mystified, as you appear to have known the answer from the start?
Actually, I did know the answer, but I'm not the one who asked the original question...
Originally Posted by
Juud
Also, there is a rumour floating about that some airlines are cinsidering training 2 different types of cabin crew for LH. Fully SEP qualified to make up the MinReqCC numbers, and service-only; trained to flesh out the rest for service purposes.
Interestingly enough, this is one of the elements that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada was investigating in relation to the AF A340 accident at Toronto, where 3 of the 10 cabin crew members were supplemental and were not qualified on the A340 aircraft:
See the file called Air France Accident in Toronto Aircraft Cabin Safety Symposium, February 2006